Kelvinbank, a Caledonian Railway project.

Sounds of the Edwardian era, an interesting concept. Apart from the horses, carts and churchbells I wonder what other sounds would have come from the Townscape. Perhaps a distant shout or two, including from someone trying to sell their goods - but maybe not so much else really?  If I think how a big city sounds nowadays, it's almost all transport sounds. If you took those away, things would be pretty quiet! So maybe you've captured most of it already.

 

Then there's the trains themselves of course...

6 hours ago, Mikkel said:

If I think how a big city sounds nowadays, it's almost all transport sounds. If you took those away, things would be pretty quiet!

Alternatively, if you took those away, the other sounds wouldn't be so drowned out?

 

There was a great deal more mechanical industry in towns and cities 110+ years ago. It was more labour intensive, factories were built in the middle of residential areas (or more accurately, factories were built and residential areas sprung up around them) and although there was more manual labour than nowadays, the mechanisation was a lot noisier.

 

Add to this the location of Kelvinbank, with shipyards nearby, and there would be some sounds carrying over. The question is, how much? How muffled?

 

I'd agree, the nature of urban sound has changed, traffic particularly busses and lorries do seem to be the predominant sound these days. It is a valid point about manufacture, all the local factories have gone so that is no longer part of the soundscape. 

 

There was a foundry and a boiler works close to Partick Central, and two shipyards within half a mile. My guess would be that the sound that travelled furthest from them would have been hot rivetting. Add to that all the sounds from the Clyde itself, hundreds of ship movements daily. 

 

Further research needed I think, depends on what turns up in film archives. 

2 hours ago, Dave John said:

Further research needed I think, depends on what turns up in film archives. 

They might be silent movies!

Heh , well, the problem is that strictly speaking anything from the Edwardian era would be silent.  I suppose what might be about would be film about traditional manufacturing methods or transport which reflects the era.