You Are Hear
Sound and a sense of place
From 2015 to 2018, the Essex Sound and Video Archive received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to run the project You Are Hear: sound and a sense of place.
We digitised almost 1650 sound and video recordings to better preserve them and make them available. We then helped people engage with them by taking them into every corner of Essex, encouraging a development of a sense of place by increasing appreciation for the sounds of the county, past and present.
Listen to past and present sounds of Essex on our Essex Sounds audio map or take a seat on one of the listening benches installed during the project.
You can also check out our blog.
