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As a Canadian living in England for the last 8 years, there's so much that feels like home now. And there are certain SOUNDS that actually remind me of the UK!
Check out these 9 unusual sounds that remind me of England - and my new home here!
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@GeoffKippsBolton 17 дней назад

I heard a piece on the radio a while ago. The widow of the man who recorded the "Mind the gap" announcement found that the system had been updated and the recording of her late husbands announcement had gone. She was understandably saddened, so she wrote to London Transport to ask if they could supply her with a copy of the recording. They did better than that, they reinstated the recording on her local tube station, so whenever she goes anywhere on the tube, her husband makes the announcement to "Mind the gap"

@jbaldwin1970 23 дня назад

“Unexpected item in the bagging area” is what I want played at my funeral as the coffin is wheeled into the furnace…

@S.p.a.c.e.C.o.w.b.o.y 23 дня назад

Haha 😅

@AdventuresAndNaps 23 дня назад

😂

@annagodsave5402 23 дня назад

🤣 Perfect!!!

@erikafrance 17 дней назад

Brilliant! 😂😂😂😂

@gerardacronin334 16 дней назад

I hear that every time I shop in Canada!

@nickallen3318 21 день назад

Pearl & Dean theme is called “Asteroids” written in 1968 by Pete Moore. He was a good friend of my folks - good fella. Have a great week.

@user-se7es6uc8v 11 дней назад

I used to have this as my phone ringtone.

@nigelsmith6077 7 дней назад

Had this for phone ringtone

@simonwatson5299 23 дня назад

I loved the fact you used a really british phrase, and didn't notice. You said '......Standing there like a Lemon'. And you didn't batter an eyelid, lol. xxx

@stumccabe 23 дня назад

I think you mean "bat an eyelid" not "batter an eyelid".🤣

@simonwatson5299 23 дня назад

@@stumccabe Yep, totally pisspronounced my worms!

@kendee4421 23 дня назад

Not many people know that is rhyming slang - 'lemon curd'. I won't say what it rhymes with but it was mostly used when someone was 'sold a lemon' - something that was no good.

@chrisshelley3027 23 дня назад

@@stumccabemaybe she punched someone in the eye 😅

@stumccabe 23 дня назад

@@simonwatson5299 Excellent response Simon!👍

@richinleam 23 дня назад

There's a lovely story about the "Mind the gap" voice. Oswald Laurence was a theatre actor and lived in London with his wife, Dr Margaret McCollum, until his death in 2007. Margaret was devastated at the loss of her husband, but one place where she could relive the happy memories was on the platform at Embankment station, where she would sit and listen to Oswald’s voice. One day in November 2012, she made her regular visit to the platform only to find her husband was no longer there as the PA system had been updated. Deeply saddened by what had happened, Margaret was comforted by station staff, who were unaware of the value the previous recording held for her. As the PA system had now been digitalized, it seemed an almost impossible ask to retrieve the tapes and reinstate the announcement with Oswald’s voice. However, Transport for London staff delved deep into the archives and found the old tapes, which were digitalized and restored. If you ever visit the Northbound platform of the Northern line at Embankment station, the voice of Oswald lives on to the present day.

@miaschu8175 20 дней назад

That is quite beautiful.

@karlgookey 19 дней назад

Is it his recording that just constantly goes "MIND THE GAP, MIND THE GAP, MIND THE GAP"? I prefer that one to "mind the gap between the train and the platform".

@richinleam 18 дней назад

@@karlgookey Yes, the original booming voice.

@erikafrance 17 дней назад

That is one of the things that made me fall in love with England. The appreciation, the care... what a heartwarming story ❤

@RoyCousins 23 дня назад

"Cashier number three, please."

@AdventuresAndNaps 23 дня назад

😂 great one!

@scmtuk3662 23 дня назад

"Please remove the item from the bagging area" "Please place the item in the bagging area" "An assistant is coming to help you" "Payment declined" "Please try again"

@thisnthat42 14 дней назад

The Post Office? I haven’t heard that one for a while since our Post Office was relocated into WHSmiths.

@caphowdy666 22 дня назад

53 years old, lived in England all my life, never heard someone ask a magpie how it's wife is.

@alsner73 20 дней назад

I always greet magpies, have done since I was a small kid in the 70s, something I've picked up from grandparents.

@thekiteflyer1 20 дней назад

Me neither and i'm 65

@robh8403 20 дней назад

My parents (who where born in the 1930s) would always say 'Good morning/afternoon/evening Mr magpie we're on our way to....' and state their destination, they said it was bad luck to do otherwise.

@philallen7626 20 дней назад

I thought you were meant to salute them? Probably varies by region.

@markprior1720 19 дней назад

I'm 53 ive heard it loads

@sallycostello8379 23 дня назад

Wow. Pearl & Dean jingle at the cinema is so nostalgic and old! Yes!

@emdiar6588 23 дня назад

I can't hear it without thinking of the Milton Jones joke: "My parents names were Pearl and Dean, or as we called them, Mama and Papa-papa-papa-papa Papapaaah."

@Elwaves2925 23 дня назад

There used to be an audible groan whenever that came on. Years after they'd changed it the original came back once and it got a cheer.

@sie4431 23 дня назад

I believe it was library music. For those who don't know Pearl and Dean are/were a company that sold pre-film slots to advertisers

@j0hnf_uk 22 дня назад

Asteroid by Peter Moore, 1968.

@BenHardy 22 дня назад

Reminds me of that song: 'MacArthur park.'

@jillybrooke29 23 дня назад

Wood pigeons

@gphill3954 23 дня назад

@@jillybrooke29 yes.. I think they would. But should they?

@gdfggggg 23 дня назад

lol. Blackbirds sitting on the gable of your house, chirping away.

@Russell-w9k 23 дня назад

They be Collared Doves i reckons, ms Brooke.

@gillianrimmer7733 22 дня назад

The way to tell the difference is that the call of collared doves has 3 'syllables' - a pigeon's call has 5 'syllables' - obviously, they're not syllables, but it's the only way I can think to describe it. They just have the same 3 or 5 syllable/beats coos over and over again.

@j0hnf_uk 22 дня назад

@@Russell-w9k Correct! But, you can't beat a male blackbird aloft a tree or chimney pot singing his heart out during dusk.

@alicejade3657 17 дней назад

I always used to hear those birds in the morning outside my bedroom in my childhood house - I was told they're wood pigeons. I quite like them as they only really make noise when I'm awake and it's quite comforting.

@jeffgraham6387 23 дня назад

The BBC radio 'pips' on the hour...Big Ben chimes...the drum roll at the start of the National Anthem...Dr Who music...the sound of a Merlin engine when a Spitfire flies overhead (I'm near Beachy Head so that happens a lot)...the noise of an Underground train approaching...'Mind the Doors' and the accompanying beeps!...what have you started Alanna!

@jonathangriffin1120 19 дней назад

Yes, the Rolls-Royce Merlin! - "An exhaust note composed by Elgar!" - Alain de Cadanet...

@shaunfarrell3834 23 дня назад

Let us not forget the Shipping Forecast!

@gphill3954 23 дня назад

Good call!

@michaelstamper5604 23 дня назад

"Aldi, Lidl, Tescoing later. That is the end of the shopping forecast" 😃

@leeharveydarke 23 дня назад

The most beautiful of all the sounds

@janiceturton7756 23 дня назад

i love the shipping forecast so soothing. Only tend to listen to it in the car usually when up early to go on holiday x

@tonys1636 23 дня назад

It's very handy living close to the coast of the sea areas covered in it. Even if only to know if going to be invaded by Seagulls dodging the worst of a force 8.

@micko5664 23 дня назад

1 for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for girl and 4 for a boy, 5 for silver, 6 for gold, 7 for a secret never to be told.

@andrewbutler7681 23 дня назад

Ah, Susan Stranks and Tony Bastable!

@iainwasson6822 23 дня назад

8 a wish, 9 a kiss, 10 is a bird you must not miss - Theme song from 1970s ITV kids' show called Magpie. It was intended as a slightly hipper version of the Blue Peter style magazine show.

@0utcastAussie 23 дня назад

@@iainwasson6822 Magpie & How were great early 70's shows

@williamjackson2089 23 дня назад

8's a wish, 9's a kiss 10 is a bird you must not miss. Some people say, "Good morning Mr Magpie, how are your wife and children." I can't remember if they say afternoon if that's appropriate.

@rayg4360 23 дня назад

@@andrewbutler7681 Language !

@Stuski666 23 дня назад

The last orders bell in a pub.... Followed too soon after by "Time ladies and gentlemen please"😊

@greghilton7797 23 дня назад

I Totally agree. 😁

@TrickyDicky2006 23 дня назад

A friend of mine had moved from the U.S and he said the thing that makes him know he's in England is hearing 'BOLLOCKS!' when someone messes something up 🤣 (usually dropping car keys)

@AdventuresAndNaps 23 дня назад

😂

@betagombar9022 23 дня назад

😂

@lucylane7397 23 дня назад

I like making a pigs ear

@Olichi60 23 дня назад

Using the word 'Cinema' is also very British. Here in Canada I find it confusing when people say they are going to the theatre when they are going to watch a film, even after 27 years of living here. For me it is the sound of sea gulls that most reminds me of home in the UK.

@user-ze5tu4ck1t 2 дня назад

I'm English and 1st time I went abroad with my wife, in the 70s to Spain 🇪🇸, I remember sitting on a beach and thinking something very different from a beach holiday in the UK 🇬🇧 ( apart from Language and Sun ) obviously and it niddled me for a bit until it Suddenly dawned on me No sea Gulls .I couldn't hear the raucous crys of Sea Gulls .

@davidjones332 23 дня назад

We often don't notice how the soundscape around us is changing. The childhood sounds I remember most clearly are the rasp of a Morris Minor's exhaust on the overrun, the jingle of glass milk bottles in metal crates combined with the whine of an electric float early in the morning, the "be ready" bell ringing on a station platform to signal the approach of a train, the whistle of a shunting steam engine and squeal of loose-coupled goods wagons in the night, and the rag and bone man's cry in the street. Nowadays my local buses have a recorded voice that says "Gerroff 'ere for th'ospital".

@jeankennedy5445 18 дней назад

I know what you mean. When I was very little (in the early sixties) I remember being woken at about 6.00am to the sound of the clip clop of the milkman's pony. The same with the rag and bone man who would yell out his unintelligible call for scrap metal. We even had horse drawn coal carts for a while. Then they were replaced with the whine of the electric milk float and the deep rumble of the coal lorry. But even they're gone now. So nostalgic.

@crocsmart5115 23 дня назад

Sparrows. We forget that the most common birds sing most sweetly! We are blessed to have a recurring family under the eaves.

@eeclass20 23 дня назад

The jingle of the ice cream van !

@AdventuresAndNaps 23 дня назад

☺️🍦

@leightaylor8069 23 дня назад

"When the jingles play, that means they have run out of ice cream" - Bad Parent!

@caw25sha 23 дня назад

Particularly Greensleeves stopping abruptly half way through a note.

@stephenmann7374 22 дня назад

Eric Morecambe looking out of the window when he hears a siren, "He won't sell many ice creams going at that speed".I

@slysneakly6465 21 день назад

@@caw25sha Every van in every place I've ever lived in in the UK always plays bloody Greensleeves! EVERYWHERE!!

@alex.konstantinov 9 дней назад

True. Same for me. Smells and sounds - are the magic that might send you, in a heart beat, to the places you used to be living in.

@adrianmcgrath1984 23 дня назад

On my rare trips back to the UK, which are usually at Christmas time, waking up - especially on the first day, has a very British soundtrack of crows cawing in the trees in the garden, the irritating beeping music of BBC breakfast tv, which my mother has on a small tv in the kitchen, the loud clack that terminates the sound of an electric kettle boiling as it turns itself off, and the clatter of the letter box as the mail is delivered. None of these are sounds that I ever hear for years on end, but are absolutely part of the British soundscape.

@petebrown6356 23 дня назад

Yeah...the crows in the early am, cawing in the silence.

@billb207 12 дней назад

I have heard the Pearl and Dean music at the cinema for as long as I can remember, and I am 56.

@daftirishmarej1827 23 дня назад

Blackbirds at dawn and dusk. They're such a treat!

@eugenegilleno9344 20 дней назад

…..only in the Spring and early Summer unfortunately. 😁👍🏼

@jeepsthetimebandit 16 дней назад

The words to the magpie rhyme were changed for the kids tv show of the same name. They made it child friendly. I'm old enough to remember the real words which most people have either forgotten or aren't as old as me. 1 for sorrow, 2 for mirth. 3 for a death and 4 for a birth. 5 for silver, 6 for gold. 7 for a secret never to be told.

@sallycostello8379 23 дня назад

The Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio is another for me. Been around forever.

@stewartbrodie1720 22 дня назад

I like the automated train announcements too, particular the ones on Great Northern trains with the pregnant pause in the middle of 'Welcome aboard this ... service to Cambridge' which just makes it sound totally sarcastic. For some reason, the train company name is just missing - it's been like that for years.

@PeleRana-pp6zc 23 дня назад

The sound of a kettle boiling. Magpies having a loud conversation at 5 am outside my window, in the trees. The barking of a neighbour’s dog on a quiet weekend afternoon( I like it)

@rhysferris1996 22 дня назад

In wales I’ve not heard anyone say “good morning Mr. Magpie” however many people salute to magpies, myself included, regardless of how many are together. My brother salutes 3 timers PER magpie. Yes he looks like he’s clinically insane when passing 4 or more magpies

@daniellelewis8171 21 день назад

I'm from Wales too and have said "good morning" or "good afternoon Mr magpie, how are you today?" But not really everytime. For some reason I can't explain to myself, I have to salute a single magpie as this is bad luck or will bring sorrow if not, but I won't for 2 (for joy) etc. I wouldn't even say i am superstitious it just happens Haa 😂

@janiceturton7756 23 дня назад

Im nearly 62 and that Pearl and Deans music was played in cinemas when i was a kid

@kek23k 22 дня назад

The Pearl & Dean theme brought back some memories!

@simonbisset4842 23 дня назад

'Whhheeeyyyy!" if you drop a glass in the pub. Church bells, deffo. Very different to European ones. The warning noise at a railway level crossing. If you live in Southport (near Liverpool) the honking of the pink-footed geese flying from the inland fields to the coastal marsh every night during the season. They kept me sane while I was lying awake at boarding school, and I will be forever grateful.

@leohickey4953 23 дня назад

For many years those geese used to fly directly over our house in Maghull on my birthday (October), without fail, whether or not they did on any other day of the year.

@danem7055 23 дня назад

Church bells on a Sunday morning. The sound of frying bacon.... one more... that wave of conversation and voices that meets you as you walk into a busy local pub

@billyhills9933 23 дня назад

Bell practice on a Tuesday evening.

@danem7055 23 дня назад

@@billyhills9933 I seem to remember ours being on a Wednesday evening but I could be wrong. The church was really close though!

@helentomlinson6606 21 день назад

The whistling sound of a kettle coming to the boil

@awall1701 23 дня назад

Pearl and Dean brings back memories. When I was teen, I remember the cinema filled with teenagers singing along to Pearl and Dean, popcorn flying. I just remember crying with laughter as I had never seen anything like it before.

@mej6519 23 дня назад

Saturday morning cinema:)

@DarylPaterson 23 дня назад

Yes, not heard it (until now) for about 15 years but I will remember it for my whole life! As for why it's there, weren't they the marketing company who arranged all the ad's and trailors?

@mej6519 22 дня назад

@@DarylPaterson we had local ads, the local steak house, the local fish n chips shop, which coincidently opened just as saturday morning cinema closed, the local cobblers where mum would take you to get your shoes repaired etc.

@NataliePine 18 дней назад

Milton Jones used to joke "My grandparents are Pearl and Dean - or as we call them, Grandma and Grandpa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-papapa"

@jasonsmart3482 23 дня назад

I think for me when I came back to the UK after living abroad it was church bells. Oh god - no pun intended - I hated them as a kid as my parents house was near the church and woke me up - now I love them.

@timstradling7764 23 дня назад

Oh yes definitely church bells. All peals are different and all equally welcome at practise midweek evenings, Sunday service or weddings😊

@chris-hz2wd 21 день назад

That bird sound reminds me of being a teen/early 20s coming home from a night out, drunk, happy, been a good night blissfully ignorant of the rotten hangover I’m about to experience 😂 good times haha

@spoonunit03 23 дня назад

I always seem to live within the sound of church bells. ATM, this includes bell ringing practice every Wednesday 7pm-9pm. Can be a pain during a hot summer with the windows open. Ah, to be in England. :)

@f3aok 23 дня назад

Just be thankful you don't live near a mosque.

@georgeharrison5362 15 дней назад

The sound of a rubber dingy being pulled up a beach and a thousand feet running in gravel.

@ghytredstillghytred7617 23 дня назад

As soon as you said 'Pearl & Dean' I knew exactly what the sound was. I haven't been to the cinema for 30+ years. Brought back quite a few memories! Thank you!

@BaddaBigBoom 12 дней назад

I used to like the sound of the brake pumps going just before setting off on the old slammy door trains. They went "Scrotum, scrotum, scrotum, scrotum, scrotum, scrotum, scrotummmmmmmmmm"

@richardbeaton7324 23 дня назад

Sounds that remind me of England is the sound of SeaGulls in the morning ( I live in Cornwall .. It's relentless but also nice ) Also what i find funny is when two people both say .. Hey ! You Alright ? ... And neither of them actually say how they are haha.

@howardkey1639 23 дня назад

Alanna, when ever I get on a train these days I'm always worried that the announcement will say " Welcome aboard, this is the South Eastern train service to Hell"🤣 . Also look up the story about the Mind the gap announcement a Embankment Tube station in London, it will bring a tear to your eye.

@graybeard2569 23 дня назад

"Last orders please!" - do they even say that now? That used to be the call at 22:50 before the pubs stopped serving at 23:00.

@priscillas.5314 23 дня назад

Wasn't it "last call for alcohol"? 😁

@peteince 23 дня назад

@@priscillas.5314 It was the last orders for all drinks. At 11pm they allowed you 20 minutes to finish your drinks, then everybody had to leave as the pub was closing for the night. Some pubs did lock the doors with customers still in, and served after time illegally. This was known as a lock-in.

@Alan_Mac 23 дня назад

Just started watching but if 'the pips' on the hour on Radio 4 isn't included I am rioting.

@AdventuresAndNaps 23 дня назад

I don't listen to the radio 💔

@METALFREAK03 23 дня назад

@@AdventuresAndNaps blasphemy (joking, well, half joking)

@gary.h.turner 23 дня назад

... And the Big Ben bongs!

@Alan_Mac 23 дня назад

@@AdventuresAndNaps Then we need an "I listened to Radio 4 for a week" video...

@seanscanlon9067 23 дня назад

@@AdventuresAndNaps I am a little disappointed Alanna that one of the sounds that reminds you of living here was not: 'Innit bruv'! Or someone calling you a 'bint'!

@anitaherbert1037 19 дней назад

We get owls, wood pigeons, black birds, thrushes, even an occasional peacock and crow making rackets near my bedroom window.

@MaYoRofSMACK 23 дня назад

The hello/goodbye one is such a southern thing. Come further up north (For example I live in Stoke) and that "Hiya, you alright?" becomes "Ay up, duck yer orate?". And the "See ya later, bye, bye" becomes "See yer in a bit, duck t'ra".

@Deano-Dron81 23 дня назад

🤣 Such a mix up throughout the country, but everyone would understand, at least most would. I love it.

@user-ki2jp1cp3o 23 дня назад

When someone drops a plate in a pub and everyone goes “WHEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYY” and claps

@PaulMawdsley68 6 дней назад

1 for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for a girl, 4 four a boy, 5 for silver, 6 for gold, 7 for a secret never to be told. Magpies mate for life, seeing a lone Magpie is (possibly) sorrowful as that Magpie may actually be forever alone!

@Ryan-ze7fk 16 дней назад

My house backs onto a train station so all those announcements are burned into my brain. I hear them in my dreams.

@mirvids5036 12 дней назад

Railway station. Seeing as how we're talking about British / English things rather than American.

@irreverend_ 11 дней назад

One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a funeral, four for a birth. That's the magpie rhyme I first knew, although I am aware there are several different ones, that's still my favourite.

@gphill3954 23 дня назад

The cheer when someone smashes/drops a glass in a pub

@Stuski666 23 дня назад

@@gphill3954 "Sack The juggler" 😄

@mrvwbug4423 7 дней назад

I've only been to the UK once for a week long vacation, and the most iconically British sound I would instantly recognize from that trip is ironically "Annie" the automated announcer in UK railway stations haha. Also "see it, say it, sorted" haha

@mfrost71w 17 дней назад

The Magpie thing probably goes back a 1000 years. The greeting varies regionally - where I grew up it was "Good Morning Captain"

@rnp497 23 дня назад

Bless you for the sneezes

@auldfouter8661 23 дня назад

Our farmhouse was close to the byre ( at one time the buildings were all in a continuous line) . In winter when you came home late and drew up to the back door , on switching the car engine off you'd hear the gentle clinking of the cows chains in the byre. In summer time it would be all quite as it would still be light and they'd be out in the fields anyway.

@SimonDanson 23 дня назад

I was in a bar recently in Wollongong and a magpie strolled in and yes, I said 'Good morning Mr Magpie how is your wife? ' Fellow drinkers thought this very strange and wanted an explanation. Apparently this bird comes in every day for lunch from the manager. Another thing we often heard when I was learning taking teeth out in Leicester Square Royal London was 'Mind the gap: stand clear of the doors please.' We would say this just as the tooth was coming out and the patient knew then that their ordeal was ending.

@shed66215 23 дня назад

See a magpie when out cycling, I say 'Good morning Captain' - don't do the salute though

@Tbuy1 День назад

One for sorrow. Two for joy. Three for a girl. Four four a boy. Five for silver and six for gold. Seven for a secret that has never been told.

@patrickslade2715 15 дней назад

Here in Folkestone (Kent) it tends to be seagulls rather than doves. They are very loud and there are lots of them. The additional feature of the seagull is that they make it fairly pointless to wash your car as you can almost be guaranteed to have the little treasures drop something messy afterwards. My car is supposed to be red without the little white stripes which adorn it all the time!

@allenwalker5840 22 дня назад

I like the way we say “see you later” even to people we know we will never see again

@ladymc2021 6 часов назад

Totally agree! I lived there for 8 years too! Then in amerca I get reverse home sickness when I am here in America for the UK, so very much the same as you lol

@eugeneshadwell6596 23 дня назад

As someone born and bred in the UK I can honestly say that I NEVER heard that 'Good Morning Mr Magpie' thing until I was in my late 20's when my girlfriend of the time uttered it and I looked at her like she'd gone mad. She insisted it was a commonly used expression but, after asking around, I never found anyone else who'd heard it either...

@lucylane7397 23 дня назад

I think it is a southern thing

@eugeneshadwell6596 23 дня назад

@@lucylane7397 You might well be right, I grew up in the North West near Manchester, could indeed by a South thing!

@ShelleyNutting 22 дня назад

I've never heard of it either and I live in the Midlands. Definitely a southern expression

@NahDenDee 22 дня назад

I'm in the north west near Manchester too and I've known this saying all my life!

@richardsinger01 14 дней назад

@@ShelleyNuttingnot a southern thing, it's used all over, but is quite uncommon these days.

@kimballhutchinson2351 14 дней назад

New superstitious fear unlocked. I’d never heard the magpie rhyme before.

@betagombar9022 23 дня назад

Re magpies, its said to bad luck for the lone Magpie as they are normally in pairs. That cinema music takes me back 🙃 I love the sound of Crows (my favourite bird song) lawn mowers, ice cream vans, music for ITV 10pm news (reminds me of laying bed as a child while mum and dad watched the 10pm news in the living room) theme music for Top of the pops, I'm instantly taken back to Thursday evenings in the 70s/80s ❤ I live close to the sea so get the seagulls screeching at 3.30am in the summertime 🙄

@rogerwitte 23 дня назад

Pearl & Dean is a company that sells cinema advertising slots to advertisers

@sandraback7809 23 дня назад

The sound of Big Ben and I don’t even live in London. 🤷‍♀️. I live outside Southampton. We get the occasional Spitfire fly over; all over goosebumps! Blackbirds singing in the garden on a summer evening. 😍😍😍 PS RAIN ON THE WINDOW! Will summer ever turn up🤦‍♀️

@shaunw9270 23 дня назад

The sound of Doves sounds like Wood Pigeons to me. The Magpies we have here are Eurasian Magpies. All birds have their own birdsong... which is why they used to sell vinyl record albums of birdsong .

@charlestaylor9424 23 дня назад

Birds have accents, different songs in different places.

@AutoReport1 23 дня назад

Doves are pigeons. Dove is the Saxon word, pigeon is the Old French. Same thing.

@shaunw9270 23 дня назад

@@AutoReport1 Fair enough. I still have never heard anyone call a Wood Pigeon a Dove .

@lilacfloyd 23 дня назад

Wood Pigeons or Collared Doves are the most likely.

@Elwaves2925 23 дня назад

@@shaunw9270 They aren't the same thing, not in the way AutoReport 1 implies. They are very close and belong to the same bird family but the name dove is given to the smaller varieties and pigeon to the larger ones. So there is a difference, even if it's not much. 🙂

@heskeyisgod8039 23 дня назад

Great video Alanna! Lots of train references, that will please a certain part of your audience 😂

@AdventuresAndNaps 23 дня назад

👀😂

@TheEulerID 23 дня назад

The song Magpie conjures up images of Susan Stranks and Jenny Hanley to me... Nb. The most symbolic sound to me is that of English church bells. Yes, other countries have bells too, but they are hung entirely differently in continental Europe, and that means they can't be rung in the same way.

@kezeveritt-bronze8920 17 дней назад

I live in Essex and we always do "good morning my friend magpie good wishes to you and your family" Also it's 1 for sorrow 2 for joy 3 for a girl 4 for a boy 5 for silver 6 for gold 7 for a secret never to be told..

@dracula5487 23 дня назад

There used to be a kid's programme on TV called Magpie. That is where I learned the song. Later in life I earned the nickname Magpie because I hoarded stuff.................😜

@Swansea32 23 дня назад

Looking at the train clip made me think of Ben Elton and “double seat, double seat, got to get a double seat “

@user-sd3ik9rt6d 23 дня назад

I am also in my 50's

@arlasoft 23 дня назад

Wade ashore through the ripples of the piss lake

@michaeldillon3113 23 дня назад

Sail on by - the last thing on Radio 4 at night . Before you mock - Jarvis Cocker requested on Desert Island Discs.!

@stevet7695 19 дней назад

It's actually called "Sailing By" and was written by Ronald Binge in 1963. It's original use by the BBC was as an easily recognised station identifier for BBC Radio 4 to alert sailors that the shipping forecast was imminent.

@robertmossberger3385 21 день назад

I visited Great Britain 15 years ago on a 21 day driving tour and fell in love with it. Sadly, I haven't been back due to ill health. What really caught my attention were the same words in England meaning something a bit different in the U.S. Dust bin for example. Not used here. I grew up in a midwestern state. A waste paper basket meant "dust bin". Garbage meant kitchen waste. Trash meant useless stuff tossed into the "garbage dump'. Trash also means litter not in a waste container. I just think so many words meaning the same but don't is interesting.

@stevemawer848 9 дней назад

"Mind the gap" may date from 1968 but the Goon Show had a reference to "MInd the Doors" from the Underground in "The Scarlet Capsule" first broadcast on 2nd February 1959. Classic episode. 🙂

@phoenix-xu9xj 22 дня назад

I am 70 years old and I’ve lived in many places around this country and I can honestly say I’ve never ever heard anybody say the good morning Mr magpie thing 🤷‍♀️

@PaulFellows3430 22 дня назад

Nor me, and I'm a 53 yr old Midlander.

@helentomlinson6606 21 день назад

I always salute 1 magpie😂😂

@philipellis7039 22 дня назад

The children’s TV show (as mentioned in other comments) in the 1970s used to do some fund raising from their viewers and they would buy minibuses for Mencap. In the late 1980s I did some work for Mencap and drove around in a very well worn minibus with the Magpie logo on the side.

@clivemason-ms8ju 23 дня назад

I don't often say Hiya, but say You all right very often, or sometimes shorten it to just All right. Also, people will call you 'dear', 'sweetheart', 'love', 'darling', and so forth.

@ursulacosta307 23 дня назад

My family and I immigrated to America when I was 16, so I went back to high school (even though I had finished in England) In the school hallways everyone would say Hi as I walked by, and of course, I was saying HiYa. After a few weeks I decided to start saying Hi and I must say it was so much easier. 😁

@susanashcroft2674 23 дня назад

Other things like The Speaking Clock, dial 123 (not sure from a mobile) on a landline to get the exact time in the UK in an RP accent. There is a rhyme which even as old as I am still say when eating cherries. Once you are left with the discarded stones you count them by saying 'Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief.

@caw25sha 23 дня назад

It used to be TIM(e) or 846 I think therefore the speaking clock was called Tim.

@susanashcroft2674 23 дня назад

@@caw25sha Thanks. I've just dialled it out of curiosity and it's a female voice, although I do remember a man and him saying 'The time sponsored by Accurist is...'

@Bakers_Doesnt 23 дня назад

The bells that used to be on small shop doors; a physical bell not some electronic chime or buzz. Haven't heard one for ages and I've bought one for my own front door instead of an electronic doorbell. It's more like the old servant's bell you'd see in Upstairs Downstairs with a bell on a coiled spring and a pull-cord. Also milk bottles rattling in their crates as they were being delivered. Oh yeah! Skylarks! Doesn't feel like summer til you hear a skylark. And Sid James' laugh.

@chrisreadwells 23 дня назад

I believe Perl & Dean are an advertising agency, and the jingle has been on in British cinemas since at least the 70's. The best bit was the post-localised ads, where there was a generic 'south east' narration with a sudden edit to a different voice for the name of the local service such as an Indian Restaurant or some-such.

@michaels640 12 дней назад

Pearl & Deane; bits of James Bond, bits of McArthur Park!…

@jcasillas78 23 дня назад

Great video! For me it's not a sound but the smell of the underground, not pleasant necessarily but it's definitely "Ah yes, back in London!"

@jackjames3190 23 дня назад

The pearl and dean cinema theme was sampled by Goldbug in their 1996 cover version of "Whole Lotta Love", which peaked at number 3 in the UK Singles Chart and is credited with the resurgence of retro easy music in British popular culture in the 90s through to the 2000s.

@miaschu8175 20 дней назад

QI. TY.

@user-man-guinon80 7 дней назад

Magpies also mate for life. When one dies the mates of the remaining single Magpie come around and they conduct a funeral together.

@Rachel_M_ 23 дня назад

Fun fact. Our birds have regional "accents" in their song. City birds tend to have a higher pitch than country birds.

@andwhynotindeed9526 15 дней назад

Every bird has its own song!

@magicknight8412 16 дней назад

Been on this planet for decades as a Brit and never ever heard Mr Magpie how is your wife today before! The one for sorrow, two for joy etc everyone knows that one :)

@lawrencegt2229 22 дня назад

"Watcher" (coming) "Cheerio" (going) Both from "What cheer (news)?"

@_MisterG 23 дня назад

You know you are truly Britishised when you sing along to the Pearl and Dean tune as you hear it!

@miaschu8175 20 дней назад

Whoever wrote the theme tune to Farscape must have been a fan of the tune. I always wondered what it reminded me of and, listening out of context, I now realise it's the Pearl and Dean music :)

@anthonyjohnston7969 21 день назад

There,s a lot more to the Magpie song than you might think. The Unthanks sing "Magpie" at the BBC Folk Prom 2018

@andrewmcewan8081 13 часов назад

some people salute single magpies ,as part of the same thing. the doves are actually wood pigeons, same thing really. when i hear the pictures used for the cinema tells me the person is probably over their mid 30s and scottish .

@davidboydarnott417 16 дней назад

1:03 so you just thought "I wouldn't hear that anywhere else on Earth" , "that puts me right here in England", and it kicked off the other sounds.👍

@empydoodle 13 дней назад

We have a bunch of weird songs for animals in England. I still hear my Nan singing "Shoo fly, don't bother me" any time I see one.

@jamesslingsby6207 23 дня назад

After watching this Channel for a few years - Alanna's voice now reminds me of England when I am abroad!

@samuelhonywill4499 16 дней назад

The football results on a Saturday afternoon on 5 Live. Not even a massive football fan but could listen to them forever.

@Dan-B 23 дня назад

My favourite thing about train travel is when you can tell that you’ve passed through an accent barrier *(~in RP~):* “The next stop is for…” *(~Strong local accent~):* “bArNsLeY”

@miaschu8175 20 дней назад

I get annoyed that the female voice announcing "Next stop, Luton" pronounces the town where I grew up without the "t". I don't. Having said that, I may well be in the minority!