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
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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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4 comments
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!