Grosvenor Place_1928 soundscape

The second series of London street noises were taken from St. George’s Hospital (now the Lanesborough Hotel), Hyde Park Corner, where traffic noises would be heard from 6.30am till 4am. The microphone transmitting the sounds was positioned outside the window of one of the women patients’ wards on the first floor which was overlooking towards the corner of Knightsbridge and Grosvenor-place. The recording caught public attention and was covered in several stories in the Daily Mail. Concerns about wellbeing had indeed culminated in an article published earlier, which triggered this investigation, in which Sir Percival Philips describes noise as a ‘menace to nerves and health’. Then, few months later, a worrying 21-hours exposure to road traffic noise for the sick, who need peace the most, was revealed. In order to protect themselves, the elderly patients were provided with cotton wools or ear plugs and everyone had an earphone by their bed through which they would listen to the Proms concerts. Source: Daily Mail, ‘Cities’ Worst Plague’, 16.06.1928, Issue: 10055, p.11; ’21,5-Hours Traffic Roar’, 08.09.1928, Issue: 10102, p.9 and ‘All Day Din in Hospital’, 04.10.1928, Issue: 1024, p.13. Once you`ve listened to the 1928 soundscape, please fill in this anonymous google form http://bit.ly/LSNgrosvenor

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