The Garrison Peaky Blinders Pub Birmingham 1711113 new series 021014(1)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGD2N5hJ2e0&list=PLC6yCcnXPZp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDzfeTTigKo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIti-Y8j2g0
The big budget new BBC2 TV show Peaky Blinders, set in Birmingham after the First World War and focusing on a fearsome criminal gang in the Small Heath and Bordesley area, is currently creating what I understand media people call a ‘buzz’.
The first episode, right from the moody Nick Cave title music and Cillian Murphy’s horse bound entrance as gang leader Tommy Shelby, painted a dazzlingly atmospheric, if pretty grim, picture of East Birmingham in 1919. It was also littered with local references: BSA and the Austin, a walk down ‘the cut’ to Greet, the Italian colony around Park Street, St Andrews Football Ground.
Pedants may point to a certain artistic licence over historical accuracy and some of the accents may grate on speakers of modern day Brummie, but personally I think this misses the point and it’s great to see something so exciting on primetime TV mythologising our home city. But seemingly very little of the series was shot in the city, partly because the makers say that there was not enough old streets left.
The fictional Garrison Tavern is the Peaky Blinders’ local. The real one still stands in a run of impressive buildings including the former Garrison Lane Nursery School and the attached caretaker’s house. Several other pubs of the era are also still around, including the Sportsman and Royal George just up the road, the Wagon & Horses on Adderley Street, and the Rainbow on Bordesley High Street. Unfortunately, the Clements Arms, on Coventry Road / Lower Trinity Street, is currently boarded up and looking in a poor state of repair.
www.birminghamconservationtrust.org/2013/09/22/peakyblind...
The Garrison Peaky Blinders Pub Birmingham 1711113 new series 021014(1)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGD2N5hJ2e0&list=PLC6yCcnXPZp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDzfeTTigKo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIti-Y8j2g0
The big budget new BBC2 TV show Peaky Blinders, set in Birmingham after the First World War and focusing on a fearsome criminal gang in the Small Heath and Bordesley area, is currently creating what I understand media people call a ‘buzz’.
The first episode, right from the moody Nick Cave title music and Cillian Murphy’s horse bound entrance as gang leader Tommy Shelby, painted a dazzlingly atmospheric, if pretty grim, picture of East Birmingham in 1919. It was also littered with local references: BSA and the Austin, a walk down ‘the cut’ to Greet, the Italian colony around Park Street, St Andrews Football Ground.
Pedants may point to a certain artistic licence over historical accuracy and some of the accents may grate on speakers of modern day Brummie, but personally I think this misses the point and it’s great to see something so exciting on primetime TV mythologising our home city. But seemingly very little of the series was shot in the city, partly because the makers say that there was not enough old streets left.
The fictional Garrison Tavern is the Peaky Blinders’ local. The real one still stands in a run of impressive buildings including the former Garrison Lane Nursery School and the attached caretaker’s house. Several other pubs of the era are also still around, including the Sportsman and Royal George just up the road, the Wagon & Horses on Adderley Street, and the Rainbow on Bordesley High Street. Unfortunately, the Clements Arms, on Coventry Road / Lower Trinity Street, is currently boarded up and looking in a poor state of repair.
www.birminghamconservationtrust.org/2013/09/22/peakyblind...