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Listening Benches

All 18 of our community listening benches have now been launched across Essex, as part of our Heritage Lottery Funded project, You Are Hear: sound and a sense of place. Though our two touring benches have ceased their wanderings, you can still find them in Essex. Each bench plays a selection of clips from Essex Sound and Video Archive recordings - clips about the area chosen by volunteers from that community. How many can you visit?

  • Basildon listening bench

    Basildon listening bench

    Welcome to the information page for the listening bench installed in Basildon, Essex. *Sadly the bench in Bowers Gifford has been ...
  • Burnham-on-Crouch listening bench

    Burnham-on-Crouch listening bench

    Welcome to the information page for the listening bench installed in Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. The bench features clips that reflect the key ...
  • Castle Hedingham listening bench

    Castle Hedingham listening bench

    Welcome to the information page for the listening bench installed in Castle Hedingham, Essex. Here you can find out more about ...
  • Chelmsford listening bench

    Chelmsford listening bench

    Welcome to the information page for the listening bench installed in Chelmsford, Essex. The bench features clips that reveal how the ...
  • Clacton-on-Sea listening bench

    Clacton-on-Sea listening bench

    The listening bench in Clacton-on-Sea now features new audio! Visit the bench to hear the new recordings that give an insight ...
  • Clavering listening bench

    Clavering listening bench

    Our listening bench in Clavering has new audio! The bench features information about the village, past and present. On the left-hand ...
  • Coggeshall listening bench

    Coggeshall listening bench

    Welcome to the information page for the listening bench installed in Coggeshall, Essex. The bench features clips about some of the ...
  • Colchester listening bench

    Colchester listening bench

    Welcome to the information page for the listening bench installed in Colchester, Essex. Here you can find out more about the ...
  • Epping listening bench

    Epping listening bench

    Welcome to the information page for the listening bench installed in Epping, Essex. The bench features clips of memories of Epping ...
  • Essex Country Parks touring bench

    Essex Country Parks touring bench

    Welcome to the information page for our listening bench that is touring Essex Country Parks. We hope the clips on ...
  • Galleywood listening bench

    Galleywood listening bench

    Welcome to the information page for the listening bench installed in Galleywood, Essex. The recordings on the bench were selected from ...
  • Great Dunmow listening bench

    Great Dunmow listening bench

    Dunmow Says Thank You For the 100 year anniversary of Armistice Day 1918, the community in Dunmow have recorded the names ...
  • Great Waltham listening bench

    Great Waltham listening bench

    Welcome to the information page for the listening bench installed in Great Waltham, Essex. The clips currently loaded onto the bench ...
  • Harlow listening bench

    Harlow listening bench

    Welcome to the information page for the listening bench installed in Harlow, Essex. Here you can find out more about the ...
  • Harwich listening bench

    Harwich listening bench

    Welcome to the information page for the listening bench installed in Harwich, Essex. Here you can find out more about the ...
  • Kelvedon listening bench

    Kelvedon listening bench

    Welcome to the information page for the listening bench installed in Kelvedon, Essex. Here you can find out more about the ...
  • Saffron Walden listening bench

    Saffron Walden listening bench

    Welcome to the information page for the listening bench installed in Saffron Walden, Essex. Here you can find out more about ...
  • Southend-on-Sea listening bench

    Southend-on-Sea listening bench

    Now new audio on the listening bench installed in Southend-on-Sea! The recordings on the bench were updated in October 2018. The ...
  • Touring listening bench sponsored by Friends of Historic Essex

    Touring listening bench sponsored by Friends of Historic Essex

    This listening bench has now finished its two-year tour. The bench has been delivered to arts organisation METAL, based in Chalkwell ...
  • Witham listening bench

    Witham listening bench

    Welcome to the information page for the listening bench installed in Witham, Essex. The bench features clips from oral history interviews ...
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