London's top 20 sounds
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By Time Out editors
Posted: Wed May 21 2008 -
Bells and beer-fuelled babble, motors, market-stall mayhem and musicians tuning up Time Out's team of critics pick their 20 favourite sounds of the capital
Do you agree? Tell us your favourite sound of London
1 Big Ben from Westminster Bridge early on a Sunday morning
2 The flower sellers on Columbia Road: cockneys and Essex boys yelling Latin plant names
3 The birdsong in Battersea Park at dusk
4 Black cabs. The motor sounds like London
5 The merry hubbub broken by loud bouts of laughter across the bar at the Princess Louise on Friday after work
6 Fireworks going off on a north London council estate
7 The ‘plock’ of leather on willow at Lord’s
8 The call to prayer from Whitechapel Mosque
9 The scratching from the vinyl jukebox at the Three Kings of Clerkenwell
10 The Hare Krishnas clinking their prayer bells down Tottenham Court Road
11 The roar of the crowd at Craven Cottage, heard across the river
12 The river lapping against moored boats in Twickenham
13 The rapid click of commuter heels ready for the new day at Waterloo in the early morning
14 Gulls above traffic
15 Ash Wednesday evensong at Westminster Abbey
16 Beer-fuelled babble at The Pride of Spitalfields
17 The London Symphony Orchestra tuning up at the Barbican
18 The frenzied hubbub of Rye Lane in Peckham on Saturdays in the summertime
19 The bells of Southwark Cathedral listened to on the terrace at The Rake
20 Overheard conversation on the 73 bus
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5 comments
If only the Harekrishnas stuck to tottenham court road... but no.. now they come all the way down charing cross road to covent garden...
The excited babble of children making their way to the museums of Exhibition Road in South Kensington.
The sound of an oncoming train at a tube station
What about one of London's fantastic orchestras actually playing?! I vote for the Philharmonia (especially their sauve silk cut strings) - at the Royal Festival Hall of course!
The roar of the water fountains at Trafalgar Square- like a massage for your ears!