Beauchamp Place_1928 soundscape

The recordings at Beauchamp Place and Cromwell Road had demonstrated the different character of the sonic environment present in the then residential areas. According to Commander Daniel, who investigated London street noises for Daily Mail in September 1928, it is not only the loudness or other particular aspects of noises that affect a good night’s sleep. Intermittent noise, which was being heard in the suburbs and some parts of the West End, was considered to be more disruptive for sleep and resting than a ‘continuous drone of a steady traffic’. In Beauchamp Place, the recording instrument was located in a children’s shop off Brompton Road. The microphone was placed about 10ft above the street level, thus gathering the sounds which people living or working at ground level or on the first floor could hear if they had kept their windows open. Commander Daniel notes that their interview with the shopkeeper was interrupted several times by the passing of heavy traffic, which had recently increased thanks to the diversions from crowded roads. Both Cromwell Road and Beauchamp Place soundscapes also include street musicians as their keynote. Source: Daily Mail, ‘Traffic Din in “Quiet” Streets’, 25.09.1928, Issue: 10116, p.10. Once you`ve listened to the 1928 soundscape, please fill in this anonymous google form http://bit.ly/LSNbeauchamp

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