Lancaster Audio Tour: Wages, Warrants and Warehouses - Lancaster Castle

Lancaster's Georgian prosperity is written in stone - the Custom House, the Priory, the grand merchant houses on Castle Hill. But the story of who actually built, guarded, clerked, stocked and served this town belongs to a different set of names: the gaoler who managed the Pendle witch hangings, the housekeeper who outlived her judges, the cabinet apprentices who hand-cut mahogany legs in a Castle Hill workshop, the dock workers who loaded cargoes whose profits built the churches, the Quaker merchants who funded both chapels and slave ships, and the women who kept the linoleum looms running when the men went to war. Heritage Open Days 2026 theme is Everyday Histories - this tour names the unnamed.