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I had a meeting with a photographer and was surprised to see him turn up in a Lancia Integrale sports car – complete with racing livery! (Turns out he’d been to Donnington Race circuit earlier that day!) Anyway I couldn’t resist but to ask him if I could get a recording of the engine and the exhaust sound. Read more
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If you are a Theatre Designer or a user of the Scenography – Theatre Design Website then I strongly urge you to make a donation to the site… things are very delicate now and it needs all the help it can get!
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I recorded this in the NAAFI tearoom at the Great Central Railway April 2009.
The tearoom is decorated and set as if it were the 1940s. Era music and the crackling of a fire proved irresistible to record, sadly it didn’t last long as customers arrived for a cup of hot chocolate!
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Many of you will know about the excellent London Sound Survey, the website that aims to document contemporary and historic sounds from the UK’s capital. I’m an avid reader of the site and the great work that Ian Rawes (its creator) is doing there. Recently Ian opened a new Wildlife section featuring the sounds of London’s wildlife. One of the great things about our capital are it’s many parks and wildlife reserves – many of which have sprung up almost organically and been curated by local people. Read more
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This is a beautiful little (Big) engine. I just love the colour and the lining. This recording was made at the Great Central Railway. Just before my partner and I went for an evening meal on the train.
We’d wandered down to the Loughborough shed from Loughborough central station and the engine was just having its fill of water for the trip. Sadly I had to edit out the filling because a) it takes way too long and b) there was a car in the background. Read more
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A few days ago I was up at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway with my brothers, nieces and parents where I’m sorry to say we had a terrible experience. I’m “sorry” because I had thought the NYMR to be one of the best railways in the country. For the full story head on over to Railnuts, the excellent railway community site run by Pete Waterman.
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Sorry not an audio recording. Instead I’m posting about a Hotel I stayed in recently. “Why?” you ask? Well, from time to time I have to stay in Hotels for work and every so often there’s something so bad about them that I just want to get it off my chest.
Take the Clifton Hotel in Scarborough for example owned by English Rose Hotels. I stayed there on Friday the 21st August. The exterior is quite impressive and has excellent views over Scarborough’s North Bay. The staff were incredibly friendly and polite, the food was ok… but the room I stayed in… was hideous. Dirty, damp, peeling wallpaper, mould patches… the lot!
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Recordings of Hunslets “Playing” on the cob at the Ffestiniog Railway in Wales. Recorded in May 2008 Read more
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LNER Class O4 63601 Departs Quorn
I love this engine… it makes a great noise. At the start of this recording you can almost hear it saying “I can do it, I can do it” as as if from a Thomas the Tank Engine story… it then struggles, hisses and pants up the incline from Quorn with a full train finally celebrating with an exhausted “whistle” somewhere past the Rushey Lane bridge. Read more
