It is 1757, the King is George II and the world is changing. From his tiny gritstone cottage in the Peak District, Mr David Spencer, builder of dry stone walls, brings an extraordinary look at the very ordinary things which were part of his life. This is not the story of a great soldier, aristocrat or politician; this is the little known story of the common sort whose hands shaped the landscape we love today. How these people dressed ate slept and worked and played, laughed wept and prayed.