Lee Henman
Tuesday 5th October 2010 6:16pm [Edited]
5,183 posts
Just walking home with the dog and my son and was rather-perturbed to hear a WW2 air raid siren start wailing in the distance. It lasted about 3 minutes. I've heard it before - I think it's the chemical works or something but my son looked a bit frightened which put the willies up me too. He's been studying the war at school and so knew what the noise was immediately.
What a horrible, ghostly sound it is.
UPDATE:
After a quick Google it turns out there were quite a few siren types. The one I heard was this - a Carter Siren. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i1QAtET0ok&feature=related