Bygone sounds

[mazi]

another one from me,
when our daughter brings the granchildren to stay, her 'bygone'  sound is "that wretched clock chiming and keeping me awake".

how times change
mazi's oh

[cuthie]

I don't often hear "Coronation Scot" now (signature tune of Paul Temple) but when I do for some reason I always feel safe and sort of contented.

Cuthie 

[7igerby7he7ail]

I lived near a railway line, so there was always the sound of steam engines, then diesel, then electric.
Also I miss the clickety-clack of the wheels over the joints in the rail.

Being on the route [ a couple of minutes away] from Manchester airport . I got to recognise and identify each aircraft on sound alone.

The sound of the family's Austin 7, 'Little Puddle Jumper'.

Telephones? I miss the sound of the old fashioned dial.

The tune they played before the football results on the radio.

[joboy]

If you like Salvation Army Bands the put this site in your collection and spend an hour or two (or more) ........ good stuff ....... I remember the sallies playing outside the pub next door quite often ... brilliant musicians;
http://www.regalzonophone.com/Selected%20Playlist%20-%20International%20Congress.htm
enjoy,
joboy

[liverbird09]

The ker-ching of the old cash registers 
I can't abide the endless beep..beep..beep...beep when at the supermarket, nowadays.
Our world has become a cacophony of beeps!!
What sounds will future generations get nostalgic over I wonder?

[Viktoria]

Many thanks joboy, that was lovely.                                                                                                      My mother -in-law was a Salvationist and two of her grandchildren played in the band at Star Hall Manchester.
I love brass bands, thoroughly enjoyed the programme about the revival of Dinnngton Colliery Band.
My grandad was bandmaster of a Church band in Collyhurst M/C and played for a while in Culcheth Military  Band                                                                                                                                           Oh what bliss on Whit Monday!-------those were the days.      Viktoria

[cuthie]

I too enjoyed the programme about Dinnington Colliery Band's revival and was so pleased to hear them "keep up" with the Post Horn Gallop.   I conducted a Male Voice Choir for just under 20 years prior to retiring and many a rousing concert we had with various brass bands, including the Salvation Army.

Cuthie

[Midlanders]

We have so many remembered sounds and hope 3 isn't too many? 
When attending the infant's school together 1941-3 a German Plane flew over and the teacher's whistles all blew at the same time, while us children scurried down to the air-raid shelters.
Also during WW2 we could hear Steam Hammers forging Anchors for Warships, the same ones had made them for HMS Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary and The Titanic.
A vivid one my wife has when a child, a large piece of hot shrapnel from 'friendly' anti-aircraft guns near where we lived came crashing through her neighbour's roof.
It landed on the baby's cot, but she had begun to cry so much her Mum had taken her to their own bed just before.  And apparently, she rarely ever cried at night!
The house is still there with it's repaired roof, but not the baby as she is a Grandmother now.    We are still in touch with her by the way.

[Jane Masri]

Midlanders post reminded me of, not so much bygone sounds but bygone tastes.  My mother who was bombed out during the war would tell me that whenever she heard air-raid sirens (many years after the incident) she would get the taste of lime in her mouth...possibly from bombed masonary 

jane