That’s the message from Bradford UNESCO City of Film boss, David Wilson. The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and the town’s Dalton Mills are among locations used to shoot scenes for previous series of the popular BBC drama. Peaky Blinders has been partly filmed in the Bradford district since it began more than seven years ago. Production has resumed on the sixth series, following delays due to coronavirus. Bosses have confirmed it will be the last, although the story is set to continue “in another form”. Mr Wilson said: “The Bradford Film Office has been buzzing with enquiries from a good number of productions hoping to film this year.
A KEEN walker and trained mountain leader is planning a series of winter walks in aid of a local charity. Susan Uttley is inviting anyone who would like to join a small group of people on a socially-distanced, six-mile circular walk around Oxenhope and Haworth. She is also happy to lead a group of friends or a family on the walk, which will take in the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and scenery made famous in the film The Railway Children. Susan, who lives in Clayton, is hosting the walk on six dates over the Christmas and New Year period, in aid of Down Syndrome Bradford, a charity close to her heart.
SCHOOL children have been given a virtual tour of the Rail Story museums at Ingrow West Station. The initiative was the first of its kind since Covid guidelines forced the temporary closure of the Engine Shed and Vintage Carriage Works. Laycock Primary School was the first to receive the newly-developed guided tour – presented by Rail Story’s Matt Arnold, with Alexandra Stockdale-Haley behind the camera. The tour began at the Carriage Works, operated by the Vintage Carriages Trust. It included a look inside the early-20th-century Metropolitan carriages and the Great Northern guard’s van and 1898 first-class carriage – complete with en-suite toilet.