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New Audio Guides for Richmond (16 Sept 2009)
Richmond has a new attraction this summer which is helping visitors to the town learn more about its historic past.
New ‘audio guides’ are available exclusively from Richmond Tourist Information Centre and can be hired for the day for just £3. Using the guides, residents and visitors to the historic market town, can take a walk along a new high-tech audio trail.
The audio trail, which starts at the Friary Gardens and takes visitors through the Market Place, round Castle Walk, along to the river and Station and back past St Mary’s Church, has stops along the way to listen to recorded tracks which tell of the town's history, legends and folk law from times gone by.
RSVCI Town Manager, Colin Grant, said: “Audio guides are becoming increasingly common at historic sites. We’ve produced a really fascinating trail that is a lot of fun to listen to. We hope that residents and visitors alike will come along to the TIC and take the tour, which is guaranteed to teach you something new about Richmond”.
This new initiative is the brainchild of the Richmond Swale Valley Community Initiative, a partnership organisation helping to regenerate the town and was paid for by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Yorkshire Forward. Recorded at Fresh FM’s studios, the script was written and researched by local Creative Consultant, Gillian Howells and is performed by actors from North Country Theatre, with the equipment and technical support being provided by ATS Heritage.
Photo – Richmond Sixth former Bethany Marsh samples an audio guide in Friary Gardens.
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