SoundsField recordingsFrequenciesDecibelsInstrumentsGlossaryToolsLearn
  1. Home
  2. Field recordings
  3. United Kingdom
  4. Reading
  5. Vintage tills before auction – Reading
Field recording · United Kingdom

Vintage tills before auction

Jacksons Corner, Reading RG1, UK

A field recording by Felicity Ford made in Reading, United Kingdom on 3 January 2014, in the afternoon. Soundscape: church bells and crowds & voices.

Listen

Vintage tills before auction
0:00
Spectrogram of Vintage tills before auction
Spectrogram of the full recording (time left to right, frequency bottom to top), generated by the Internet Archive.

Tip: press play to see the sound's live frequency spectrum in blue over the waveform.

Recordist's notes

In January 2014, Jacksons of Reading ceased trading and held an auction to sell off all the assets of the family-owned department store. It was a momentous, sad, historic occasion and involved opening the entire building up so that people could see all the items for sale on the evening before the auction. The whole building was opened up in ways it never previously had been, and I was able to record some of the sounds of the old furniture of Jacksons of Reading, such as these old wooden tills with bells inside.

Written by Felicity Ford on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Reading is a city of about 318,014 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 153 field recordings from here.

Recorded nearby

More by Felicity Ford

More church bells recordings

Sources & credits