Warwick Audio Tour: The Town Behind the Walls

Warwick belongs to the earls on its postcards. The streets beneath the castle walls belong to a different story — the armourers and mill-tenants who kept the castle running, the six named craftsmen whose contracts survive from the making of Richard Beauchamp's tomb, the five named workers who rebuilt St Mary's nave after the 1694 fire destroyed a quarter of the town, the veterans and their wives who have kept the same morning prayers since 1571, the wool-trading mercer Thomas Oken who made his fortune and gave it all away, the mason Francis Smith who was born in the ashes of one town and spent his life building the next. This is Heritage Open Days' 'Everyday Histories' — the working names Warwick nearly forgot.