Tilbury, New Year's Celebrations, 2016

As part of our public survey about Essex sounds in Grays, a few members of the public said that a sound connected to the local area was the ships’ horns being sounded to see in the new year. So I headed out under the cover of darkness to see if I could capture them.

There were two people already on the quayside watching the fireworks in Kent when I arrived, and they confirmed that we should be able to hear the ships…see if you can hear them or determine when midnight actually occurred during this recording.