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

[@loganbust]

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]

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

[@tipdip1586]

Stalybridge

[@anthonymcdonnell5384]

@@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

[@Youraveragetrainspotter]

What's the town called?

[@marleyrios1573]

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

[@chrisalderson4862]

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]

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

[@maverickhistorian6488]

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.

[@olivere5497]

Did you pay the hotel reception before leaving?

[@adycee2915]

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]

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]

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]

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! ☺️ )

[@CycloneJoey518]

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]

Very interesting, thank you!

[@mothratemporalradio517]

a siren geek :v awesome

[@CycloneJoey518]

@@mothratemporalradio517 it's a guilty pleasure

[@CycloneJoey518]

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

[@combardiusbombardius]

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

[@petosweet5112]

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

[@philipgrant960]

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]

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]

Good morning @@makingahome_uk

[@jezcolborne6329]

​@@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]

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

[@msmoonbeam91]

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.

[@airspeed_alive]

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

[@bonzillesgames]

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.

[@diecastcupseries7317]

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]

Nope, this is the uk

[@alarmmuseum]

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

[@maverickhistorian6488]

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

[@kingelectro887]

I live in lower morden, which is close to hampton and walton on thames and if the windspeeds are fast enough, I can hear it faintly. I'm considering buying an air raid siren to warn civilians of an emergencies because the one near me got removed in 2001 (which is stupid considering the current risk of war).

[@robbiemorrison7085]

If you are near Camberley area, they still use them cause of Broadmoor Hospital. They sound it if an inmate escapes.

[@omsh6000]

I hear them in Teddington occasionally thanks to explaining it

[@robbiemorrison7085]

If you’re up near Camberly way, they still use the sirens cause of broadmoor hospital. They sound the sirens if someone has escaped.

[@TheTugtastic]

They test the sirens every week so the local residents can sleep soundly at night. In the event of an escape they will no doubt be very discrete in trying to locate and recover the runaway. The last thing they want is lots of panicking people or a lynch mob.

[@DanHaviation]

In Runcorn every 12:00 o'clock on monday an air raid siren goes off. And it on site at a factory That used to be an i.c.i

[@joeritchie7286]

Dont panic dont panic Mr Mainwaring !

[@jezcolborne6329]

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

[@beandevv]

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]

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

[@Supermillwardbrothers]

Can I ask, do we know where abouts the sirens located on site? I'm just wondering now.

[@TimeandRelativeGaming2015]

I hear this because of the quarry near rivington!

[@Doodlebugthegoldenhamster]

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.

[@ghostlylover99123]

your near portsmouth

[@Ellwynnnnn]

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 🤔

[@sammyjo6651]

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

[@Funkybulb]

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

[@marcuscruikshank6943]

We get this in my town every Tuesday at 10am

[@hmsirensandfirealarms]

What town is it?

[@alexandermakrianis]

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

[@makingahome_uk]

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

[@alexandermakrianis]

@@makingahome_uk very true!

[@alarmmuseum]

@@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]

@@alarmmuseum Oh really! Where abouts?

[@alarmmuseum]

@@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

[@OzzyEquestrian]

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..

[@funkychunkgaming9738]

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]

It's all explained in the video ☺

[@rhysmodica2892]

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]

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

[@user-iz5wj7gr6q]

@@makingahome_uk the siren there is a seamoak carter

[@alarmmuseum]

@@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]

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

[@hmsirensandfirealarms]

@@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

[@mermaidfan2420]

Probably a test run

[@makingahome_uk]

It is, it's explained in the video 😉

[@Johnkaiden-d9r]

from the title: you can hear it because you have something called ears

[@pendlelancashire]

*South England, South West of London?*

[@Tjlovesbikes]

Test?

[@triclamite]

an active gents, wow!

[@Tjlovesbikes]

Do you live in kettering

[@ijjywijjy170]

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

[@HMSLIVE18]

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

[@vitinha.Vrfs1]

nah air raid sirens are soo scary

[@cidertom5140]

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.

[@joshuabailey3556]

If you hear it you need to take cover

[@Elyn-co2gr]

Its just ww2 siren but its a carter siren

[@jezcolborne6329]

Its a GENTS

[@Elyn-co2gr]

@@jezcolborne6329 ik

[@jezcolborne6329]

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

[@Elyn-co2gr]

@@jezcolborne6329 the backround

[@jezcolborne6329]

@@Elyn-co2gr its a gents 3 tone siren in the picture not a carter

[@Thunderbolt_1000AT]

Maybe it's a test

[@makingahome_uk]

It is a test. All discussed in the video 😉

[@Claude_Knot15]

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]

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]

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

[@Capsorio.Armiya]

That's a Carter siren

[@alarmmuseum]

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!

[@Colemc9909]

this happened a few hours ago

[@Colemc9909]

for me

[@Youraveragetrainspotter]

It's either a test or your impending doom.

[@haydnvonmed6624]

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

[@makingahome_uk]

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

[@haydnvonmed6624]

Wouldnt you just

[@vintagesimplexfirealarmsof6440]

its called testing

[@saqibrouf2315]

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

[@saqibrouf2315]

I mean the siren

[@madjackedjake4186]

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[@iliunicolae2009]

I wish I could hear air raid sirens at romania

[@hmsirensandfirealarms]

There is a few I think

[@jessejamessalvador1642]

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

[@ythanrotairo5509]

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[@chriswaring5565]

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[@GIGANOOT]

just move out

[@李慧-x7e]

Is this russia???

[@tonybarde2572]

Hitler is back from the dead

[@jezcolborne6329]

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

[@tonybarde2572]

@@jezcolborne6329 No

[@jezcolborne6329]

​@@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]

@@jezcolborne6329 No

[@jezcolborne6329]

@@tonybarde2572 yes