Brmngham
3 curiously human self-guided audio tours
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Walking Tour
120 mins
Walking Tour
45 mins
Walking Tour
120 mins
Introducing our Birmingham tours
Birmingham has more miles of canal than Venice, though nobody's rushing to write a sonnet about the M6. Thanks to Peaky Blinders, you probably picture flat caps and gaslit backstreets - but the real story is stranger: a place the 1086 Domesday Book dismissed as an insignificant agricultural settlement,
with no natural resources and no navigable river, that built itself into England's second city through sheer bloody-minded ingenuity.
Visitors tend to arrive expecting a motorway interchange with a shopping centre attached, do a lap of the Bull Ring, and leave without hearing what hums beneath the Jewellery Quarter or rattles round the venues where a young Ozzy Osbourne helped invent heavy metal.
VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours take you underground into catacombs cut from old sandstone quarries, past the industrial titans who powered a revolution, and into the pub where Black Sabbath played their first gig. Brummies don't do fanfare - they just get on with it.
Plug in your earbuds and let Birmingham make some noise.
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