January 8, 2025 • 30 mins
Welcome Home Everybody!
In this episode I, along with Sue Grime from North Norfolk District Council’s Coastwise project, take our Sidestrand school group on a trip to West Runton beach. West Runton forms part of the Deep History Coast, a 22 mile section of North Norfolk shoreline famously home, amongst other ancient treasures, to the remains of a 600,000 year old Steppe Mammoth, the bones of rhinos, hyeanas and bears, chalk rock pools that reveal rich bounties of fossils as the tide goes out, footprints and tools of our ancient human ancestors and, our contemporary focus for this trip, a line of cliffs that are slowly giving themselves to the sea.
Sue and I were then joined by Rob on a second trip to the village of Happisburgh, another section of this deep history coast that is disappearing, though in this instance much more quickly than that of West Runton. Here we explore the beach, the cliff tops and St Mary’s Church, a religious site that has been watching the advancing sea for over 1000 years, and that sometime in the next 100 will be undermined by the waters wearing motion, and the ground’s submission to it.
Our aims were to listen to the cliffs and the rock pools, the sea and the sand, and the soon to be lost topography of these places, and also to explore more generally the physical, human, and of most interest to us, acoustic nature of coastal erosion.
LINKS
www.homesounds.org
Home | Coastwise (north-norfolk.gov.uk)
https://www.timeandtidebell.org
https://www.visitnorthnorfolk.com/Deep-History-Coast
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In this episode I, along with Sue Grime from North Norfolk District Council’s Coastwise project, take our Sidestrand school group on a trip to West Runton beach. West Runton forms part of the Deep History Coast, a 22 mile section of North Norfolk shoreline famously home, amongst other ancient treasures, to the remains of a 600,000 year old Steppe Mammoth, the bones of rhinos, hyeanas and bears, chalk rock pools that reveal rich bounties of fossils as the tide goes out, footprints and tools of our ancient human ancestors and, our contemporary focus for this trip, a line of cliffs that are slowly giving themselves to the sea.
Sue and I were then joined by Rob on a second trip to the village of Happisburgh, another section of this deep history coast that is disappearing, though in this instance much more quickly than that of West Runton. Here we explore the beach, the cliff tops and St Mary’s Church, a religious site that has been watching the advancing sea for over 1000 years, and that sometime in the next 100 will be undermined by the waters wearing motion, and the ground’s submission to it.
Our aims were to listen to the cliffs and the rock pools, the sea and the sand, and the soon to be lost topography of these places, and also to explore more generally the physical, human, and of most interest to us, acoustic nature of coastal erosion.
LINKS
www.homesounds.org
Home | Coastwise (north-norfolk.gov.uk)
https://www.timeandtidebell.org
https://www.visitnorthnorfolk.com/Deep-History-Coast
HomeSounds Show Supporters Club
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M hmm.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Welcome home, everybody, and welcome to the Home Sounds Show.
My name is Martin and I'm a field recordistant teacher.
I'm the creator of the Home Sounds Project and your
co host for the show along with Rob.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hello everybody. My name is Rob and I'm an educator
a naturalist. I work for the Vascal Trust at Sheringham
Park in Norfolk as part of their Children and Young
People Hub. The Home Sound Show invites every one to
become active environmental listeners. Each month we visit a different location,
seeking out seasonal natural sound and focusing on a different theme.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
In this episode, I along with Sue Grime from North
Norfolk District Council's Coastwise Project, take our Side Strand School
group on a trip to West Runton Beach. West Ronton
forms part of the Deep History Coast, a twenty two
mile section of North Norfolk shore line, famously home, amongst
other ancient treasures, to the remains of a six hundred
(01:41):
thousand year old step mammoth, the bones of rhinos, hyaenas
and bears, chalk rock pools that reveal rich bounties of fossils.
As the tide goes out, footprints and tools of our
ancient human ancestors, and our contemporary focus for this trip
a line of cliffs that are slowly giving themselves to
(02:03):
the sea soon and I were then joined by Rob
on a second trip to the village of Haysborough, another
section of this deep history coast that is disappearing, though
in this instance much more quickly than that of West Runton.
Here we explore the beach, the cliff tops, and Saint
(02:24):
Mary's Church, a religious site that has been watching the
advancing sea for over a thousand years and that some
time in the next hundred will be undermined by the
water's wearing motion and the grounds submission to it. Our
aims were to listen to the cliffs and the rock pools,
(02:45):
the sea and the sand, and the soon to be
lost topography of these places, and also to explore more
generally the physical, human, and of most interest to us,
acoustic nature of coastal erosion. So you know that we're
(03:06):
missing somebody who's normally here, which is Rob. Rob can't
make it today.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
So instead what we've done is we have well, we
had a connected with two who works at the district
council and you work on the Coastal Coast COASTWISE project.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
I don't know if anybody has heard of it, but
I know that there wasn't Greek from your school that
they've come to have a talk about our projects. And
I think maybe some.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Older students in your school that came earlier in the year.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
And essentially the post WISE project is the project which
is supporting communities and people who live on the coast
where there's going to be sort of coastal erosion where
there's a risk that they might lose their property or
their business, or they might lose the car path or
the play area or any of that sort of community
recordings over the edge of the cliff and for erosion.
(03:56):
So have you all heard of coast of erosion before?
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, well fantastic. So what we're going to
do today.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Part of what we're going to be doing today is
listening for movements, see if we can hear that oroginals,
if we can hear that change happening.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
So that's what I've thought be really exciting for us
to do today.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
And so part of what I do on the project
is helping people to understand what happens at the coast
and be ready for coastal change, and I thought you
guys could really help me to capture some of the
sounds associated with that today. So yeah, that would be fantastic,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So it's going to be a day of exploration. For
the day of hunting, we're essentially going to be hunting
out sound, but also we thought we might spend some
time in the afternoon and lotos looking for fossils and animals.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
And I picked it up.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And we might try and reports we see if there's
life in there. Aren't there things living in.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
The net phone Brook told me this morning she remembered
what the what was it called the microphone that you
might put in the hydrophone?
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Yeah, that I remembered it from last year.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, those of you got a new A hydrophone is
a special type of microphone that you can put under
the water and then you can listen to what's going
on under the water. And so because we're talking about
coastal erosion today, we're thinking about the thing that makes.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
The coastal erosion is the sea.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
So we're kind of looking at all the different where
we might find sounds along the coast in the edge,
and so to do that We've got a couple of
ways we're going to do it. We do some groupless
thing together. We're going to go down to the beach.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
We're going to.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Plug in a plus of microphones into the twits and
see if you think of it, what day is but.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
But also I'm going to set you some challenges and
give you some equipment with some microphones to go out
and try to capture some sounds. And I'm all show
you how to do that. And yes, so it's a
kind of a bit of a bit of listening, but
then a bit of you've got a mission, got a.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Mission to prof.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So yeah, so that's the plan. Any questions you have
you all been here before that respect some.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yet have you been here for see?
Speaker 8 (06:34):
I'm sure I have been.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Beres also been.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
And yeah, so have some here?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:44):
So have you seen have you seen the mammoth over there?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Because they took a mamoth out of the clift, didn't
they in the nineteen nineties, And there's.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
A bit of information about that history posts.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Of confers here the hoping time about a.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Fan ancient elephant in the cliff.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Yes, yes, yes, so you never know what might might
find something exciting.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yes, okay, so where we're going to head.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Off to first?
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I think we go down to the right.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
There's a bit of beach because it's very high tight.
There's a spring tide so it comes up really high,
but there is enough beach for us to go and
have a look.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
And then this afternoon we look at the rock pools,
which are more down towards that hand side.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
All right, okay, it sounds great.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Should we just hand moment very stop the second and
have a look at the cliffs?
Speaker 10 (07:46):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (07:46):
What can we see on these cliffs?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Can we see the layers of different materials in the
cliff cracks?
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Yeah, definitely? What else can we see? What's another word
for the soil is a bound?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Now, yes, they have found the man I've been here.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
In the ninety nineties, and then they've found a new.
Speaker 11 (08:06):
Elephant somewhere along here.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
I'm not sure where. But so what else?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
What other layers can we see? What's this yellowya stuff
at the bottom here? So that's the sandy layer. And
then what about over to the right hand side. Can
you see like a brown layer at the.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Bottom that's clay? Well done? Okay, So what happens here.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
When it rains on the top there, there's water filters through.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
The cliff, and then when it gets.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
This clay layer, it kind of stops because water doesn't
go through clay.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
It kind of holds the.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Water there, and then all of a sudden all the
sand and the other materials on top will slip off,
and that's how we get.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
The cliff slips.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
And you can see here there's been actually one very
recently because it's really fresh and there's.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
No plants growing on that steps just there. So we
have a really really careful of these cliffs.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
And so when we're going to do the actual cliff listening,
we Martin is going to and everyone else does not
make sure we stand back and keep about this distance
awake from the cliffs at all times.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Okay, you can see the road. You can see that
fences hanging off over there, and so.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
You can see it's changing. And what's happening is change
is happening all the time. Okay, so it doesn't happen
very quickly here. We might at some point another day
possibly go to somewhere where it does a road more quickly.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
We have to be even more careful.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
But yeah, so just be aware that the geology of
the cliffs will affect how quickly it erode.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
So there's you know a lot at the bottom roads
really tweet as well. Where did these cliffs come from?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Anyone know?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Where did all this material come from?
Speaker 10 (09:38):
M do you know?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
It was when the country was covered in ice, So
in the last glaciation, all of this sand and all
of the silts and the other pebbles and things, they
all came straight across the country.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Actually parts of the.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Peak district that I've ended up here former cliffs in Norfolk.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
So that's amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
And if you'd have been here, you know, ten years ago,
the cliffs would have been somewhere over there.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
Rather see is now.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Can tell you that.
Speaker 12 (11:25):
Let's just have the good.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Sue Grime gave us this introduction to the work of
the Coastwise project. Coastal erosion is a natural process and
it has always happened. The coast in North Norfolk is
one of the fastest eroding coastlines in the whole of Europe,
so it is a significant issue for us here. Throughout
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history people have had to adapt to changes in their environment,
ensuring that communities understand coastal processes and the impact that
the climate change might have on the rate of erosion
is fundamental to understanding why we need to adapt and
provides the motivation for people to take action to ensure
they are prepared for those changes. The Coastwise Project is
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working with communities in the coastal erosion risk zone to
help them to prepare for and adapt to coastal change.
We were keen to get involved with the Home Sounds
National Trust Project as it allows an opportunity for students
to explore coastal change in different ways, a truly sensory experience.
Coastal change is happening. Can we see it? Can we
(13:08):
hear it? Beaches the dynamic environments, which means that they
are ever changing. The children were able to hear movements
of sands, silts, and fine gravels within the cliff and
moving along the beach. They were able to hear the
sounds of the waves breaking and sand moving as the
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waves moved beach materials along the shore. They heard the
strum of the tide and interestingly it was more prominent
in the clay layer of the cliff. They heard worms
excavating their tunnels in the sand and the sounds of
shrimp and crabs moving around in the rock.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Wots.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That's right, don't worry. Is annoying now, okay, bringing alight?
Put it in my pocket.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
There is so annoying.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Yeah, you do very well, baby, what what?
Speaker 9 (14:47):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Things trying about a week just broke up.
Speaker 10 (15:11):
Together.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Haysborough is a small village on the northeast coast of Norfolk.
It is a site of ancient human activity, with flint
rus dating back some eight hundred thousand years being excavated there,
as well as a series of footprints of a similar,
if not greater age discovered in sediment below the peach sand.
The footprints were likely made by a group of five
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individuals walking south, who, if they'd looked to their left,
would have, instead of a great sea, seen a vast
expanse of rich and fertile marsh linking Britain with Europe,
known now as Doggland. One current theory is that the
last parts of Dogland were overwhelmed by a great tsunami
(17:36):
brought on by an underwater landslide off the coast of
Norway eight thousand years ago. This theory also estimates that
up to a quarter of the entire Mesolithic population of
Britain lost their lives to this great wave. A second
theory proposes that the tsunami waters receded, but Dogland was
(17:58):
again flooded, this time by a burst in Lake Agasy,
a pro glacial lake in North America, that released enough
fresh water to submerge the area once and for all,
and to make Britain the island it is today. Current
coastal erosion is minor in comparison, but not to the
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people and community living there who can't get mortgages or
house insurance, risk losing their businesses, have to oversee the
demolition of property and plan for more. While at first
perhaps seeming incongruous, environmental listening can be an insightful way
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of exploring these issues, the questions they raise, and the vivid,
evolving history of this place. To this end, we made
our way down to the beach, our first target being
the Haysbur Time and Tide bell, a sculpture by Marcus Fagette.
The chimes with the churning of the tides marking the
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seas advances and echoing many a regional coastal tale of
hearing the bells of some lost church or sunken ship
amongst the burrowing winds and heaving ways. After plugging microphones
into the cliffs and sand and listening, we walked up
to Saint Mary's Church to listen both inside of and
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to the building itself. Here stories of history, culture, and
local politics and want of the churchyard, which, as well
as individual graves, is the resting place for one hundred
and nineteen lost sailors of h Tremss Invincible, wrecked off
Haysborough in eighteen o one. It is perhaps aposite, given
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the ever present senses of impermanence, lost history, and submission
to water in the area, that this mass grave was
discovered by chance by workmen digging a drainage channel. What
will happen to these graves and to the church itself
as the water's approach remains unclear?
Speaker 10 (20:13):
That is, you look at it?
Speaker 8 (20:38):
What's happ.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
Well?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
If I don't know? Later crist going down first only.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Oh my god, look at that?
Speaker 8 (20:56):
So what is that up?
Speaker 10 (21:02):
Don't celiberate for careful, don't be down question, don't come
up to it like walk slowly like.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
We look at all the way.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Your headphones on, you can hear, you can hear this now.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
So if you've got your headphone, okay.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
You're getting sense, you must still turn, so you just
turn the power, turn past, hold you down that waiting
to turn the blue.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
Comes then thank you?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Oh I see ta can hear me?
Speaker 8 (22:02):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
So if I talked, you should be able to him
in your left and then.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
You're writing, Really that's how that's clever?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, so that gives you a sort of sense of
a three.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Yeah, that's really good.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Is that how clever?
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (22:19):
Yeah? You get ye.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Folks, do you want to try with your headsets?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Headphones on? Headphones on?
Speaker 6 (22:32):
You almost want to sing, don't you see?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Dirtly beloved, we are gathered here today.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
So the microphone you're listening on at the moment is
surround sound microphone, So if you move around it, you'll
hear your hear the sound move around or hear people
walk past. Creepy Bob is the microphone. He has one
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microphone in each ear and so it sounds like you're
inside his head. So what you're essentially you're hearing is
what's going on inside Creepy Bob's head. So you see,
if I walk around, if you can hear me? Now
and you're left here presumably. Now if I'm over here,
you can hear in your right here, so you might
(23:47):
hear you know, mister Chadwick's talking over there, you can
probably hear him in your in your right here.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
So remember we've been on other sessions, we've talked about
how sound. But there's a sound going on all around
us that we can't necessarily hear because it's either too
low in frequency or it's too high. So there's lots
of low frequency going on at the moment that we
can't our ears won't be able to hear. But if
we use these mics, then we'll be able.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
To hear them.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, is there anything that is there anything in the
church that might make a sound? Sort of sounds are
in the church, yeah, apart apart from us, but there's
lots of different things up there.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Something sounds like watching what.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
The songs?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I like a players were allowed to play it. I
don't know, sometimes.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
About Christmas.
Speaker 10 (26:49):
Christmas song then.
Speaker 11 (27:19):
Pepper, I think, take these things.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You've been listening to. Thanks go to the children and
staff of Sidestround School and to Sue Grime of the
Coastwise Project. If you'd like to keep listening, please subscribe
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(28:48):
can also visit homesounds dot org, where you will find
many more opportunities to actively listen and numerous ways to
support and get involved with the Home Sounds project. Links
relating to this episode can be found in the description
Thanks for listening, and welcome home everybody.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
M
M hmm.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Welcome home, everybody, and welcome to the Home Sounds Show.
My name is Martin and I'm a field recordistant teacher.
I'm the creator of the Home Sounds Project and your
co host for the show along with Rob.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hello everybody. My name is Rob and I'm an educator
a naturalist. I work for the Vascal Trust at Sheringham
Park in Norfolk as part of their Children and Young
People Hub. The Home Sound Show invites every one to
become active environmental listeners. Each month we visit a different location,
seeking out seasonal natural sound and focusing on a different theme.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
In this episode, I along with Sue Grime from North
Norfolk District Council's Coastwise Project, take our Side Strand School
group on a trip to West Runton Beach. West Ronton
forms part of the Deep History Coast, a twenty two
mile section of North Norfolk shore line, famously home, amongst
other ancient treasures, to the remains of a six hundred
(01:41):
thousand year old step mammoth, the bones of rhinos, hyaenas
and bears, chalk rock pools that reveal rich bounties of fossils.
As the tide goes out, footprints and tools of our
ancient human ancestors, and our contemporary focus for this trip
a line of cliffs that are slowly giving themselves to
(02:03):
the sea soon and I were then joined by Rob
on a second trip to the village of Haysborough, another
section of this deep history coast that is disappearing, though
in this instance much more quickly than that of West Runton.
Here we explore the beach, the cliff tops, and Saint
(02:24):
Mary's Church, a religious site that has been watching the
advancing sea for over a thousand years and that some
time in the next hundred will be undermined by the
water's wearing motion and the grounds submission to it. Our
aims were to listen to the cliffs and the rock pools,
(02:45):
the sea and the sand, and the soon to be
lost topography of these places, and also to explore more
generally the physical, human, and of most interest to us,
acoustic nature of coastal erosion. So you know that we're
(03:06):
missing somebody who's normally here, which is Rob. Rob can't
make it today.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
So instead what we've done is we have well, we
had a connected with two who works at the district
council and you work on the Coastal Coast COASTWISE project.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
I don't know if anybody has heard of it, but
I know that there wasn't Greek from your school that
they've come to have a talk about our projects. And
I think maybe some.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Older students in your school that came earlier in the year.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
And essentially the post WISE project is the project which
is supporting communities and people who live on the coast
where there's going to be sort of coastal erosion where
there's a risk that they might lose their property or
their business, or they might lose the car path or
the play area or any of that sort of community
recordings over the edge of the cliff and for erosion.
(03:56):
So have you all heard of coast of erosion before?
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, well fantastic. So what we're going to
do today.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Part of what we're going to be doing today is
listening for movements, see if we can hear that oroginals,
if we can hear that change happening.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
So that's what I've thought be really exciting for us
to do today.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
And so part of what I do on the project
is helping people to understand what happens at the coast
and be ready for coastal change, and I thought you
guys could really help me to capture some of the
sounds associated with that today. So yeah, that would be fantastic,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So it's going to be a day of exploration. For
the day of hunting, we're essentially going to be hunting
out sound, but also we thought we might spend some
time in the afternoon and lotos looking for fossils and animals.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
And I picked it up.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And we might try and reports we see if there's
life in there. Aren't there things living in.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
The net phone Brook told me this morning she remembered
what the what was it called the microphone that you
might put in the hydrophone?
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Yeah, that I remembered it from last year.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, those of you got a new A hydrophone is
a special type of microphone that you can put under
the water and then you can listen to what's going
on under the water. And so because we're talking about
coastal erosion today, we're thinking about the thing that makes.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
The coastal erosion is the sea.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
So we're kind of looking at all the different where
we might find sounds along the coast in the edge,
and so to do that We've got a couple of
ways we're going to do it. We do some groupless
thing together. We're going to go down to the beach.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
We're going to.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Plug in a plus of microphones into the twits and
see if you think of it, what day is but.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
But also I'm going to set you some challenges and
give you some equipment with some microphones to go out
and try to capture some sounds. And I'm all show
you how to do that. And yes, so it's a
kind of a bit of a bit of listening, but
then a bit of you've got a mission, got a.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Mission to prof.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So yeah, so that's the plan. Any questions you have
you all been here before that respect some.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yet have you been here for see?
Speaker 8 (06:34):
I'm sure I have been.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Beres also been.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
And yeah, so have some here?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:44):
So have you seen have you seen the mammoth over there?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Because they took a mamoth out of the clift, didn't
they in the nineteen nineties, And there's.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
A bit of information about that history posts.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Of confers here the hoping time about a.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Fan ancient elephant in the cliff.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Yes, yes, yes, so you never know what might might
find something exciting.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yes, okay, so where we're going to head.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Off to first?
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I think we go down to the right.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
There's a bit of beach because it's very high tight.
There's a spring tide so it comes up really high,
but there is enough beach for us to go and
have a look.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
And then this afternoon we look at the rock pools,
which are more down towards that hand side.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
All right, okay, it sounds great.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Should we just hand moment very stop the second and
have a look at the cliffs?
Speaker 10 (07:46):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (07:46):
What can we see on these cliffs?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Can we see the layers of different materials in the
cliff cracks?
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Yeah, definitely? What else can we see? What's another word
for the soil is a bound?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Now, yes, they have found the man I've been here.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
In the ninety nineties, and then they've found a new.
Speaker 11 (08:06):
Elephant somewhere along here.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
I'm not sure where. But so what else?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
What other layers can we see? What's this yellowya stuff
at the bottom here? So that's the sandy layer. And
then what about over to the right hand side. Can
you see like a brown layer at the.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Bottom that's clay? Well done? Okay, So what happens here.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
When it rains on the top there, there's water filters through.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
The cliff, and then when it gets.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
This clay layer, it kind of stops because water doesn't
go through clay.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
It kind of holds the.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Water there, and then all of a sudden all the
sand and the other materials on top will slip off,
and that's how we get.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
The cliff slips.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
And you can see here there's been actually one very
recently because it's really fresh and there's.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
No plants growing on that steps just there. So we
have a really really careful of these cliffs.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
And so when we're going to do the actual cliff listening,
we Martin is going to and everyone else does not
make sure we stand back and keep about this distance
awake from the cliffs at all times.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Okay, you can see the road. You can see that
fences hanging off over there, and so.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
You can see it's changing. And what's happening is change
is happening all the time. Okay, so it doesn't happen
very quickly here. We might at some point another day
possibly go to somewhere where it does a road more quickly.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
We have to be even more careful.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
But yeah, so just be aware that the geology of
the cliffs will affect how quickly it erode.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
So there's you know a lot at the bottom roads
really tweet as well. Where did these cliffs come from?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Anyone know?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Where did all this material come from?
Speaker 10 (09:38):
M do you know?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
It was when the country was covered in ice, So
in the last glaciation, all of this sand and all
of the silts and the other pebbles and things, they
all came straight across the country.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Actually parts of the.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Peak district that I've ended up here former cliffs in Norfolk.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
So that's amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
And if you'd have been here, you know, ten years ago,
the cliffs would have been somewhere over there.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
Rather see is now.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Can tell you that.
Speaker 12 (11:25):
Let's just have the good.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Sue Grime gave us this introduction to the work of
the Coastwise project. Coastal erosion is a natural process and
it has always happened. The coast in North Norfolk is
one of the fastest eroding coastlines in the whole of Europe,
so it is a significant issue for us here. Throughout
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history people have had to adapt to changes in their environment,
ensuring that communities understand coastal processes and the impact that
the climate change might have on the rate of erosion
is fundamental to understanding why we need to adapt and
provides the motivation for people to take action to ensure
they are prepared for those changes. The Coastwise Project is
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working with communities in the coastal erosion risk zone to
help them to prepare for and adapt to coastal change.
We were keen to get involved with the Home Sounds
National Trust Project as it allows an opportunity for students
to explore coastal change in different ways, a truly sensory experience.
Coastal change is happening. Can we see it? Can we
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hear it? Beaches the dynamic environments, which means that they
are ever changing. The children were able to hear movements
of sands, silts, and fine gravels within the cliff and
moving along the beach. They were able to hear the
sounds of the waves breaking and sand moving as the
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waves moved beach materials along the shore. They heard the
strum of the tide and interestingly it was more prominent
in the clay layer of the cliff. They heard worms
excavating their tunnels in the sand and the sounds of
shrimp and crabs moving around in the rock.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Wots.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That's right, don't worry. Is annoying now, okay, bringing alight?
Put it in my pocket.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
There is so annoying.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Yeah, you do very well, baby, what what?
Speaker 9 (14:47):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Things trying about a week just broke up.
Speaker 10 (15:11):
Together.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Haysborough is a small village on the northeast coast of Norfolk.
It is a site of ancient human activity, with flint
rus dating back some eight hundred thousand years being excavated there,
as well as a series of footprints of a similar,
if not greater age discovered in sediment below the peach sand.
The footprints were likely made by a group of five
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individuals walking south, who, if they'd looked to their left,
would have, instead of a great sea, seen a vast
expanse of rich and fertile marsh linking Britain with Europe,
known now as Doggland. One current theory is that the
last parts of Dogland were overwhelmed by a great tsunami
(17:36):
brought on by an underwater landslide off the coast of
Norway eight thousand years ago. This theory also estimates that
up to a quarter of the entire Mesolithic population of
Britain lost their lives to this great wave. A second
theory proposes that the tsunami waters receded, but Dogland was
(17:58):
again flooded, this time by a burst in Lake Agasy,
a pro glacial lake in North America, that released enough
fresh water to submerge the area once and for all,
and to make Britain the island it is today. Current
coastal erosion is minor in comparison, but not to the
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people and community living there who can't get mortgages or
house insurance, risk losing their businesses, have to oversee the
demolition of property and plan for more. While at first
perhaps seeming incongruous, environmental listening can be an insightful way
(18:39):
of exploring these issues, the questions they raise, and the vivid,
evolving history of this place. To this end, we made
our way down to the beach, our first target being
the Haysbur Time and Tide bell, a sculpture by Marcus Fagette.
The chimes with the churning of the tides marking the
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seas advances and echoing many a regional coastal tale of
hearing the bells of some lost church or sunken ship
amongst the burrowing winds and heaving ways. After plugging microphones
into the cliffs and sand and listening, we walked up
to Saint Mary's Church to listen both inside of and
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to the building itself. Here stories of history, culture, and
local politics and want of the churchyard, which, as well
as individual graves, is the resting place for one hundred
and nineteen lost sailors of h Tremss Invincible, wrecked off
Haysborough in eighteen o one. It is perhaps aposite, given
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the ever present senses of impermanence, lost history, and submission
to water in the area, that this mass grave was
discovered by chance by workmen digging a drainage channel. What
will happen to these graves and to the church itself
as the water's approach remains unclear?
Speaker 10 (20:13):
That is, you look at it?
Speaker 8 (20:38):
What's happ.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
Well?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
If I don't know? Later crist going down first only.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Oh my god, look at that?
Speaker 8 (20:56):
So what is that up?
Speaker 10 (21:02):
Don't celiberate for careful, don't be down question, don't come
up to it like walk slowly like.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
We look at all the way.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Your headphones on, you can hear, you can hear this now.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
So if you've got your headphone, okay.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
You're getting sense, you must still turn, so you just
turn the power, turn past, hold you down that waiting
to turn the blue.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
Comes then thank you?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Oh I see ta can hear me?
Speaker 8 (22:02):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
So if I talked, you should be able to him
in your left and then.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
You're writing, Really that's how that's clever?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, so that gives you a sort of sense of
a three.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Yeah, that's really good.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Is that how clever?
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (22:19):
Yeah? You get ye.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Folks, do you want to try with your headsets?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Headphones on? Headphones on?
Speaker 6 (22:32):
You almost want to sing, don't you see?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Dirtly beloved, we are gathered here today.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
So the microphone you're listening on at the moment is
surround sound microphone, So if you move around it, you'll
hear your hear the sound move around or hear people
walk past. Creepy Bob is the microphone. He has one
(23:19):
microphone in each ear and so it sounds like you're
inside his head. So what you're essentially you're hearing is
what's going on inside Creepy Bob's head. So you see,
if I walk around, if you can hear me? Now
and you're left here presumably. Now if I'm over here,
you can hear in your right here, so you might
(23:47):
hear you know, mister Chadwick's talking over there, you can
probably hear him in your in your right here.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
So remember we've been on other sessions, we've talked about
how sound. But there's a sound going on all around
us that we can't necessarily hear because it's either too
low in frequency or it's too high. So there's lots
of low frequency going on at the moment that we
can't our ears won't be able to hear. But if
we use these mics, then we'll be able.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
To hear them.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, is there anything that is there anything in the
church that might make a sound? Sort of sounds are
in the church, yeah, apart apart from us, but there's
lots of different things up there.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Something sounds like watching what.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
The songs?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I like a players were allowed to play it. I
don't know, sometimes.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
About Christmas.
Speaker 10 (26:49):
Christmas song then.
Speaker 11 (27:19):
Pepper, I think, take these things.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You've been listening to. Thanks go to the children and
staff of Sidestround School and to Sue Grime of the
Coastwise Project. If you'd like to keep listening, please subscribe
to the Home Sounds Show through your podcast provider, or
visit the Home Sound Show on spreaker dot com. You
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can also visit homesounds dot org, where you will find
many more opportunities to actively listen and numerous ways to
support and get involved with the Home Sounds project. Links
relating to this episode can be found in the description
Thanks for listening, and welcome home everybody.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
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