Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Nightly low, pulsating noise mid-ladder
Hello all, I hope everyone is safe and well.
I’m trying to solve a mystery...
For the past few months we’ve been hearing a persistent, low somewhat pulsating noise from the south side of Seymour Road. It happens at night, often stopping for a while around 3.30am. It gets pretty loud. It seems less local and more pervasive than an immediate-neighbour issue. I’m almost certain than anyone south of mid ladder would hear it from 11pm.
I think I’ve driven our Seymour Rd WhatsApp group nuts trying to figure it out.
I have considered the New River weed machine but that seems rather quiet.
Anyone got an idea of its origin?
Thank you! Stay safe.
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Permalink Reply by Louise on
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Hi Phillipa
I hear this too (Beresford rd). In fact can hear it now. My husband thinks I'm.mad and I'd almost convinced myself it must be tinnitus. No idea of the cause but would love to know!
Louise
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Permalink Reply by Phillipa Leighton-Jones on
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Luckily my entire family hear it otherwise I’d also wonder if I was hearing things. It’s pretty pervasive some night and keeps us awake if the windows are open. Only a few of the Seymour neighbours hear it (but I’m one of the few I think in the garden at night because of dogs).
Here’s hoping we can get to the bottom of it!
PX
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Stillman on
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i've been talking about this with a friend who lives mid-Ladder.
just under a year ago, they started getting a hum that was noticed mainly at night, but often went on all day.
they describe it as a low hum. so their first thought was that it was electrical. they tried turning off their electricity at the mains but that made no difference. so, they then wondered if it was the concrete factory.
the volume of the noise was variable but often it was loud enough to be disruptive.
then a few months back, there was a power cut. my friend realised that all trace of the noise had gone.
once the work in the street was finished, there was no noise, then it came back for a bit and a week ago it stopped again and now it’s barely discernible.
they were going to get in touch with UK Power Networks, but have held back since the noise stopped.
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That’s interesting. I hadn’t thought about the concrete factory since about 2005 (did they build it? I am woefully out of the loop if so). The noise is definitely still happening. Possibly with increasing frequency. I’m no noise-phobe but there’s something about the regularity and tone that makes it feels particularly troublesome.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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And this from someone who seems quite nonchalant about being cornered in their back garden by dogs.
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You missed a possessive pronoun there. I couldn't help myself.
"I'm one of the few in the garden at night because of dogs" made me think you were being chased there regularly by feral hounds.
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Oh God, secret is out!
Only on a full Moon...
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Blimey John. Nothing nerdy about that. I wonder how many people had to google "possessive pronoun". Don't forget, in this country, there was no grammar taught in many state schools in the 70s and 80s! I barely know a noun from a verb....
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Ahr, the Bristol Hum!
I live on Pemberton about half way up. In the summer, when the nights were hot we had a back north facing window open and I was bugged by a humming noise, like a motor. It could have been from the railways, as sound moves in mysterious ways.
However, my suspicions were on the new development at the Hawes and Curtis site, or a kebab house with its extractor still on! Basically, the line I thought the sound was coming from cuts across the bottom of Seymour/Hewitt! So, I wonder...
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That's exactly it -- sometimes giant extractor fan, sometimes giant engine, sometimes machine, sometimes crane...sometimes alien lifeforce. It's certainly from the Green Lanes side of mid-ladder. I sleep with the windows open, and it's on from around 10pm to 3.30pm nightly and intermittently through the day. I'm amazed more folks haven't heard it.
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I have only heard it since that development began, and i wonder if they have an electrical generator going...
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