Has anyone noticed the intermittent beeping on the Upland Rd / North Cross Rd area

[Tlee2201]

I’ve been hearing a beeping sound that goes off every 45 - 60 secs 24 hours a day for a few weeks and can’t work out where it’s coming from. You can hear it all the way down the road and I can hear it when I’m at home and it’s starting to drive me a bit crazy, so would love to figure out what it is. 
 

Anyone else noticed it? 

[Monkey]

I’m pretty sure there was a thread about this a long time ago - I’m talking five years or more… I’ll try and find it.

[Spartacus]

Does it sound like any of these alarm sounds (ignore the cheesy US voice over) 

 

 

[Sue]

21 hours ago, Tlee2201 said:

I’ve been hearing a beeping sound that goes off every 45 - 60 secs 24 hours a day for a few weeks and can’t work out where it’s coming from. You can hear it all the way down the road and I can hear it when I’m at home and it’s starting to drive me a bit crazy, so would love to figure out what it is. 
 

Anyone else noticed it? 

This may not be what you mean, but there's what I presume is a burglar alarm near the dentist on North Cross Road which keeps going off, but I don't think  all the time.

I don't know who "owns" the alarm, but if I lived or worked near there it would drive me mad.

I'm in Ulverscroft Road, so not far away, but I haven't knowingly heard it inside my house (but I have double glazing).

I've only noticed it on many occasions when walking down North Cross Road.

Edited August 4, 2025 by Sue

[ianr]

21 hours ago, Tlee2201 said:

You can hear it all the way down the road and I can hear it

Which way down which specific road?

 

[Tlee2201]

You can hear it by Eric’s on Upland Road the all the way down to dentist on North Cross Road. 
 

It sounds like the battery on an alarm system is running out (based on the link above) and presumably on a commercial property or a vacant home as otherwise it would have been turned off. 
 

It’s just very annoying and has been going for a few weeks constantly. 

[Spartacus]

Are there any caravans, or similar around there, it might be inside a vehicle, if it is in a house or commercial property, unless its empty, the owner would notice, but vehicles are often out of earshot 

[radnrach]

YES!!! It drives me insane. No-one seems to know!!!

[Sue]

3 hours ago, Tlee2201 said:

You can hear it by Eric’s on Upland Road the all the way down to dentist on North Cross Road. 
 

Are you saying that if you are walking down North Cross Road from the direction of Upland Road that you can't hear it once you have passed the dentist?

Because if so, it can't be the alarm next to the dentist which I referred to above (unless it coincidentally stops making a sound  every time you pass it!)

Edited August 4, 2025 by Sue
Clarification

[Spartacus]

Have you found the cause ? 

[Sue]

The alarm outside the dentist hasn't been bleeping when I've passed it a couple of times recently.

OP and others, have you heard the mysterious noise in the last few days?

[Tlee2201]

I haven’t been able to work it out. You can hear it next to Eric’s bit also down by the art gallery and Evi’s so it’s really confusing as to where it’s coming from but it’s definitely every 60 secs or so constantly. It’s so annoying! 
 

 

 

[Sue]

15 hours ago, Tlee2201 said:

I haven’t been able to work it out. You can hear it next to Eric’s bit also down by the art gallery and Evi’s so it’s really confusing as to where it’s coming from but it’s definitely every 60 secs or so constantly. It’s so annoying! 
 

 

 

So is it still going on? I live very near there and walk there often, but the only bleeping  noise  I've ever heard is from the alarm near the dentist.

And I have very good hearing.

Though I'm beginning to doubt that now, if there's a constant bleeping in the area every 60 seconds!!!

 

[Sue]

At 2.15pm today the alarm to the right (as you face it) of the dentist in North Cross Road was bleeping again.

I could hear it up to Ulverscroft Road, but I turned off there, so I don't know if you can hear it beyond that.

If nobody has identified anything else, I'm pretty sure that must be the noise that people are referring to on here.

It would be a great coincidence (though not impossible) if there was another bleeping noise in more or less exactly the same area.

 

[ianr]

But how then to explain how you could easily locate this one, when no-one  else had previously been able to?

Edited August 22, 2025 by ianr
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[Sue]

3 hours ago, ianr said:

But how then to explain how you could easily locate this one, when no-one  else had previously been able to?

Well, nobody else has yet said that it ISN'T the alarm outside the dentist!

Nobody else has said "oh yes, I heard that beeping when I passed the dentist, but that wasn't the beeping I hear".

And nobody else has said "Well I passed the dentist when the beeping I hear was going on, and it deffo wasn't coming from the alarm outside the dentist."

I rest my case!

[Katherty]

I have also noticed bleeping. I can only hear it when the window is open at the front. I'm on Whateley Road, quite near the Lordship Lane end. Initially I thought it was a neighbour's smoke alarm running out of battery.

[Spartacus]

I may have found the cause.

Popped up to Erics this morning, and just opposite the Jewellers I heard the beeping. Stopping there for a few minutes I pinpointed it to either the beige campervan , the trailer or the building they are both parked outside. Acoustics make it hard to pin down exactly. 

[ianr]

That seems more like the initial reports, where the beeping appears to be clearly heard but difficult to locate. 

 I don't know what experiments would then be useful.  I'd suggest something like: go to the area at night when there's little other noise.  Have with you any of (a) a stout tube -- apply to one ear, block the other; (b)  some electronic recording or audio-sampling device(s).  In both cases they could be used in different locations and/or orientations (principally rotation about a vertical axis), with a view to finding variations in perceived or received intensity.   Maybe take someone with you to video the proceedings. 🙂

Edited August 23, 2025 by ianr

[Spartacus]

Or use two coat hangers, both bent at 90° as divining rods to locate the sound and fresh water too 😄 

[CPR Dave]

If it is a camper van that could explain it  moving around and being hard to locate.

[Tlee2201]

You can hear it quite clearly near Eric’s and the jewellery shop but also I can hear it clearly when I’m walking past Evi’s and there is a building opposite that looks to be under construction. Maybe it’s from there. 
 

It’s weird you can hear it from both parts of the street but it’s been consistent for weeks now. 
 

It’s not coming from the camper van opposite the vintage store, unfortunately. 
 

It’s definitely not the beeping coming from by the dentist. That’s different. 
 

This is just an intermittent beep that sounds like the reminder when an alarm is running out of battery. It’s driving me nuts! 

[Sue]

2 hours ago, Tlee2201 said:

You can hear it quite clearly near Eric’s and the jewellery shop but also I can hear it clearly when I’m walking past Evi’s and there is a building opposite that looks to be under construction. Maybe it’s from there. 
 

Do you mean the building next to the mosque?

I don't know what on earth they can be doing there that's taking so long, it seems to be taking decades!

I've never heard anything from there apart from general construction noise.

It used to be a halal (?) grocer. It was very useful for very cheap and good garlic and ginger.