Chalkwell Night Swimmers, 2015
Dark, recorded about 11.30pm.
Recorded at Jocelyn Beach, in Chalkwell, by the station. The beach has some kind of history where it was a private beach and nothing to do with the council. Essex Record Office should know all about that.
Recorded with a better mic, still not great in a wind, could be better when it’s quiet but fine when there’s a lot of noise going on. This is on the breakwater, the tide coming towards you on both sides, the waves breaking at different points with different noises.
A minute or so in you hear two voices, a couple come down to go swimming. If you catch his voice you might hear what sounds like a Glasgow accent so, Lanarkshire or Renfrewshire. He did ask if I was intending to swim, and that it was lovely once in. There seemed to be a lot of swimming throughout the year last year.
Finishes with a train going out of Chalkwell station.
Image of Chalkwell Beach used under Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike) licence. View the original here.
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Thanks for sharing! I wonder what the beach sounded like in her day.
My gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr Granddad’s daughter Ellen Elizabeth Setterfield married Arthur Jocelyn who brought this section of beach
I have the book called Jocelyn beach.
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