Sound from a Town
Sound from a Town
Sound from a Town
A cemetary next to a motorway junction
3 minutes Posted Mar 23, 2025 at 12:20 pm.
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There's a Pentecostal Church on the Westminster - one of Ellesmere Port's suburbs - that backs onto a motorway sliproad. The sliproad was opened in 1972 to join up with the M53, a motorway that ran right through the middle of the Westminster and cut the community in two. I'm not sure what this cemetary would have sounded like on a Sunday before the M53 was built, but I imagine the low drone of errand-laden traffic wouldn't have dominated the soundscape as much as it does today. 

 

Recorded Suynday 8th March.