Forty minutes walk from Stanford-le-Hope railway station, along residential avenues and a service road that leads to the nature reserve, past a single story brick built municipal transformer station that hummed in the hot afternoon sun, down a stony footpath where we stopped to pick blackberries and over the freight railway line to the nearby London Gateway deepwater container port via the level crossing, we found this hidden away beach. It is set back from the main channel of the Thames in a small bay. The beach was empty except for one other family. We put the microphones to record in a sheltered spot and retired to brew tea on a camping stove, then relaxed to the lapping waves and the sound of the children playing happily in the sand. This is almost twenty four minutes of pure bliss As the tide goes out and the waves change. The engine of a marine vessel moored some way off emits a low bass note. Occasionally a deep industrial thud can be heard from the container port. Towards the end the mud slightly fizzes as it is exposed to the air. A lone bird calls faintly as it scours the fresh mud for food. A propellor plane hums distantly over in the South West.
August breezes through an ancient Oak
Cooling off beside sifting waves at Felixstowe Ferry
Brutalism and crickets of the A10 flyover
Summer sunrise over a lake in the Lee Valley - raucous birds start the day
Murmurs of the Kerry Ridgeway (part 2) - what rush hour sounds like in the hills of mid-Wales
Arable farmland in the Essex countryside
Suffolk Wood (part 4) - 11pm
A summer walk in rural Hertfordshire - sunshine and showers
Cathedral of trees - the Forest of Dean (part 1)
Early summer breezes
Sound-scenes of ocean waves
Suffolk Wood (part 3) - 10pm
Murmurs of the Kerry Ridgeway
Murmurs of the Kerry Ridgeway
Sleeper train from Paris Austerlitz to Port Bou
Under a large umbrella (rain and thunder)
Suffolk Wood (part 2) - 9pm
Dawn on a Peak District moorside
Sheltering in the back garden (from a storm)
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