Leeds Town Hall has a basement with a past. Beneath its grand front steps lie the Bridewells, Victorian police cells so deliberately bleak that inmates slept on straw or were shackled to the walls. They stayed in use until 1993. The slang name for the vans that ferried the city’s drunks here gave a Leeds indie band its name: the Bridewell Taxis.

Above ground, things are more dignified. Cuthbert Brodrick’s colossal building was opened by Queen Victoria in 1858 and houses one of Europe’s largest organs. When the Luftwaffe bombed it in 1941, one door inside was blown clean off its hinges without a single pane of its glass breaking.

VoiceMap’s self-guided audio tours begin on its steps and pause beside its four weathered stone lions. They explain the legend that whenever the clock strikes thirteen, the lions wake up and go for a stroll around Leeds.