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Name: Ciaran
From: Wandsworth
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Hello mate. Not sure who put this site together because I'm looking on my phone and it's not laid out for phones. Anyhoo...was looking up old cafe we used to go to in Clerkenwell called the Garfagnana and my search led me here then found old cafes near my house that brought back memories called The Cafe and the Sun on Putney Bridge Rd opposite Wandsworth Park. Thanks for the memories mate 👍🏻😁

Added: April 1, 2024

Posted by
Name: Jana
From: Utah, USA
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Mr. Rawes,

I would like to include about three of the images from your Street Cries of London section in an educational book. Please contact me with your permission and blessing or any questions so my publisher won't get cross with me.

Added: November 27, 2022

Posted by
Name: D.M. Zwerg
From: Wisconsin, USA
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I ran across this site while looking for public domain images of pottle baskets. Love the Cryes of the City of London and other series. Some of the best images of street criers (Eelwives, Matchgirls, Baggers, and other small sellers of goods) I have run across :!cool:

I know your focus is sounds of London, but I look forward to you continuing the series scanning of old woodcuts and other printings during slack times

Added: October 19, 2022

Posted by
Name: Greg M. Price
From: USA
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Hello - I came across your street cries category of your site while I was deep in a "Google rabbit hole" reading pages about hot cross buns and how they were sold by street vendors.....who used street cries to promote....and popular/historic street cries. I just wanted to say you should add a "South America" sub-section to that page because street cries are still very much used today for street vendors to sell their products. For example in the residential areas of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, it is common to hear the repetition of "look at the egg man" or "sweets and deserts" or even "the broom man, buy your brooms" on a daily basis. Most of them are driving a tiny truck with a speaker and a recording, but some (for example the broom man) are still walking and crying while carrying several items for sale. The cries are more detailed than my poor translations above. The Pao de Queso (cheese bread) vendor is especially animated. I thought it would be of interest to you....next time I go in late 2022, I'll try to get some recordings.

Added: January 23, 2022

Posted by
Name: BETTY TELFORD
From: MADLEY, HEREFORD
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I m 88 and went through World War bombing/narrow escapes while living in Bethnal Green LONDON E.2 - evacuated on and off during the War - of course we all listened to BBC radio and there is a tune reguilarly played then that I have on my mind and cannot place: BBC RADIO WARTIME PROGRAMME `'INTO BATTLE" it might be an old French tune or played as a signal for Resistance? I can sing tune but no words. Have searched internet but cannot trace it and came to your web site. Any links?/ideas?

Added: January 6, 2022

Posted by
Name: Iain Chambers
From: London
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Hello to all visitors to the London Sound Survey site. You may have heard the sad news that Ian Rawes, who created this extraordinary project, died in October 2021. Until we set up another page to host Ian's recent work, here is a page at which you'll find articles about Ian, which we'll add to as new pieces emerge:

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Added: December 16, 2021

Posted by
Name: Mike Spillard
From: 'i' Newspaper
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Hello Mike here from the 'i' Newspaper. We are planning to run an obituary of Ian Rawes in the paper, and I wondered if you might have a photograph of him that you could send me to run with the piece please?
Many thanks
Mike
07713 986 319
mike.spillard@inews.co.uk

Added: November 2, 2021

Posted by
Name: A Harris
From: University College London
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Dear Ian,
Thank you for your response back in July to the message below but can't seem to find a reply to my UCL email, perhaps could try again with the alternative email included here.
Many thanks,
Andrew

Added: September 1, 2021

Posted by
Name: Jean-Baptiste Masson
From: York
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Dear Ian,
I am a field recordist and PhD researcher at the University of York, interested in the tape recording clubs that bloomed in Britain from the end of the fifties.
Researching field recording, I have naturally come across the Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle book The Art of the Field Recording, where you are interviewed. A part of the interview has fascinated me, when you speak about that Yorkshireman who recorded the sound of every bus in Yorkshire, with very detailed notes on the tape boxes. You say that these tapes are at the British Library, would you be able to point me toward them?
I'm sorry, I know that this interview was nearly ten years ago, but maybe it will ring a bell.

Thank you very much,
And thank you also for your tremendous work with the London Sound Survey, that's truly inspiring.
Very best,
Jean-Baptiste

Added: August 24, 2021

Posted by
Name: Andrew Harris
From: UCL
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Dear Ian,
Long-time visitor and user of this amazing website including in teaching I undertake on London at University College London. I am exploring possibilities for putting on an event reflecting on sounds of London during the pandemic and was wondering if you might be interested in being involved or could offer advice? We have a little bit of funding from the UCL Urban Lab.
Many thanks,
Andrew Harris

Admin reply: Hello Andrew and many thanks for your message. I'll send an email to you this evening. Best wishes, Ian

Added: July 2, 2021