Sounds of our Shores: Recent Episodes
Sounds of our Shores
What does the UK coastline sound like during the summer of 2015? What are the distinctive sounds of Scottish estuaries, Cornish beaches, the Pembrokeshire coast or a busy seafront? In what ways do these sounds fascinate us, move us or seem important to us?
Sounds of our Shores is a community-led, interactive soundmap which asks members of the public to upload their favourite seaside sounds and help build a permanent digital resource of UK coastal recordings.
This coastal soundmap project, organised by the British Library, the National Trust, the National Trust for Scotland and audioBoom Ltd, co-incides with the 50th anniversary of the National Trust Neptune Coastline Campaign. Launched in May 1965 the Trust now owns 775 miles of in England, Wales and Northern Ireland Including the White Cliffs of Dover, much of Gower in south Wales and the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland.
Sounds of our Shores is about the whole coastline of the UK. It could be the sounds of a seabird colony, the sounds of a popular seaside resort or the sounds of one of our busy ports. We want to gather as many sounds as possible to reflect the diversity of the coastline and the important role that it plays in our lives.
Produced by Martyn Ware (founder member of Human League and Heaven 17) this is an edited version of the full 'Sea Inside Us All' soundscape (which includes Gabriel Ware’s beautiful orchestral compositions). Martyn used some of the 'sounds of our shores' (a collaboration between the National Trust, British Library and National Trust for Scotland) uploaded by members of the public during the summer of 2015 to create this cinema for the mind. You can download the full version of the soundscape for free via: https://soundcloud.com/martynware/sea-inside-us-all-020316 You can visit the sound map via http://www.bl.uk/sounds-of-our-shores #shoresounds
This coastal soundscape by Martyn Ware is cinema for the mind. Using sounds submitted as part of the 'sounds of our shore' project in 2015 (a partnership between the National Trust, British Library and National Trust for Scotland - http://www.bl.uk/sounds-of-our-shores) Martyn has created a rich sonic journey around the 10,800 miles of the UK coastline #shoresounds. The soundscape includes Gabriel Ware’s beautiful orchestral compositions. You can download the soundscape for free via: https://soundcloud.com/martynware/sea-inside-us-all-020316 The full running order of sounds that feature is: 0.01 introduction 0.15 clifftop and waves 2.41 music/ punch and judy 4.09 music /description of childhood sounds 5.11 beach fun/music/blackpool 7.38 amusements 7.59 fishing village 10.47 equipment clunking 11.43 rain starts/wind/bells/ sirens/thunder/ghost train/ 17.44 boat engines/gulls 20.18 waves/shingle/gulls/wind 23.21 seaside steam train 25.11 fishermen singing in wind 27.11 crickets/on board creaking moored boat/sploshing 28.33 caledonian ferry 29.35 music/heavy waves at sea 30.45 music/ kids screaming 31.43 airshow 32.21 walk on shingle beach 32.51 distant waves/bird watcher 33.52 fisherman describes fish types 35.19 birds and rockpools 39.14 lifeguard 40.11 birds/waves/shingle beach/rain 42.34 walking on shingle/seaside competition 44.32 waves/fiddle palying 45.29 cornish folk singing on boat 46.26 pebble beach/throwing pebbles/quiet time 47.54 distant waves/birds/rockpool 50.04 cream tea/café 51.52 music/describing seaweeds 53.43 music/dramatic waves 54.14 dramatic seascape/music 54.4 weather forecast for sailors fastpoint 56.38 clunking ghost train 57.47 amusements 1.00.01 boat trip bird watching 1.01.40 calm sea at night shingle beach 1.05.35 family at seaside/steam train passing 1.09.11 morris dancers 1.10.20 heavy waves at night 1.12.30 …with music 1.14.38 flyby at seaside - airshow 1.15.38 music/close waves 1.20.06 2nd music piece/baby singing/family on beach 1.21.10 outro/ coda
Messing around on a 1950s Eddystone radio in the Lizard Wireless Station, where Marconi received the first ship-to-shore SOS radio signal in 1901. Enjoying the synth-like bleeps, whirrs and sweeps, burbling rhythms, gritty static, and robotic-sounding snippets of German radio. #shoresounds
Walking down the last bit of the hill to the shoreline at Church Cove. Recorded in surround sound - big waterfalls on the left and right hand side, with the crashing sea directly ahead (envelops you when listening on headphones) #shoresounds.
Wind and waves on the small rocky beach at Housel Bay Cove, near high tide in the evening. #shoresounds
Serpentine rock - found exclusively here in all of England - is turned on a lathe by PL Casley & Son, who work the dark green mottled rock (that possibly gave Lizard its name) into a variety of ornaments. You can hear the rhythm morph as a rough block of rock gets gradually smoother, and then the cycle starts again when he moves on to the next section of the rock. #shoresounds
A brief clip of Keith Matthew of the Marconi Centre, Poldhu, Cornwall, scanning the airwaves using a mast on the same spot as the one Guglielmo Marconi used to transmit the first radio signal across the Atlantic in 1912. Nice towards the end as a slow morse signal merges with an Italian radio voice. #shoresounds
Ducking behind a stone wall to escape the wind, and stumbling across this grasshopper at the edge of a field near Caerthillian Cove - recorded from a few inches away. The distant seabird's rhythm syncopates nicely. #shoresounds
The wind before the storm, whistling through the grass outside the Lizard Wireless Station, Cornwall, at 2am. #shoresounds
A heavy storm rattles Marconi's radio huts - recorded from inside with the windows shut, unable to sleep through it in the middle of the night. #shoresounds
Three blasts (bleeps) at 30-second intervals, of the new electronic fog horn at Lizard Lighthouse, Cornwall - recorded from outside the Lizard Wireless Station half a mile away, in the evening rain. Nice reverberation of the tone around the coastline. #shoresounds
A tinkling stream, a little inland from Caerthillian Cove on the Lizard Peninsula. #shoresounds
National Coastwatch Institution volunteer Tony Pickett broadcasts the weather forecast from Bass Point NCI watchpoint in a force 5 wind. #shoresounds
A close-up recording of a wave coming crashing up through the rocks at Housel Bay Cove, and slowly trickling away again. #shoresounds
Lizard Wireless Station volunteer John Davies taps out morse code in Marconi's old radio hut (with the spark-gap system turned off). #shoresounds
Recorded Aug 2015 by ChangingViews ltd. nr Kuggar village, Lizard peninsula, Cornwall. #shoresounds
The audio was recorded at the 'wet end' of Wightlink Ferries' Ryde Pier and onboard the ferry in the photo. Crewman Gary Watt made the first announcement. Ryde Pier is 201 years old, 680 metres long and still used everyday by thousands of passengers heading to and from Portsmouth Harbour, who arrive on foot, by car and by train. We reckon it's the oldest 'working' pier in the UK and it’s a grade 2 listed structure. Recorded at 18:15pm 22/09/using a PMD620 Marantz audio recorder and a Sennheiser microphone.
The rhythmical chirps of the grasshopper, with the gentle clink of fishing rods on the railings, with a bee passing by towards the end #shoresounds
Customers chatting at the Beach House cafe on South Milton Sands in South Devon #shoresounds
It is September 20th. As the fog begins to lift I move from the main beach at Milford-on-Sea to the nearby exposed mud flats by Saltgrass Lane where the sea often washes over the road. There is a trickle of sounds and movement as birds begin to feed. undisturbed by early walkers.. #shoresounds
It was ghostly as the fog lurked over the beach as the sea washed over the rocks and shingle. A rock pipit cried quietly and a common sandpiper flew silently by. #shoresounds
Song of footsteps on #Harwich shore. #Essex. Recorded in August 2015, walking over the great mix of shells and little rounded pebbles on the shores of Harich town on high tide.
Shoreham Harbour, West Sussex: the alarm rings to close the pedestrian swing bridge, the lock fills while a fishing boat waits, then opens when full to allow the boat out, and the pedestrian swing bridge re-opens to allow people to cross. The whole process takes around 13 minutes; this is edited "highlights". Recorded by Melita Dennett, Brighton.
Song of little waves washing up at #Harwich beach, #Essex. Little hidden beach in Harwich with view of the #StenaLine ship leaving for Holland - recorded in August 2015
Sound of seagull flying over Harwich beach, #Essex. Recorded in August 2015, looking toward #Harwich old town standing far out on the spit at very low tide.
Sound of shingles and shells being washed by waves at #Harwich beach, Essex - August 2015.
Sound of waters between Felixstowe and Harwich, Essex - taken at low tide out on the Harwich spit, August 2015
shoresounds #Devon - Some heavy rainfall on 24. July 15 made us seek shelter at Overbeck's greenhouse. This is what it sounded like.
shoresounds #Devon #Brixham - Recorded on a rainy morning on 24. July 15 from a house overlooking the harbour.
A glorious sunny morning; waves lapping against the harbour wall and rocks with the sound of a boat leaving #shoresounds
The banging in of the pegs for the windbreak on Hope Cove beach in South Devon #shoresounds
shoresounds #Devon Right before the trains disappear into a tunnel, there's a bridge. This is what it sounds underneath. Recorded 28. July 15, in the evening.
shoresounds #Devon While waves are crashing, two trains meet. Recorded 28. July 15, in the evening.
The crunching of stones on the seafront near the Lake Grounds in Portishead #shoresounds
Impression #Weston #Beach near #Sidmouth #Devon #sea: a little bit windy but calm & sound of walking - summer 22/06/2015 #NationalTrust area #shoresounds
Impression #Weston #Beach near #Sidmouth #Devon #sea: a little bit windy but calm - summer 22/06/2015 #NationalTrust area #shoresounds
shoresounds A noisy flock of starlings in trees at Reculver Country Park on 3 August 2015
shoresounds gentle waves breaking on reculver beach with nesting sand martins in the background
shoresounds @richardpovall @ArtsEcology Recording on same day (17 Sept 2015) taken from a rock butting out into the sea. It's just past high tide and you can hear the sea on both sides of the rock behaving differently.
shoresounds @richardpovall @ArtsEcology A beautiful morning in Start Bay just after high tide. Gentle surf flowing right to left with current.
Beesands on a stormy late summer day. Early September brought wild winds and weather to Start Bay #shoresounds @richardpovall @ArtsEcology
Waves lapping on to the large boulders along the seafront at Beesands in south Devon #shoresounds
Right in the heart of St Ives where Barbara Hepworth used to work; with the seagulls dominating the soundscape #shoresounds
A sunny and slightly windy day with the waves crashing on the boulders on Porthleven beach in south Cornwall #shoresounds
The sounds of the lovely little harbour of Porthleven on the south Cornish coast #shoresounds
All fired up, the pump is doing its job in the engine house at Levant on the stunning north Cornish coast #shoresounds
Scalby Mills to Peasholm Park ... open lavaliers clipped to baseball cap ... #shoresounds ...
The amazing cacophony of seabirds breeding on the dramatic cliffs #shoresounds Recorded using a Panasonic Lumix GF6 Camera at St Abb's Head National Nature Reserve
Recording from inside a coastal cave, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, 9 September 2015. The recording starts with a tractor pulling an ice cream van along the beach. #shoresounds
Gull colony ... with oystercatchers ... and passing ship with foghorn ... or is it turning right ..? 2014y04m01 ... #shoresounds ...
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People chat on a sunny September Sunday afternoon.
Recorded on a Tascam DR-40.
Location: Earnse Bay, Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. 54° 7'7.97"N, 3°16'15.67"W
Belpers Lagoon ... 2002y03m25 ... Canada geese ... oystercatchers ... herring gulls ... avocet ... et al ... #shoresounds ...
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Walking along the beach at Cleadale, listening to the interesting sounds of the quartz beach.
Gannets flying and diving around the cliffs of Noss, Shetland
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A working engine house with all of the sounds of heavy industry that was dotted along the Cornish coast #shoresounds
Lucas Collins trying out the rock breaking technique used at Levant Tin Mine on the north Cornish coast #shoresounds
Using one of the hammers to break rock at this tin mine on the north Cornish coast - sounds supplied by Eve Collins #shoresounds
Sunday Morning on the 10 August as the bells ring out at St la's Church for morning service in St Ives #shoresounds
Young people from Torbay broadcast on the beach one day as part of their FM broadcast this year. They collected sounds , had live music performances and interviewed locals #shoresounds
This was recorded on a scenic and naval harbour cruise in Plymouth, courtesy of Sound and Tamar Cruising
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The sound of the engine as passengers board the ferry from East Cowes to Southampton #shoresounds
Announcement on the Red Funnel Ferry as the ferry arrives in East Cowes on the Isle of wight #shoresounds
shoresounds at sunrise over Linidisfarne Castle, Holy Island UK, 13th August 2015, 657am.
Recording of Felixstowe port using a stereo pair of SE1a condenser microphones into my Edirol audio recorder. #Felixstowe #ambience #rycote #stereopair #SE1a #Edirol #soundsofourshores #shoresounds
Facing the Atlantic a mountain stream tumbles 50 feet down rock face at the back of a small geo before hitting the shore below. Recorded with an Olympus LS100 recorder. Location 58.088150, -7.100923
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Looking west into the Atlantic the bay of Camas Mol Linnis is at the end of the road. At low tide and in a high pressure weather system the ocean laps gently against the rocks in the middle of the bay and roll along a narrow inlet. Recorded with an Olympus LS100 recorder. Location 58.097909, -7.106535
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At the western edge of the Isle of Lewis the Mangersta Radio Station sits less then 50 meters from the sea. Its imposing mast has various sizes of girders that support the aerials and each has a subtly different tone, though all are variations on a bass drone – with some tinkling from the barbed wire that deters overly ambitious climbers. Recorded with a Sound Devices 702T recorder and a jrf contact microphone. Location 58.186221, -7.099287
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The east end of Loch Ceann Hùlabhaig on the Isle of Lewis is about five miles from the open sea. By the time the sea reach the far corners of the loch it has lost much of its wilder energy and the tides become a silent advance and retreat. Under these circumstances the sounds of a loch side walk are of the wind, flushed waders and footfall on the changing lochside shore – wet seaweed, grass, stones and boulders –there is no hint of the rhythm of the sea. Recorded with a Sound Devices 702T recorder and two DPA 4060 microphones in a Rycote windjammer. Location 58.185899, -6.714926
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The ‘Isle of Lewis’ is the ferry doing the Stornaway to Ullapool run and approaches the new dock. Its wake washes the shore as it slows, spins, reverses into its berth and then lowers its rear door for disembarkation to start. Recorded with a Sound Devices 702T recorder and two DPA 4060 microphones in a Rycote windjammer. Location 57.894891, -5.160029
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Announcement on board the ferry between Southampton and East Cowes on the Isle of Wight #shoresounds
Parked up in the Red Funnel Car Park, waiting to board the ferry to East Cowes on the Isle of Wight
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Walking around Cooden Beach on a very calm evening. The train track runs along right next to the beach. Listen with computer speakers and your head centered between them for an extra wide stereo effect #shoresounds
Seabird cliff colony including gannets, guillemots and razorbills. #seabirds #orkney #shoresounds
Going down ... open lavalier mics clipped to baseball cap ... 2015y09m04 ... love the reverb ... echo ... decay ..? on the 'doors closing' at bottom of shaft ... #shoresounds ...
Recording of the breakers on the beach made with a Sony MP3 player, lunchtime on Saturday 29 August 2015. #shoresounds, #beach, #HengistburyHead, #Dorset, #Bournemouth
Recording of Felixstowe port on a cold sunday evening, November 2014.
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Sounds from inside the Lyme Regis coastal aquarium - listen out 20 seconds in for the shoaling mullet breaking the surface next to the sound recorder
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Sounds of people searching for fossils in and around the rocks, Black Ven, Lyme Regis
By this evocative and large steel structure is an information board ... many people stop and read this ... so we did ... at 03:20 we got dumped on by a rather large wave ...#shoresounds
This is the last Foghorn Blast from Souter Lighthouse on the North East Coast near Sunderland. The Foghorn is no longer in use.
Hell Bay on Bryher is a place in the Isles of Scilly that gets battered by storms that travel freely across the Atlantic Ocean. Due to it's location there is nothing in the path of these storms, all the way across to the eastern seabord of the US. I was here on a calm August day, and you can get an idea as to how rough this place could be based on this recording being a calm day. The power of the sea there is awe-inspiring. Location 49.957205N, 6.360233W Recorded on Zoom H5n with x-y mics.
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shoresounds For the last few years every time I visit my mother in Musselburgh, East Lothian, I join her in her daily routine of walking her brother's dog Nell along the shore. It has become part of our tradition. This is 60 seconds of iPhone recorded audio on a windy Friday 28th August as we crunch over the shells (including mussels) of the sea shore towards the harbour with Nell in tow.
Recorded during a trip on the fleet observer, a clear bottomed boat giving tours around the fleet, Chesil Beach, in Dorset
Waves on the pebble beach. Listen for the sound of the pebbles being sucked back as the waves recede. 29th July 2015
A small boat enters the outer gate and stops in the lock. The hydraulics kick in and close the gate behind it. The Marina is built around the historic Albert Edward Dock, situated close to the River Tyne entrance. The audio is taken from a Ricoh WG-M1 action camera using "Audacity" an open source audio editing software. #shoresounds
shoresounds #SoundsOfOurShores Waves crashing onto a pebble beach, recorded at Trebah Garden, Cornwall. Recorded near rocks to create a natural reverb. You can also hear a speedboat and me walking away from/back to the recorder. Recorded in WAV format on a Zoom H1 handheld recorder. Only editing: crop/fade-in/fade-out. No effects.
Billed as one of the most exhilarating walks in Northern Ireland, the newly restored Gobbins path walk is an absolute must-see for bird lovers. The walk takes you along steel bridges and paths, attached to the side of sheer cliffs, and into caves and over crashing waves. Nesting puffins, kittiwakes, razorbills and guillemots can be seen as you pick your way over the path, while the waves crash and roar beneath you. Not for the faint hearted!
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Billed as one of the most exhilarating walks in Northern Ireland, the newly restored Gobbins path walk is an absolute must-see for bird lovers. The walk takes you along steel bridges and paths, attached to the side of sheer cliffs, and into caves and over crashing waves. Nesting puffins, kittiwakes, razorbills and guillemots can be seen as you pick your way over the path, while the waves crash and roar beneath you. Not for the faint hearted!
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Billed as one of the most exhilarating walks in Northern Ireland, the newly restored Gobbins path walk is an absolute must-see for bird lovers. The walk takes you along steel bridges and paths, attached to the side of sheer cliffs, and into caves and over crashing waves. Nesting puffins, kittiwakes, razorbills and guillemots can be seen as you pick your way over the path, while the waves crash and roar beneath you. Not for the faint hearted!
Restored and returned to Belfast, the Nomadic ferried passengers from Cherbourg to Titanic, before her doomed maiden voyage. Walking over her rusted decks, resting as she is in the slipway adjacent to the Titanic museum, she seems to be at home in the Belfast docks.
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‘She was fine when she left here’ – the immortal quote that reflects the dark humour of the Northern Irish towards the ill-fated Titanic. The slipways and drawing rooms which once birthed this famous ship now ring to the sound of international voices, as tourists flock from around the world to visit the biggest Titanic exhibition and museum in the world.
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Restored and returned to Belfast, the Nomadic ferried passengers from Cherbourg to Titanic, before her doomed maiden voyage. Walking over her rusted decks, resting as she is in the slipway adjacent to the Titanic museum, she seems to be at home in the Belfast docks.
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Restored and returned to Belfast, the Nomadic ferried passengers from Cherbourg to Titanic, before her doomed maiden voyage. Walking over her rusted decks, resting as she is in the slipway adjacent to the Titanic museum, she seems to be at home in the Belfast docks.
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The once busy and bustling Belfast docks have fallen silent in recent years, as shipbuilding - such a proud tradition of this city, moved to other ports around the world. But in this post-industrial landscape, the wind moves through the wild grasses and seabirds circle and call, yet in the background, the low hum of machinery suggests the docks are not entirely asleep.
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Friday 28th August 2015 16.00hrs. Recorded on a Sony TX50 dictaphone on interview setting. Photo taken Samsung Note3
As the year turns, terns gather on the shore before their long journey south. A small flock of adult and young Common Tern, plus the rare Roseate Tern, on the shore at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. 28th August 2015 #shoresounds
An age-old industry: every day this man & his tractor go along the North beach gathering sea coal, which can still wash up a foot deep here. Shorebirds (including a rare Roseate Tern) fly off. 28th August 2015 #shoresounds
A walk along the beach with pebbles crunching under foot and the sound of the waves running sideways along the shore line fizzing through the fine pebbles. A constant roar of the waves can be heard in the distance adding drama to what was actually a very calm day. I used a 'Tascam DR-07 mkII' digital recorder with a "Wind cut' (dead cat) microphone cover.
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Up against the easternmost stone groyne on Sidmouth seafront the beach pebbles are bigger - large enough to make a hissing, clicking sound as the waves wash back off the beach. Location 50.678540, -3.234805 SD702T recorder, two DPA4060 microphones mounted binaurally (best listened to with headphones), Rycote Lavalier windjammers.
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A Sunday afternoon walk along the sea front at Sidmouth. Walking east I move in and out of snatches of conversation from promenaders with intermittent traffic on The Esplanade to my left and the constant wash of the sea to my right.
Location 50.678180, -3.237270
SD702T recorder, two DPA4060 microphones mounted binaurally (best listened to with headphones), Rycote Lavalier windjammers.
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It may be green energy but it's certainly not quiet energy. All the sound here is from the turbine (apart from the gulls and pied wagtail). Force 4 wind. The turbine is an REpower 3.4M104, with a 76m hub height. 28th August 2015 #shoresounds
Recorded Fisherrow Harbour, Musselburgh on a windy day, Thursday 27th August. Visited with my mother, whose father and brother were fishermen (as were other family members going back generations). So the harbour featured large in her family's life. Once a working harbour and the heart of the community, it is now mainly filled with leisure craft. Good to be able to mark the historical significance of this coastal town.
The final appearance of an icon, Avro Vulcan B2 XH558. Will always think of her when I'm at the seaside.
Recorded using a Zoom Q2HD recorder on a windy day in Hampshire.
The exact location of this recording is as follows: - Latitude: 50.7203 - Longitude: -1.5884
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Recorded using a Zoom Q2HD recorder in Gloucestershire.
The location of this recording is as follows: - Latitude: 51º 43'N - Longitude: 02º 30'W
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Recorded using a Zoom Q2HD recorder in Kent.
The exact location of this recording is as follows: - Latitude: 51.3564 - Longitude: 1.4431
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Recorded using a Zoom Q2HD on a windy day in Yorkshire.
Exact location of the recording is as follows: - Latitude: 54.0797 - Longitude: -0.1865
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Contact microphone on the top metal rail of Churchill Barrier number 3. The wind vibrates the rail, you can hear the cars going across, plants knocking on barrier in the wind and the expansion and contraction of the rail. #Orkney #soundsoftheshore
Feisty waves made for a great time for the kids running and out of the sea
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Footsteps on the shingle. Recorded on Sunday 23rd August at 5pm. The Leas, Sheerness (Isle of Sheppey) #shoresounds
Recorded in the grounds of Trevarthian House opposite Marazion beach, Mounts Bay, Cornwall. #shoresounds
Boat ride from St Michael's Mount to Castle Rock, Marazion, Cornwall. #stmichaelsmount #marazion #cornwall
The National Firework championships, recorded from Jenny Cliff, Plymouth, August 2015 #shoresounds
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The Twister aerobatics display team performing over Plymouth Sound, prior to the National Firework championships, August 2015
Walking on the coast path, listening to the sounds of the fuel depot, with the sea to our right.
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An evening walk along the coast path, overlooking Mount Batten and the breakwater
A walk around the beach at Pevensey Bay near Eastbourne. Starting next to the sea, and then walking along a bit before heading back to the car park.
A walk along the longest pier in Wales from sea to shore on a busy summer's day. GPS 53.331505, -3.825059 #shoresounds
Sound of the cables and tramcar 6 'St Seiriol' as Britain's only funicular street tramway climbs from the Halfway station to the summit of Great Orme in North Wales, as it has done since 1903. GPS 53.331529, -3.848170 #shoresounds
Trywn Du Lighthouse - a little gem on the 125 mile Isle of Anglesey Coastal Path - part of the stunning and extremely varied 870 mile/1400km coast path around Wales.
With lots of visitors milling around this viewpoint, you can hear the fog bell signal every 30 seconds...one of which you can hear at the end of this audio snippet!
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Red arrows on Eastbourne seafront. Listen with your head centered between 2 speakers placed in front of you to enjoy the wide stereo built into the recording.
With the tide flooding I walked along the beach, through the shallows of the incoming tide recording as I went - occasional footfall and approaching waves. Thanks to Patrick Grimshaw for the photograph.
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Location 55.415245, -1.577433 Equipment: SD702T recorder, DPA4060 microphone pair, Rycote Windjammer.
shoresounds Sounds of the flagpole of the Jennycliff Cafe knocking on a windy August day
Waves gently breaking and moving through the shingle, Batten Bay, just outside Plymouth, August 2015
This was recorded looking out towards Bovisand on a blustery day in August - you can hear the seagulls and the wind as it whips over the cliffs
Since the 2013 storms, the path to the beach at Jennycliff has been blocked off. We recorded the waves and wind on a blustery day in August - you can hear the wind banging the metal fence, overlooking the sea
Sounds of the customers and staff inside the Jennycliff cafe on a blustery day in August
Family launching boat with Tractor, Wonwell Beach, South Hams, Devon, at 8.30am on a beautiful August morning.#shoresounds #water
Recording of sounds at Lee Abbey beach, North Devon, August 2015, for Sounds of our Shores.
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A lovely warm August day at Wells-next-the-sea, just in front of the beach huts. Paddling, swimming, messing about in inflatable boats, rounders, cricket, mucking about in the sand, building castles, sun-bathing, picnics and flying kites. The perfect day on a beach. #Binaural #UseHeadphones #CocktailPartyEffect
This recording was made using a hydrophone, placed in the path of small stream running over Daymer Bay and into the sea. Grains of sand washed over the hydrophone by the flow of water, slowly cover the soundscape in silence. Further up the beach a small group of children build a dam across the stream, slowing down the rolling river of silica. Suddenly the dam is broken and a rush of water floods down stream, briefly and noisily unearthing the hydrophone. As the sand accumulates the bay is slowly buried in another tide of silence.
shoresounds, #Daymer Bay, #Cornwall, England
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Working up some courage to go swimming with our intrepid God-daughter. Recorded with binaural microphones to Microtrack II at Hope Cove (SX674396)
Recorded in the early 1980's using a Sony portable cassette recorder (TCD/5M) and a Sony ECM99 stereo electret microphone.
Brancaster Harbour. A National Trust site. A lovely sunny August morning with a gentle breeze, families arriving for a day messing about on the beach and in boats and the ever present sound of military jets flying overhead. Low tide - allowing people to wade over to their boats and the beach. #binaural Best with headphones, OK with loudspeakers.
I had walked the 4 miles along the sand and shingle spit to reach Blakeney Point the previous evening. I had intended to spend the night observing the Perseid meteor shower. Unfortunately, a large bank of cloud hung over the north eastern skies all night so no meteors were seen. A nice warm National Trust bird hide provided shelter with extensive views out to the north - it even had a carpet! The morning sunrise was spectacular and I made this recording with my binaural dummy head just as the sun was rising at about 5:30am before the long walk back to the car park. Like all binaural recordings - it's best listened to via headphones but seems to sound OK via speakers too.
Recorded by Martin Prothero for the Heritage Lottery Funded, Lynmouth Pavilion Project hosted by Exmoor National Park
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Children rockpooling on Broadsands beach, Torbay, with the Paignton to Kingswear steam train passing.
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Early Sunday morning in August with distant Herring Gulls and a fishing boat starting up and approaching across the harbour.
The wind was blowing in the rigging of the yachts moored close to the Green Bank as little waves splashed the stone steps in Falmouth Harbour, May this year
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A steam train climbs up Goodrington Bank, whilst children play on the beach with the waves quietly breaking on the shore. A perfect combination of sand, sea and steam.
Facing the breakwater with open sea on the right and boats in harbour on the left
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This recording was made from inside Bant's Carn tomb at sunrise in late May. An early Bronze age burial chamber which can be found on St Mary's, one of the Isles of Scilly. #shoresounds #islesofscilly
Adults and juveniles calling from colony and in flight in the early morning. Sounds of waves crashing on the shore in background. #shoresounds Recorded by Alan Burbidge
Adults and juveniles calling from rooftops in the early morning #shoresounds Recorded by Alan Burbidge
Atmos of people on a sunny day at the the beach at Bawdsey in the midsummer school holidays. Binaural recording
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Motorboat pulls away, sound of kids in the background, then the passenger ferry from Felixstowe Ferry comes in, background of waves and gulls. Binaural recording
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Artist and sculptor Maggi Hambling talks to me about why the sea is such an inspiration to her and artists and composers through the ages as part of the #ShoreSounds project Aldeburgh Beach, Suffolk.
The Sound Of Oban Harbour 24/07/2015
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Recorded with Zoom H1 Handy Recorder Recorded at Oban Harbour PA34 4LE on Friday 24/07/15
Shelducks congregated on the tractor shed roof ... disturbed them ... then just followed them as they circled ... 2009y06m14 ... #shoresounds ...
The hubbub inside the always busy Treyarnon Bay beach shop situated in a converted hut on the edge of the car park.
Seabirds chattering at the old lifeboat station on Hilbre, dead calm low water. High overhead, planes are on approach to Manchester Airport. Audio Technica AT8022, Rycote blimp, Tascam DR60D-mkII. GPS 53.3841667,-3.2286111. 08-08-2015 #shoresounds
Just south of Beadnell Village the Long Nanny drains into the bay. A mixed flock of terns was resting by the tideline in between being flushed by walkers. Recorded with Sound Devices 702T; DPA4060 microphone mounted in a parabolic reflector. Location NU 232 275
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Recording made over the harbour wall in Mullion, Cornwall while the Breakfast team set up a live show from the harbour #shoresounds bbc.co.uk/radio3/breakfast
Petroc Trelawny presents the Radio 3 Breakfast show live from Mullion harbour on 31st July 2015 #shoresounds bbc.co.uk/radio3/breakfast
The sound of reeds blowing in the wind near a viewing platform at Bowling Green Marsh on the Exe estuary #shoresounds #Devon
The sounds inside and out of the Bowling Green Marsh Bird Hide; a fantastic spot with lots of wading birds. You can just hear the sound of a train travelling from Exmouth to Exeter #shoresounds #Devon #birds
A flag pole flapping in the breeze on the Exe estuary; such a re-assuring sound #shoresounds #Devon
Waves gently lapping a little beach on the edge of Goat Walk in Topsham #shoresounds #waves #Devon
Came across this painter and decorator painting the wall of a lovely old cottage on the Exe estuary with bitumen to help waterproof the walls #shoresounds #Devon
People enjoying their lunch on a sunny day on the Quay in this lovely little Devon town on the Exe estuary #shoresounds #Devon
By the prom, under the cliffs are some grasslands, where butterflies and insects are found. This is grasshoppers, with a clinking fishing rod over the railings and a bee later on, too. Westgate-on-Sea, near Margate Kent
Football Hole just north of Low Newton on a sunny evening in July. #Northumberland #Footballhole #Newton #Newtonbythesea
Recorded on Wednesday 29th July at Cadgwith Cove at the weekly summer fish BBQ #shoresounds #Cornwall
Being washed around by the high tide over the shingle beach at Goring , West Sussex
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Waves on Allonby beach. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Cumbria. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Waves on Silloth Beach. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Cumbria. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Waves on South Milton Sands. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Devon. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Bridlington Amusement Arcade. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Humberside. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Gulls in Bridlington. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Humberside. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Sounds of fishing boats at Bridlington. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Humberside. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Pleasure boat owners chatting. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Humberside. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Sounds from the estuary. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Merseyside. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Blyth Seashore. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Newcastle. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Sounds from the funfair at South Shields. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Newcastle. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Sounds from Caister Lifeboat. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Norfolk. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Great Yarmouth Seafront. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Norfolk. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
The starting announcement for the 'Round The Island Race'. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Solent. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Waves , wind and shingle on a beach in the Solent. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Solent. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Clacking boat wires, wind and shingle. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Solent. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Rain on a Sussex beach. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Sussex. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Shingle on a Sussex beach. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Sussex. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
The tide coming in on a Sussex beach. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Sussex. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
The sounds of Redcar Seafront - including arcade games and buying a 'lemon top' ice cream. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Tees. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC York. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio York. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Stormy weather at Chapel Porth, St Levan. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Cornwall. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Children and Gulls on Porthgwarra, St Levan. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Cornwall. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Waves on Porthgwarra Cove, St Levan. Recorded for 'Sounds of our Shores' by BBC Radio Cornwall. Used in Joe Acheson's composition 'Shore Sounds' #shoresounds
Children from Dorset Beach School recording and talking about the sounds of the waves landing on the shore at Ringstead Bay. Dorset Beach School is part of Dorset Forest School. http://www.dorsetforestschool.org/ Sounds in Nature workshop run by Gabrielle Fry. Recorded using an H4N Zoom recorder.
The foghorn is located near the lighthouse at Kinnaird Head, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. I recorded its sound on a Sony cassette recorder using a Song stereo microphone in the early 1980's. The foghorn is no longer used.
SoundDevices 702, Rode NT5 mics in ORTF pattern. Exact location: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zCWbkwhDU3ko.k5dNcI2F4vXI&usp=sharing #shoresounds
Recording taken on the deck of a boat, moored up off Coverack harbour. People learning how to wind surf close by. Sea King helicopter passing in the distance.
This would have been a sound of the past- work done by women but now an activity for visitors. #shoresounds #nationaltrust #britishlibrary #levanttinmine
Right at the base of the cliff the slow ebb of the tide is augmented by the thud of the waves in the recesses at the cliff base and underneath the large boulders. The Kittiwakes provide background. Recorded with Sound Devices 702T and a pair of DPA4060 microphones. Location NU 26018 18660
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The sound of the outgoing tide on a calm day; the nearby Kittiwake colony provides a backdrop to the slow ebb of the tide. Recorded with a SoundDevices 702T recorder and pair of DPA 4060 microphones. Location NU 26018 18660
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Waves gently lapping against the outermost steps on the Holyhead breakwater, 1.7 miles from shore GPS 53.329953, -4.620184. Audio Technica AT8022
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Gulls and cormorants circling the island of Ynys Arw (North Stack) at high tide, Holy Island, Anglesey, North Wales. Recorded at the old fog signal station GPS 53.322632, -4.682447. Audio Technica AT8022
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An annual event organised by Lymington Rowing Club and held at Milford-on-Sea. It was a warm summer's morning when I went down with enthusiastic spectators supporting the competitors.#soundsofourshores
Losing on the dreaded claw machine whilst waiting for the rain to stop at Wells-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk #shoresounds
Sounds on Aldeburgh beach, Suffolk, outside the lifeboat shelter and whilst walking along the shingle towards the sea. Recorded on my iPhone. #shoresounds
Jetskis and people at Brighlingsea with the waves rolling on the shingle
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Recorded under Clacton pier - the waves coming in under the pier, some of the people on the beach and the occasional thump which is some kid whacking seven bells out of the "how hard can you hit it" game
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The sounds around the tidemills crossing of the train from Brighton to Seaford. Specifically the train sounding it's warning horn before it rushes by. Generally birds and people. The crossing leads into a derelict village, abandon in 1949, before reaching the shoreline. Used at the moment bymany people, mainly dog walkers and surfers.
Recorded on a tiny island in the Kyles of Bute, with wind in the pine trees, birdsong and the primeval calls of heron chicks.
Just outside the colony, the single adult gulls like to sit on the Victorian water catchment and chatter...
Tobermory Isle of Mull - gangway to the pontoons on a lumpy day. #Tobermory #Isle of Mull #shoresounds
choughs calling on the north coast cliffs of #Jersey for @BBCR4OC with the Birds on the Edge project #shoresounds
National Trust beach near Bude. Sandymouth: Trickling stream reaching end of valley #SoundsOfOurShores #Shoresounds
National Trust beach near Bude. Duckpool: Sea crashing and dragging pebbles #SoundsOfOurShores #Shoresounds
National Trust beach near Bude, Duckpool: Waves Crashing on rocks #SoundsOfOurShores #Shoresounds
10am Monday 27th July, The Hive Café comes alive, in the background the roar of the sea.
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The weekly fish barbecue at Cadgwith Cove with singing from the Cadgwih Singers #shoresounds #cadgwith Recorded on iPhone
The mud pops as the tide goes out and all the mud shrimps come out of their burrows #shoresounds
Birds and waves at the Seven Sisters caves, at The Gobbins. #cliffs #caves #shoresounds
shoresounds Berrow (Grid ref: ST 28950 52492) evening walk with the tide fast advancing over the flats, can I hear reed warblers as well? Recorded with Zoom H2
Wind Turbines and a Skylark at Seashore Haven holiday park. Caister-on-Sea near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. July 2015.
Rolling, frothy waves breaking on the shores of Porthcurno beach, Cornwall. #shoresounds
A creaking pontoon in the wake of a passing boat. Recorded at the Tamar River Sailing Club, Saltash, Plymouth. #shoresounds
A yacht sail billowing in the wind at the Tamar River Sailing Club, Saltash, Plymouth. #shoresounds
Tamar river police boat engine start up and running, MOD, Devonport docks, Tamar Estuary, Plymouth. #shoresounds
Introduction and safety announcement over the tannoy speakers on board the Plymouth Sound cruise up the river Tamar. The cruise begins at the harbour at the Barbican, Plymouth.
Children diving off the jetty on a hot day. Location: Saltash Passage, near the Tamar bridge on the Cornwall side of the Tamar Estuary. #shoresounds
Flushing Village Regatta. Falmouth Marine Band singing Trelawney. Recorded July 25th 2015. One minute duration #shoresounds
Watching the America's Cup boats leaving Portsmouth Harbour from the stern of HMS Warrior 25th July 2015 #shoresounds
The full version of a piece by Joe Acheson (http://www.hiddenorchestra.com), using sounds from the coast recorded by BBC Local Radio stations in England for the 'Sounds of our Shores' project. The cast list of stations that recorded sounds includes: BBC Radio Cornwall, BBC Radio Cumbria, BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Humberside, BBC Newcastle, BBC Radio Norfolk, BBC Radio Solent, BBC Sussex, BBC Tees and BBC Radio York. #shoresounds #BBC
St Mary's Church ... East Cliff ... clock ringing the half hour ... Zoom H6 and m/s capsule ... #shoresounds
Church of St Mary's ... East Cliff ... church clock ringing 10:00 am ... open lavaliers clipped to sandwich box ... #shoresounds ...
This is a recording of the annual riding of the Marches when the boundaries of the old Royal Burgh are marked out as tradition requires. This is a common feature of the border towns in Scotland but mostly they are inland events. Kircudbright's is one of the few that take place in a coastal town alongside the Solway estuary. It commemorates the first riding of the boundary of the Kirkcudbright Royal Burgh granted as long ago as 1485 by virtue of a Charter granted by King James II. This year it lasted for over two hours and more than 100 horses and riders attended.
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shoresounds Common terns and Little terns at the low water line, Point of Ayr nature reserve, North Wales. GPS 53.355572, -3.308816
The tannoy in French and German plus traffic at the Port of Dover recorded from the White Cliffs of Dover.
Recorded by Gwen Potter, Wildlife & Country Adviser for National Trust, Clips recorded at Whiteford Burrows on the Gower, Wales. Includes a bit of meadow pipit, wind in the marram grass and a common green grasshopper #gower #whiteford #wildlife #grasshopper
A volunteer closing the security doors at Fan Bay Deep Shelter at the White Cliffs of Dover
The sound of repairs being undertaken on Eastbourne Pier after part of it was completely destroyed, leaving only a metal skeleton. #shoresounds
Sound of glass bottles being emptied into the bin, and the air conditioner outlet from the night club towards the end of eastbourne pier.#shoresounds
A 3 minute recording of the sea from the mouth of a cave just outside of Whitehead, Northern Ireland. Recorded on the 25th July 2015 at 8pm using a Røde NT4 into a Tascam DR-680.
A teaser for a new piece of music by Joe Acheson (http://www.hiddenorchestra.com) using sounds from the coast recorded by BBC Local Radio stations in England (linked to the sounds of our shores project). The cast list of stations that recorded sounds includes: BBC Radio Cornwall, BBC Radio Cumbria, BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Humberside, BBC Newcastle, BBC Radio Norfolk, BBC Radio Solent, BBC Sussex, BBC Tees and BBC Radio York. Tune in to your local BBC Radio station on Monday 27 July at 8.45am to hear the first full play or come back to audioboom and check it out #shoresounds #BBC
Excavations of a Bronze Age site eroding from the cliff at Seatown, near Chideock, Dorset - a Neptune project #shoresounds
The general sounds of a busy summers day at the National Trust cafe on Studland in Dorset #shoresounds #Dorset
A short walk along the very popular Studland beach, owned by the National Trust and enjoyed by lots of people every year #shoresounds #Dorset #beaches
This bunker had a birds eye view of the practice run for the D-Day landings at Studland on the Dorset coast. Visitors included Churchill and Eisenhower #shoresounds #WW2 #Dorset
The sound of the waves gently lapping along this National Trust owned beach on the Dorset coast is very calming and re-assuring #shoresounds #Dorset #nationaltrust
Recorded on the pebble beach, close the water at Aberaeron in Wales, using a Mid-Side microphone setup. #Wales #Aberaeron #midside #shoresounds #summer
Limestone from Raynes quarry being loaded onto a coastal freighter, to be transported by sea to other parts of the uk. Just as it would have been a thousand years ago, living history. Listen to the conveyor belt squeaking.
The last remaining swimmers finish the 2015 Pier to Pier swim in Southend. The announcer thanks the lifeguards and organisers #shoresounds
Waves on shingle, small birds, a motor launch passes slowly by, distant sounds of conversation, a stiff breeze blowing #shoresounds
Strolling on #Aberafon #pebble #beach with #waves #lapping against the #shore #Wales #shoresounds
A Thursday morning in the summer with my toddler: we had the beach all to ourselves. He was learning how to drop rocks into the sea. You might be able to hear the occasional splosh of a rock being dropped and there were also two aeroplanes and a speed boat in the distance. We love the beach here and on a clear day, you can see straight across to Scotland.
Recorded on Sunday 19th July 2015. Wind blowing through flags in front of the Sea View restaurant on Saltburn promenade. A dog can be heard barking and a few seagulls. Recorded with a Zoom H5N, Rode NTG3 and Blimp 2 with dead wombat. #saltburn #saltburnbysea #shoresounds
Trevone Blow Hole, Cornwall. Recorded with binaural mics sat at the bottom of the hole. Whilst recording we spotted a Sea Badger behind a rock a few feet away.
Waves and distant barnacle geese flocks passing by ... binaural dummy head ... 2012y09m14 ... #shoresounds ...
From the back of a beach hut at Whitby ... 20 May 2013... less than 30m of visibility and less than 10 degrees C ... #shoresounds ...
Children at play by the shore. You can hear the local sheep make an appearance. The children and mother go ahead and I take a short walk along the pebble beach. A boat engine can be heard starting up, hear the gentle throb of its engine as it passes out at sea. #Scotland #Skye #soundsofourshores #shoresounds
shoresounds a fire using the abundant drift wood on Skinningrove beach, high tide on 1st July, a warm day but overcast when this was recorded.
shoresounds The poles on which the lights at the far ends of the harbour walls at Staithes have holes in them. When the wind blows through them a strange hooting noise can sometimes be picked up. This one was recorded on the east wall at about 21.45 on 28th June 2015.
shoresounds Standing a bit too close to the Penny Steel Nab at Staithes. Pm on 30th June 2015. The largest items to fall was about the size of a tennis ball. This was happening all the time... glad i captured one.
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Chris Jones hammers in search of an ammonites at Port Mulgrave at 15.41 on 2nd July 2015. Glorious sunny day, tide coming in.
Water, gulls, passers-by and a breeze in Mevagissey harbour at high tide. #shoresounds #harbour #mevagissey #cornwall
Whitby Harbour with gentle waves lapping at the shore, seagulls. Recorded with a Zoom H5N, Rode NTG3 and Blimp 2 with dead wombat. 18th July 2015, early evening. #Whitby #shoresounds #NorthYorkshire
Gentle waves lapping at the rocks with a few seagulls in the background. Recorded with a Zoom H5N, Rode NTG3 and Blimp 2 with dead wombat. 18th July 2015, early evening. #Sandsend #shoresounds #NorthYorkshire
Recording from Ceibwr beach near Moylegrove in Pembrokeshire #Shoresounds #Pembrokeshire #Wales
shoresounds Scarborough Bingo - sea front. Arcades etc.
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WLD2015 #shoresounds Beautiful, briny Laig Bay, Isle of Eigg, 12 noon on Saturday 18 July. Almost low tide, warm wind speed 35 to 40 mph. Ferry cancelled, but sun & calm weather forecast for the rest of the week. www.isleofeigg.org
shoresounds #boscombe The Musical Play Trail on Boscombe Pier offers outdoor percussion instruments that can be played all through the year. You should be able to hear the xylophone set up so that anyone can play 'I do like to be beside the seaside'!
Waves on the part-sand, part-shingle beach at Weybourne, Norfolk. Captured with an SD702 and Audio Technica BP4025.
A close up recording of waves on a shingle beach near Cley-Next-The-Sea, in Norfolk. Captured with an SD702 and Audio Technica BP4025.
WLD2015 #stillwalks The "plink" of periwinkles on a Galloway shore as the tide gently ebbs.
Sounds of seagulls a few miles inland at Polegate station near Eastbourne one afternoon. Best listened to through speakers rather than headphones.
Walking past the Funfair as the Dive Bomber ride slowly comes to a halt. School children on a day trip and Souter Lighthouse add ambience. Seagull has something to say at the beginning. Photo my own.
SouthShields #foghorn #funfair #shoresounds
Soundscape of Whitstable beach and harbour in the early morning.
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Recording of a walk through the Hastings shorefront by Ilia Rogatchevski and Laura Smith. The walk starts by the sea and works its way up through the beach car park and to the high street amusement arcade. Recorded on a Zoom H4n handheld recorder.
An inter-tidal lochan ... rain and wind ... lots of space between the notes ... then lots of space and very few notes ... 2013y04m14 ... #shoresounds ...
Sounds in the amusement arcade on Saltburn Pier in Saltburn-by-Sea recorded 16 July 2015. Sunny but windy day with a high tide. Recorded with a Zoom H5N, Rode NTG3 and Blimp 2 with dead wombat.
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Recording made as part of the Colchester Moot Hall organ restoration project (http://moothallorgan.co.uk) Recorded in Brighlingsea Creek, Essex, 16 July 2015.
Oystercatchers – Coastal Sound Archive. Recorded at: Acarseid Mhor on the beautiful wee island of Rona, which is just north of Raasay, off the east coast of Skye. #shoresounds
Waves breaking across the shingle beach at Herne Bay in Kent. The recorder was set as close to the water as possible and the microphones set to a wide spread, in order to maximise the stereo image. Best listened to using headphones.
Playing 2p machines on Brighton pier. Listen sitting centrally between speakers in front of you rather than headphones for best effect.
Waves continually breaking on the sandy beach at Saunton Sands, near Braunton in North Devon, create a constantly shifting, natural 'white noise' type sound.
Recorded using Binaural mics attached to my bicycle, which was parked opposite the Chough Bakers, next to the Harbour wall...
Nick Crane (presenter of BBC Two series Coast) discusses his favourite #shoresounds and seaside spots.
David Hendy (Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sussex) talks about his research into mankind's relationship with sound, and Brighton's unique coastal soundscape.
Birds loafing above the colony at Staple Newk ... lavalier mics on the end of a fishing landing net pole ... windblast ... 2014y07m22 ... #shoresounds ...
Gannet colony at Staple Newk ... 2011y04m11 ... all the sounds though none of the aroma ... #shoresounds ...
Early morning on July 14th at Keyhaven a reed warbler sings hidden in the waving bushes.#soundsofourshores
Swans and mallard were feeding near the harbour wall at 05.45am today July 14th. A chattering and chuntering conversation and a few fisticuffs on a coolish windy morning.#soundsofourshores
shoresounds the sound of some Seagulls at Scarborough Harbour. Recorded 10th July 2015.
A little walk around the outside of the arcades on Brighton pier one windy evening. A retro horse racing machine can be heard, a mobile scooter goes close past and there is a little surprise at the end. Best listened to with your head centered between 2 speakers rather than headphones.
Crashing waves on the rocks near Birsay, Orkney Islands.(http://bit.ly/1DcMRVB) 2x Line Audio CM3's in ORTF and then JRF Hydrophone recorded on Sound Devices 552.
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shoresounds the Eurofighter Typhoon scaring the seagulls at the Welsh National Airshow in Swansea recorded on HTC One
Walking along the crowded bustling harbour front at the wonderful coastal town of Whitby. Home to many things, including Bram Stoker's "Dracula".
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Gentle waves lapping against sand near to the Cobb at Lyme Regis around 9pm on July 9th 2015. People walking by and the sounds of gulls. #SoundsOfOurShores
The evening high tide gently lapping at the rocks at Folkestone and the sound of Herring gulls screeching in the background!
Waters edge from new shopping complex to lifeguard station ... open lavalier mics clipped to baseball cap ... #shoresounds ...
Standing on the edge of the water during high tide at Eastbourne. Might be good to sleep to. For best effect listen with your head central between speakers on a table in front of you rather than headphones.
Not far from the site of a shipwreck is a steep climb towards Pennard Farm where the legs need to work that little bit harder #shoresounds #gower #Wales
North Bay Railway: the 10:30 train from Peasholm Station to Scalby Mills ... #shoresounds ...
Hunts Bay is just below where Vernon Watkins lived with the waves crashing on to limestone rock its a dramatic little spot where you can get some shelter #shoresounds #Gower #Wales
This path takes you down towards Pwll Du Bay along the old route into Swansea. It was used by farmers and also smugglers and as you descend it has lots of loose bits of rock. Its a beautiful little walk #shoresounds #Gower #Wales
An intense wave experience at this small stoney beach. Accessed by the old route to Swansea from south Gower and a place of work for generations #shoresounds #waves #Gower #Wales
A short clip of the sound of the waves on the beach from the inside of a wave cut notch. Interesting to hear the difference in sound compared to a less sheltered spot #shoresounds #Gower #Wales
This short clip is the crunch of walking on the stones from an old quarry on south Gower #shoresounds #Wales #Gower
The chain Ferry Bramble Bush Bay, operating between Poole and Studland, is many visitors' introduction to the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset #shoresounds
The sound of MS Oldeburg transporting visitors to the beautiful Lundy Island off the coast of North Devon. #shoresounds
http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/lundyisland/ms-oldenburg/
Water run off ... into a rock pool ... under the east cliff ... Whitby ...
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Fairly flat high tide ... Whitby East Pier ... landing path leading to the beach ... down amongst the boulders ... #shoresounds ...
Dusk over the Tay with the sound of Oyster Catchers at the water's edge and the distant sound of traffic on the Tay Road Bridge
Sitting on the side of Brighton pier one sunny Sunday afternoon looking out to sea. The tide is breaking directly in front and people are going about their business behind us. For best effect, listen to the clip with speakers placed evenly each side in front of you rather than with headphones.#shoresounds
Part three of our short break down at Barmston Beach Holiday Park on the East Riding of Yorkshire coast. No wind at all, but a heavy swell on a high tide, at Hornsea on the coast, create fun for the kids, and a great binaural soundscape.
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Hydrophone recording of water boatmen stridulating underwater in a coastal reedbed. East Chevington Northumberland #shoresounds #hydrophone
Avocet colony on the island ... pump in the background ... 2009y06m16 ...
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Summer wind blows through this coastal reedbed, a moderate sea behind; sedge and reed warblers call, wren sings and moorhen provides the coda. East Chevington, Northumberland, 9 July 2015. #shoresounds
Thunderstorm over the island ... mic pushed out volunteers hut window ... 2009y06m16 ... #shoresounds ...
Thunderstorm over the island ... mic pushed out the volunteers hut window ... 2009y06m15 .. #shoresounds
hornsea #east #riding #of #yorkshire #coast #crashing #surf #waves #sounds #shoresounds
One of the must-see tourist spots on the north coast of Northern Ireland, this walk takes visitors out to a small island, where they can visit the old cottage once used by lobster fisherman. But, first, they must cross the thrilling rope bridge, suspended 30 meters above the crashing Atlantic ocean – the views of the stunning Antrim coastline, however, are worth it!
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One of the must-see tourist spots on the north coast of Northern Ireland, this walk takes visitors out to a small island, where they can visit the old cottage once used by lobster fisherman. But, first, they must cross the thrilling rope bridge, suspended 30 meters above the crashing Atlantic ocean – the views of the stunning Antrim coastline, however, are worth it!
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Nationaltrust
One of the must-see tourist spots on the north coast of Northern Ireland, this walk takes visitors out to a small island, where they can visit the old cottage once used by lobster fisherman. But, first, they must cross the thrilling rope bridge, suspended 30 meters above the crashing Atlantic ocean – the views of the stunning Antrim coastline, however, are worth it!
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Nationaltrust
The golden sands of Whitepark Bay on the north coast of Northern Ireland is a beautiful beach with ‘singing sands’. As you walk along, the grains squeak and sing, an accompaniment to the stunning, wild scenery of the coastline. I have tried to capture the sound and atmosphere of the area, with rushing waves, wind and bird call – the backdrop to your own experience.
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Nationaltrust
This dramatic ruin positioned on the north coast of Northern Ireland has an equally dramatic story behind it – particularly that of the kitchen which crashed into the sea during a party one fateful night! Beneath the castle lies a sea tunnel, and the waves rush and crash relentlessly over the stones.
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Nationaltrust
The famous Giant’s Causeway, near Bushmills in Northern Ireland, is a tourist hotspot, with visitors flocking from around the world to see the fantastic hexagonal stone formations – created from the cooling lava flow of the Antrim Plateau... But legend has it, the Causeway was actually created by the Giant Finn McCool, who laid the stones over to Scotland to fight with the giant Bendannor. Whatever the truth, it’s definitely worth a visit! Featured talking in this clip is Moya, a National Trust volunteer who collects seaweed for medicinal baths.
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The famous Giant’s Causeway, near Bushmills in Northern Ireland, is a tourist hotspot, with visitors flocking from around the world to see the fantastic hexagonal stone formations – created from the cooling lava flow of the Antrim Plateau... But legend has it, the Causeway was actually created by the Giant Finn McCool, who laid the stones over to Scotland to fight with the giant Bendannor. Whatever the truth, it’s definitely worth a visit!
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Nationaltrust
The chalky cliffs at Peacehaven, East Sussex, are home to a stony beach adjacent to heavy duty concrete sea defences. This recording is of the high tide crashing over the stones and splashing hard against the concrete defence wall.
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Offcumduns Morris men on beachfront in Deal, Kent on 23 June 2015 to celebrate the longest day. Offcumduns are a group of men and women who do a particular type of Morris dancing which developed in the North West of England – hence the clogs.
Sean 'Fishing Tails' McSeveney telling a story about a sighting of tuna from Chesil Beach as he briefs a group prior to a shore fishing course from West Bexington in Dorset. Recorded on a Zoom H4n. #shoresounds
One of 12 bells which are being installed around the UK by Marcus Vergette. At high tide waves lap at the clapper, causing the bell to be rung by the sea. #shoresounds
Ian Barnes (Head of Archaeology at the National Trust) talks about the sounds of the roller coasters on Blackpool Pleasure Beach
One of 12 bells which are being installed around the UK by Marcus Vergette. At high tide waves lap at the clapper, causing the bell to be rung by the sea. #shoresounds
One of 12 bells which are being installed around the UK by Marcus Vergette. At high tide waves lap at the clapper, causing the bell to be rung by the sea. #shoresounds
One of 12 bells which are being installed around the UK by Marcus Vergette. At high tide waves lap at the clapper, causing the bell to be rung by the sea. #shoresounds
RAF Sea King helicopter flying over Godolphin National Trust property in Cornwall at 12 noon on Friday 3rd July 2015
swish, rattle and shush - shingle being played with by waves, Cogden Beach, West Dorset #shoresounds
Shoresounds . Ultramarine play 'Music for Northey Island' at Northey Island, Essex. Part of the National Trust's Castaway weekend, Friday 3 July 2015
July 5th at c 7.30am as the tide begins to creep in over the salt marsh at the back of Hurst Castle, Milford-on-Sea 3 sheep in the field above stick their heads through the fence by a parked motor caravan whose occupants are still curtained in and casually chomp thistles. They ignore me until the tasty leaves are gone and then mosey back to join the rest of the flock.
On the beach just west of Milford-on- Sea sea front at 5.15 am on Sunday July 5th. The beach was deserted as the sea rolled gently up the beach as the tide began to turn. It was warm and frothy like soap suds. The horizon was misty , the world was mine apart from a few blackheaded gulls and a crow eating a small green crab.#shoresounds. I took photos of my feet as they sank slowly into the fine sand and shingle but the page turns red when I try to load one.
High tide, no wind, small waves crash onto mixed gravel, stone and broken clay surface. The sea here is eroding the mediaeval field system and drain which can be seen in the low rise 'cliff' edge.
03.58 mins | ZoomH1v2 | June 2015 #shoresounds
Recording of the waves at Cambo Sands in Fife using 2 AT3032 microphones and to keep some of the wind out some Rycote windshields. All that into a FP24 preamp and a KORG MR2 recorder in June 2015.
During summer holiday, walking dog you can see Boom Beach (in distance with the ruined pier), looking at the hills, listening to waves and birds, bliss. Loch Ewe, Mellon Charles near Aultbea, Scotland.
soundsoftheshore #scotland #aultbea
Recorded with an iPhone 6s
One of the oldest working water-operated funiculars in the world. You can hear the water filling at the end. Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Cleveland, 2 July 2015 #shoresounds #funicular
Sounds from the arcade on Barry Island, best known as a setting for popular TV series 'Gavin and Stacy'
Female eider with ducklings ... keeping a herring gull at distance ... Seahouses harbour ... #shoresounds ...
Eider ducks ... Seahouses harbour ... sort of soundscape ... males and females ... open lavalier mics ... #shoresounds ...
Artic tern colony ... Inner Farne ... Farne Islands ... binaural dummy head ... terns ... people ... creaking board walk ...