Antonia Hicks

Peaky Blinders Location Guide

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Produktbeschreibung

Peaky Blinders Location Guide is a perfect companion to the worldwide BBC hit series set in the gritty industrial heart of early twentieth-century Britain. Tommy Shelby might be a West Midlands gangster, but most of the series is shot in the north of England!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Batsford Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 44
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 172mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 162g
• ISBN-13: 9781841659435
• ISBN-10: 1841659436
• Artikelnr.: 63397034

Autorenporträt

Antonia Hicks MA graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Ancient and Modern History. Her dissertation was titled 'Perceptions of adultery and marriage within the epistolary culture of the late 18th century' for which she undertook original research into the letters of the Duchess of Devonshire. She's a passionate fan of Broadway musicals, Peaky Blinders and Bridgerton.

Inhaltsangabe

• Powis Street Liverpool is Watery Lane, Small Heath
• Arley Hall, North Cheshire is Tommy's mansion
• Black Country Living Museum, Dudley is Uncle Charlie's scrap yard
• Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire is where Tommy, Arthur and John pick a fight with the Lee family on the banks of the river Wharfe.
• Le Mans Crescent, Bolton, Lancs, is the London crescent where the Sabini club is supposed to be located
• Stanley Dock, Tobacco Warehouse, Liverpool is the road leading up to the Garrison Pub
• Victoria Baths, Manchester is where the horse sale takes place when May Carleton first sets eyes on Tommy (it also appears in the episode of the boxing match)
• Gladstone Pavilion in Stanley Park, Liverpool is the setting for the Epsom Derby
• Keighley Station in Yorkshire is where Arthur confronts his swindling father and where Campbell confronts Grace on the platform
• Port Sunlight is the location of Aunt Polly's 'Sutton Coldfield' residence - also where Tommy aims to kill the paedophile priest - in 'The Dell'
• The Plaza Stockport stands in for Bingley Hall, Birmingham where Oswald Mosley is speaking on stage
• Chatsworth House is used as Maye Carleton's posh country gaffe
• Undercliffe Cemetery in Bradford is a useful hiding place for "the gons"
• Ellesmere Canal Trust Museum, Ellesmere Port is where, with a bit of CGI, the narrow boats from Birmingham dock as though it were Camden Town.
• Tommy and Alfie Solomons have their showdown on Formby Sands.
• Portsoy in Aberdeenshire stands in for an island off the coast of Nova Scotia in Series 6