Why can I hear an air raid siren? 🤔 (KT, Surrey)

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Since we've moved in I've been hearing this weird siren noise every now and again, so I decided to investigate. The answer is actually quite interesting, so I thought I would share it 🙂
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The noise comes from the Hampton Water Treatment Works siren test. This siren can be heard in Teddington, Molesey, Sunbury, Upper & Lower Haliford, Walton-on-Thames, and even as far away as Surbiton. It sounds every Tuesday at 9am.
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@loganbust 2 года назад

We get that in our town every Tuesday at 10am. Comes from a chemical factory that also produces chlorine and other explosive materials. The theory is that if you can hear the siren then you are in the danger zone and need to get indoors and close all windows, etc.

@makingahome_uk 2 года назад

Interesting! And that they also do a test every Tuesday - must be some kind of standard testing day

@tipdip1586 2 года назад

Stalybridge

@anthonymcdonnell5384 2 года назад

@@makingahome_uk we have this every month in Widnes And Runcorn halton uk, as they test the siren at Inos Runcorn in case of a cholhrine leak or other chemicals

@progenlol Год назад

What's the town called?

@marleyrios1573 Год назад

Remember the time I heard an fire alarm in platanos college I was so scared in year 7

@adycee2915 2 года назад

Our local psychiatric hospital, Rainhill (as was assylum) had 3 similar sirens that would wail out-of-phase. They were part of the fire alarm system for decades. Patients would set it off early hours, eerie & scary when we were kids, but miss it now

@brendanwhittingham1770 Год назад

Me to I live in Hampshire and Broadmoor psychiatric hospital had air raid sirens spread around the area and if a inmate escape it will go of and you need to get in doors they test it evry Monday for a min or so

@dank980 2 года назад

Sounds pretty cool, I’m a siren enthusiast, and it sounds like a dual tone (possibly klaxon) 2hp siren. (By the way, yes, siren enthusiasts exist, and there are a few thousand of them)

@makingahome_uk 2 года назад

Very interesting, thanks! (also no judgement at all from me on being a siren enthusiast, I have plenty of interests most people wouldn't understand! ☺️ )

@chrisalderson4862 2 года назад

Hi, many many thanks for this video. I was stopping in Twickenham about four years ago and at 1am i could here air raid sirens going off in the distance. It was totaly freaking me out. I was in bed and got up, got back into bed and kept getting up. My wife was telling me just go to sleep. By 2.30am i was passed myself and couldnt stand the noise. I got my family out of bed in the Hotel and said we are going home. I drove back to Yorkshire in the middle of the night. Many thanks once again, i now know what it was.

@makingahome_uk 2 года назад

Wow, thanks for sharing. Sounds like that might have been a real emergency then in that case you probably made a wise decision!

@maverickhistorian6488 Год назад

There was a siren upon the roof of Twickenham Police station. I have no idea whether it has been decommissioned or is still in working order? That could have been what you actually heard.

@CycloneJoey518 2 года назад

The siren you heard was a gents 2HP. (Just in case you were wondering) The one used in the photo was a Gents Tri-tone siren. The one you heard was 2 toned

@makingahome_uk 2 года назад

Very interesting, thank you!

@mothratemporalradio517 2 года назад

a siren geek :v awesome

@CycloneJoey518 2 года назад

@@mothratemporalradio517 it's a guilty pleasure

@CycloneJoey518 2 года назад

@@_crack_pr Every british siren to most people is just a carter

@_crack_pr 2 года назад

@@CycloneJoey518 I would just *scream* if I heard a thunderbolt 1000t at night

@philipgrant960 2 года назад

So interesting - that sound must still provide a few uncomfortable memories for more than a few who are still with us - including your 96 year old Grandmother (if she still lived in London and wasn't stone deaf!) 🤔

@makingahome_uk 2 года назад

Yes, that thought crossed my mind as well. I'm sure it would be very unsettling to hear that again, particularly if you weren't expecting it

@adamcrane1436 2 года назад

Good morning @@makingahome_uk

@jezcolborne6329 21 день назад

@@makingahome_ukthe attack signal is quicker than the classic attack signal. Its custom made and thats why the siren starts and stops faster than the usual attack signal

@davejohnson3474 7 месяцев назад

I heard this every now and then working on portsmouth road and wondered where it was and now working in walton and heard it again last week but i know. Thanks

@airspeed_alive 11 месяцев назад

As someone who lived in Hersham, I always wondered, now I know!

@petosweet5112 2 года назад

Every day I go through Hamptom court and I hear the air raid siren

@msmoonbeam91 2 года назад

Sounds similar to our Tomado sirens in Oklahoma cities test the sirens regularly on the same day and time each month. When I was little Oklahoma city would test theirs every Saturday at 12pm we called it the noon whistle.

@bonzillesgames Год назад

We used to have an air raid siren every Sunday when I was a kid growing up in the 80's made sense as my hometown was at one time a big armourer manufacturer. If memory serves me I'm pretty sure they stopped doing the test as it upset too many old people who had lived through the war.

@maverickhistorian6488 Год назад

I used to work on Platts Eyot back in the early 1980s, and lived in Hampton during my childhood.

@diecastcupseries7317 2 года назад

It could be a fire siren used to call the volunteer firefighters to the fire station. Pagers and Cell phones have mainly taken over the siren but their are some volunteer fire departments that still use the siren to alert them when their is an emergency call.

@macchirpy 2 года назад

Nope, this is the uk

@alarmmuseum 2 года назад

In the UK, all sirens were replaced by pagers in the 1990s unfortunately. There are still sirens used for this in Ireland though.

@dickiemcvitie1752 2 года назад

You may be outside any "blast zone", but the chemicals in the air travelling on the wind would be a major problem...

@makingahome_uk 2 года назад

Potentially under the right conditions, yes. I have had a look at the dissipation figures and in most cases we are far enough away to not be in danger. I'd still be taking action if I heard the siren though!

@Ellwynnnnn Месяц назад

I genuinely thought I was crazy, but I also hear this still! I go to work late on Tuesdays so I’m usually drinking coffee like 🤔

@omsh6000 5 месяцев назад

I hear them in Teddington occasionally thanks to explaining it

@Doodlebugthegoldenhamster Год назад

At the beginning of the video, I was wondering if it was a fire department siren. I live a block or two away from my fire department, and the siren is mounted so high that I can see it from my house.

@TimeandRelativeGaming2015 5 месяцев назад

I hear this because of the quarry near rivington!

@Funkybulb 2 месяца назад

I am from Blanco Texas. I get to hewr it every day as a noon blast It run up solid for 15 sec.

@joeritchie7286 2 года назад

Dont panic dont panic Mr Mainwaring !

@jezcolborne6329 5 дней назад

Its not the old attack signal and its to fast. It has a custom wailer and sounds the same at ineos in county durham

@ghostlylover99123 2 года назад

your near portsmouth

@sammyjo6651 2 года назад

Sounded like it was going off a minute ago? At 1am?

@beandevv Год назад

I was literally shaking when I heard the air raid sirens thank god, it wasn't anyone coming to invade us. Thanks for informing me.

@jezcolborne6329 5 дней назад

This is a modern attack signal by a WW2 GENTS. they customize the timing of the signal so that its not the code red signal. AT EASE SOLDIER

@marcuscruikshank6943 2 года назад

We get this in my town every Tuesday at 10am

@hmsirensandfirealarms Год назад

What town is it?

@triclamite 2 года назад

an active gents, wow!

@OzzyEquestrian 2 года назад

I actually really hate the air raid and our music teacher has been playing it since our project is world war 2, im actually scared whenever i hear. It..

@ijjywijjy170 Год назад

I have a similar thing I live near a quarry so I here an air raid siren every day when there blasting the rock with explosive devices

@alexandermakrianis 2 года назад

I imagine that siren is also used in case of flooding. It that barrier failed that whole town would be under water.

@makingahome_uk 2 года назад

I'm sure you're not wrong, although by the time we heard it we would already be swimming 😂

@alexandermakrianis 2 года назад

@@makingahome_uk very true!

@alarmmuseum 2 года назад

@@alexandermakrianis there used to be a siren system for floods before the Thames Barrier was built, but it is now decommissioned and a few sirens can be found still in place but no longer working.

@hmsirensandfirealarms Год назад

@@alarmmuseum Oh really! Where abouts?

@alarmmuseum Год назад

@@hmsirensandfirealarms one of them is on the railway bridge abutment outside Waterloo station, another in Kensington Gardens and another at the end of Cressingham road near lewisham high street

@funkychunkgaming9738 2 года назад

Do u live near a Nuclear site or a Mental Hospital as they sue those to wane people about ie an escaped patio or for a nuclear accident??

@makingahome_uk 2 года назад

It's all explained in the video ☺

@rhysmodica2892 2 года назад

Only thing that baffles me. That siren is a Gents Tangent 4HP which has 3 tones, one of which is at over 700Hz. Yet in the video, the siren heard only has the dual tone.

@makingahome_uk 2 года назад

The image I used is just an example image and not the actual siren used by Thames Water :-)

@user-iz5wj7gr6q 2 года назад

@@makingahome_uk the siren there is a seamoak carter

@alarmmuseum 2 года назад

@@user-iz5wj7gr6q Secomak and Carter are different companies. Secomak siren production was taken over by Klaxon at some point around the 90s. The siren at the treatment plant is a Gents of Leicester 2HP I believe.

@jezcolborne6329 2 года назад

@@user-iz5wj7gr6q no it ain't. its a gents siren or even a secomak siren

@hmsirensandfirealarms Год назад

@@makingahome_uk The siren you used in the photo is a Gent Tri-Tone. Those ones are amazing but the siren heard it is a Gents of Leicester 2/4HP

@Tvckzz 2 года назад

nah air raid sirens are soo scary

@HMSLIVE18 2 года назад

We always get this on a Monday at 1pm I think most places do its from a chemical plant

@cidertom5140 Год назад

You said this siren you are wrong. It’s a single ended twin tone siren. It’s a carter siren. Gents secomack klaxon signal(as in the broardmoor sirens ) are all based on this siren.

@pendlelancashire Год назад

*South England, South West of London?*

@joshuabailey3556 2 года назад

If you hear it you need to take cover

@Kiddoesrandomstuff Год назад

Do you live in kettering

@mermaidfan2420 2 года назад

Probably a test run

@makingahome_uk 2 года назад

It is, it's explained in the video 😉

@Kiddoesrandomstuff Год назад

Test?

@ClaudeKnot_25 Год назад

It's air raid alert testing, Areas like Surrey, Manchester, London, Lancashire and Yorkshire get these alert and all clear alarms all the time. Don't worry about it.

@Jonesykins 5 месяцев назад

It's nothing to do with Air-Raids. He lives about a mile from Hampton Water Treatment Works where they store very dangerous chemicals, including Chlorine gas. You know?~ The same stuff the Nazis used to use on the battlefields... If there was to be an incident; be it terrorism, an accident, or what not, the chlorine in that place could kill everyone within a half mile radius.

@omsh6000 5 месяцев назад

@@Jonesykinsyeah I live near the same area and hear them

@Colemc9909 Год назад

this happened a few hours ago

@Colemc9909 Год назад

for me

@Capsorio.Armiya 2 года назад

That's a Carter siren

@alarmmuseum 2 года назад

It’s a Gents of Leicester 2HP I think. We do have many other different 10/12 port sirens that aren’t made by Carters of Nelson/Burnley!

@Thunderbolt_1000AT 2 года назад

Maybe it's a test

@makingahome_uk 2 года назад

It is a test. All discussed in the video 😉

@progenlol Год назад

It's either a test or your impending doom.

@vintagesimplexfirealarmsof6440 11 месяцев назад

its called testing

@saqibrouf2315 Год назад

IAM a person who has been posting Hampton water treatment works for 1 year on youtube

@saqibrouf2315 Год назад

I mean the siren

@haydnvonmed6624 2 года назад

Every monday in devonport we test it because we have nuclear reactors there

@makingahome_uk 2 года назад

Ooh, I'd be a lot more worried about hearing that 😅

@haydnvonmed6624 2 года назад

Wouldnt you just

@Supermillwardbrothers Год назад

#airraidsiren

@iliunicolae2009 Год назад

I wish I could hear air raid sirens at romania

@hmsirensandfirealarms Год назад

There is a few I think

@ythanrotairo5509 2 года назад

🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫

@Elyn-co2gr 8 месяцев назад

Its just ww2 siren but its a carter siren

@jezcolborne6329 5 дней назад

Its a GENTS

@Elyn-co2gr 4 дня назад

@@jezcolborne6329 ik

@jezcolborne6329 День назад

@@Elyn-co2gr you said it was a carter but itsa genta so u will know this time

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@madjackedjake4186 5 месяцев назад

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@jessejamessalvador1642 2 года назад

Broadcast this is the international space station would get into pupu wiwi you are

@GIGANOOT 2 года назад

just move out

@user-lc5qp8kx3u Год назад

Is this russia???

@tonybarde2572 Год назад

Hitler is back from the dead

@jezcolborne6329 21 день назад

Wrong signal. This is a modern faster attack signal and not the original.

@tonybarde2572 21 день назад

@@jezcolborne6329 No

@jezcolborne6329 5 дней назад

@@tonybarde2572yes. This is not the old air raid signal. FIRST the old signal had a longer ramp up and stayed there for 4 seconds like plymouth or portsmouth and the ramp down is slower. This siren is customized and sounds a shorter faster attack signal. The ramp up is mutch faster and so is the ramp down. Use your brain and stop trying to be clever

@tonybarde2572 5 дней назад

@@jezcolborne6329 No

@jezcolborne6329 4 дня назад

@@tonybarde2572 yes