Self-guided audio walk through 15 landmarks in Sheffield city centre, narrated by the AudaTours app.
Sheffield Audio Tour: Iconic Heart starts at Barker's Pool on Thursday 29 October, and it's a self-guided audio walk rather than a guided group tour. You do it through the AudaTours app, which you download for free and that works offline once it's on your phone, so there's no guide to follow and no building entry included. The tour is narrated by AudaTours, a service that turns a city walk into a story drawn from verified historical sources.
The route takes you into the untold heart of Sheffield city centre, beyond the postcard views of City Hall and the High Street, to uncover legends and scandals lost beneath the stone. It's the kind of stuff you don't usually notice on your daily commute: the bell that once sent pigs scrambling down Barker's Pool, and the act of rebellion that reduced Victoria Hall's earliest chapel to ashes in a single night. The walk runs for around 2.3 kilometres (1.4 miles) and takes in 15 landmarks, including the High Street, Sheffield Cathedral, the Crucible Theatre, the Winter Garden, the Millennium Gallery, the Showroom Cinema and the National Centre for Popular Music.
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Because it's self-guided, you can take it at your own pace. There's no fixed start time, so you can set off whenever suits you on the day. It costs from £4.99, and since it's an audio tour on your phone, you'll want to bring your own headphones.
