Exeter Audio Tour: Everyday Histories

Exeter's fame rests on its cathedral, its Roman walls and its role as the capital of the south-west. This tour belongs to the people those monuments required: the wool-workers whose trade made the city the third richest in England, the engineer who cut Britain's first pound-lock canal, the plasterer who decorated the Custom House ceiling, the masons who carved the Cathedral's longest medieval vault, the tunnel-diggers who plumbed the city's water supply through the rock, the Guildhall beadles who kept order for eight centuries, and the wardens who pulled people from the rubble when the Baedeker bombers came. They built the city; it rarely put their names on the plaques.