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[2014]
A Screen Yorkshire TV drama starring Jack O'Connell
about a young British soldier who is accidentally abandoned by his
unit following a riot on the streets of Belfast in 1971
-
Channel 4 TV series about the merger of 2 schools in a segregated
British & Pakistani community.
The series was filmed at the former St Catherine's Catholic High School in Holmfield.
The first episode was broadcast on 7th June 2017
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A film based on the life of playboy gangster, Stephen Smith,
and based on his best-selling autobiography, Addict, was
filmed in Halifax [Summer of 2005].
Smith, originally from the East End of London, became involved
in a life of crime as a teenager and at one point slept rough on the
streets – including in the Mixenden area
| All Quiet on the Preston Front | Ref 8-62 |
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BBC TV comedy series about a local territorial army unit in northern
England.
Parts were filmed in Todmorden
| A boy, a girl, and a bike | Ref 8-1 |
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[1948]
Filmed in the Upper Calder Valley in the summer of 1948.
Many local people were recruited as extras.
Directed by Ralph Smart and starring
Honor Blackman,
Diana Dors,
Patrick Holt,
John McCallum,
and
Anthony Newley,
supported by
John Blythe,
Cyril Chamberlain,
Maurice Denham,
Leslie Dwyer,
Bernard Hepton,
Thora Hird,
Megs Jenkins,
Barry Letts,
and
local girl Margaret Avery as the juvenile lead, Ginger.
The story is about a local cycle club who invite some new members to
join them, and become involved with illegal bookmakers, a stolen
bike, a deserter on the run from the police, and a love triangle
| Brain of Brighouse | Ref 8-B668 |
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A play written by Lloyd Peters, broadcast
on BBC Radio 4 at 14:15 pm
on Tuesday, 22nd February 2005, and
directed by Katherine Beacon.
Actors taking part included
Philip Jackson.
Plot:
Danny Crossley, a child prodigy and successful game-show
contestant, believes that TV game-show host, Mike Coster, is
his long lost father
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[1996]
A brass band contest in the story was filmed at the Piece Hall.
Starred
Ewan MacGregor,
Pete Postlethwaite,
Tara Fitzgerald,
Stephen Tompkinson
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Filmed at Hebden Bridge
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[1972]
BBC TV play by Alan Bennett about a group of cyclists who
leave Halifax for a ride in the country – set in 1911, just before
World War I.
The play was filmed at various locations in Calderdale.
The opening and final scenes at the War Memorial were filmed
at the Edward Akroyd memorial cross in Akroydon
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The pilot for the ITV series, starring Stephen Tomkinson, was
filmed in Sowerby Bridge [May 2010].
Filming for a second series began in Elland and Cromwellbottom [April
2011]
| Dead Clever : The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley | Ref 8-33 |
-
[2005]
TV film written by Sally Wainwright and set in Sowerby Bridge and
Ripponden
| Dennis & the Gibbet Law of Halifax | Ref 8-D180 |
-
A local drama written by F. C. Nantz about an innocent man who
escaped execution on the gibbet.
The play was staged at the Theatre Royal, Halifax in 1840, the year
after the gibbet was re-discovered.
It is reproduced in several publications including
the Halifax Almanack & Parish Year Book [1965].
The play has been attributed to Thomas Crossley
See
Mr Dinnis
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[1983]
Film starring Albert Finney & Tom Courtenay – some
scenes were filmed in the Piece Hall
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[1998]
TV play filmed at Hebden Bridge.
A car crash in the play was filmed in the car park at the Mount Skip Inn and St George's Square was covered in artificial snow
for some scenes
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[1982]
TV play filmed in Hebden Bridge
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[May 2003]
Scenes for an episode of the Yorkshire Television detective series
were filmed on the canal around the Brighouse basin.
The exterior of the Ritz Ballroom was also used in the same episode.
For another episode [as yet, unidentified], some scenes were shot at
The Shay
This & associated entries use material contributed by Phil Markham
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BBC TV comedy filmed in Heptonstall, Hardcastle Crags and Hebden
Bridge [summer 2009]
-
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BBC ONE TV series [2014] written by Sally Wainwright, and
starring Sarah Lancashire and Steve Pemberton, and
filmed at Sowerby Bridge, Hebden Bridge and other places in the
Calder Valley
-
From the 1990s, parts of Calderdale have been used for scenes in this
Yorkshire Television drama series.
For example, some exterior shots for an episode were filmed at
Firth's Carpets, Bailiff Bridge, others have been filmed at The Ritz, Brighouse
| Helen of Four Gates | Ref 8-54 |
-
[1920]
Film directed by Cecil M. Hepworth and filmed in Hebden Bridge.
Based on a novel by former mill worker Ethel Carnie Holdsworth.
It was a silent film with subtitles in the Yorkshire dialect.
A copy of the film was discovered in Montréal and shown at Hebden Bridge Picture House in 2010
This & associated entries use material contributed by David Greaves
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Outdoor scenes in the 1976 Granada TV production by Sir Laurence
Olivier were filmed in Sowerby Bridge.
Stars included Donald Pleasance, Rosemary Leach
and Jack Hedley
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[2005]
A film written by Alan Bennett and with scenes shot on
location in Calderdale and at
Fountains Abbey
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Much of the 1970s six-part TV drama, starring Barry Jackson,
was filmed in and around Halifax by Yorkshire Television
This & associated entries use material contributed by Phil Markham
| How We Used to Live | Ref 8-38 |
-
Drama series produced by Yorkshire Television [1990].
The 17th and 19th century buildings in the factory yard at Joseph Dobson's Sweet Factory in Elland was used to represent a Victorian
slum in the series
-
[1979-1986]
TV series starring Thora Hird – was filmed in Luddenden,
Halifax & other parts of Calderdale
-
In February 1967, Granada Television began a 10-part serialisation of
Phyllis Bentley's Inheritance trilogy, featuring John Thaw
and James Bolam.
The series was filmed in Huddersfield and at Sowerby Bridge,
Murgatroyd's Mill, Luddenden, and Spring Mill, Rishworth
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A film, based on John Braine's book and starring Jason
Merrells and Denise Welch, was made on location in
Calderdale, including The Rex, Elland, where the film was
premièred in September 2005
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[1981]
BBC TV series about two female police inspectors in the small
fictional town of Hartley, Lancashire.
Filmed at Todmorden
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ITV series.
In the episode shown on 5th July 2009, Stockport, the home
town of the character played by Karl Davies, was represented
by Halifax.
Views of the town centre and of Skircoat, as seen from Beacon Hill,
were used to depict visits to Stockport.
Beacon Hill Road and Southowram Bank was the road into and out
of Stockport, seen when Kingdom's car negotiated the hair-pin
turn at the top of the Bank
| Last of the Summer Wine | Ref 8-6 |
-
From the 1970s, many parts of Calderdale have been used for scenes in
this long-running BBC TV comedy series which is set in nearby
Holmfirth – notably the Cromwell Lakes and Brighouse Canal Basin.
The 2006 Christmas Special was filmed [in June] in Park Street and
Thornton Square, Brighouse
| Last Tango in Halifax | Ref 8-57 |
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BBC ONE TV series [2012] written by Sally Wainwright, and
starring Sir Derek Jacobi, Anne Reid, Sarah
Lancashire and Nicola Walker.
A second series was broadcast in 2013.
Some of the scenes were filmed in Calderdale, including
Others scenes, such as
- Gillian's farm [was Norden, Rochdale]
- The hospital car park [was an academy in Manchester]
- the fictitious Southowram Hall [was Bramhall Hall, Cheshire]
- Caroline's school [was Bolton Grammar School]
were not
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[2013]
SkyLiving TV drama written by Sally Wainwright and
starring Anne Reid and Katherine Kelly.
Some scenes were filmed at
Shibden Hall,
Woolshops,
and
the Acapulco night-club
| The League of Gentlemen | Ref 8-61 |
-
BBC TV comedy series.
Parts were filmed in Todmorden
| The life & times of Henry Pratt | Ref 8-12 |
-
[1992]
ITV television series filmed in the Kilnhurst area of Todmorden
-
In May 2006, scenes for the BBC TV drama series set in the 1970s were
filmed near the Hippodrome Theatre in Todmorden
| Little Malcolm & His Struggle Against the Eunuchs | Ref 8-40 |
-
Play by David Halliwell.
The play is said to have been based on an incident when Halliwell was
expelled from art school.
The play was first performed in 1965, directed by Mike Leigh
and with Halliwell in the title rôle.
It was produced at London's Garrick Theatre with John Hurt in
the lead, and on Broadway.
Hurt also starred in the 1974 film version
| Nicholas Nickleby | Ref 8-24 |
-
[Spring 2002]
Film starring
Jamie Bell as Nicholas Nickleby,
Jim Broadbent as Wackford Squeers,
and
Juliet Stevenson as Mrs Squeers.
Gibson's Mill stood in for the school, Dotheboys Hall
| No love for Johnnie | Ref 8-2 |
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[1960]
Film starring Peter Finch – included the famous devil's cauldron view in the opening sequence
| Oranges are not the only fruit | Ref 8-9 |
-
[1990]
BBC TV drama – based on the novel by Jeanette
Winterson – about the life of a young girl, Jeanette, who
has been adopted by working-class evangelists in the North of
England, in the 1960s.
Parts were filmed in Todmorden
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The 1973 Yorkshire TV comedy series about life in a northern town,
starring Barrie Rutter and Ken Platt.
Some scenes were shot in Woodside, Halifax, where
the Buslingthorpe family lived
This & associated entries use material contributed by Phil Markham
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[2010]
BBC TV medical drama starring Claire Foy.
The pilot series was filmed at Calderdale Royal Hospital and the
filming in the mortuary was continually interrupted by the arrival of
corpses
| Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution | Ref 8-37 |
-
The comedy-drama set in 1968 was filmed in September 2006 at various
locations in and around Halifax, including
the Halifax High School building,
Elmfield Terrace, Savile Park,
People's Park,
Savile Park
and
the North Bridge Leisure Centre.
The film starred
Catherine Tate
and Iain Glen,
and was directed by Bille Eltringham,
and produced by Leslee Unwin
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In September 2008, Sean Bean, Warren Clarke
and Andrew Garfield were in Calderdale and other places in
Yorkshire, to film a Channel Four production Red Riding.
The story is adapted from David Peace's Red Riding
Quartet which is set in Yorkshire in the 1970s and early 80s at
the time of the Ripper murders.
Scenes were filmed at Arden Road Social Club, Halifax
| Rita, Sue and Bob Too! | Ref 8-47 |
-
1986 film filmed in Halifax, Bradford, Haworth and Baildon
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[1959]
The film version of John Braine's novel – starring Laurence
Harvey – had some scenes filmed in Halifax at places such as
The Clarence Hotel, Halifax,
All Souls' Church,
and
Halifax Town Hall
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[2010]
A remake of the 1959 film of John Braine's book was filmed for
BBC4 in Halifax – using Shaw Lodge Mills and Todmorden Hippodrome – and in Leeds and Bradford.
Because of copyright problems, the showing of the 4 part drama had to
be cancelled before transmission in April 2011
| Sainsbury's Advertisement | Ref 8-51 |
-
[October/November 2009]
Hebden Bridge was covered in artificial snow for a scene in
the Sainsbury's Christmas advert starring Jamie Oliver
-
Filmed at Hebden Bridge and other parts of the West Riding
-
Some scenes were filmed at Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge and
East Riddlesden Hall
-
In 1922, Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley, was filmed
on the moors between Haworth and Colne.
Waggons from the Murgatroyd family's Oats Royd Mills, Luddenden,
were used in the film.
When the action commenced, the horses bolted and ran
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Short film made by the Hebden Bridge Cinema Section [1952].
The film won a commendation for Amateur Cine World.
A gamekeeper shows the wonders of nature to a small boy as they walk
around Hardcastle Crags.
Cast:
- Richard Pickles played the child
- Fred Sunderland, the gamekeeper
- Sheila Hartley, the boy's mother
- George Crabtree, the boy's father
Ken Crabtree, the manager of the Hebden Bridge branch of
the Halifax Building Society, was the director of the film
This & associated entries use material contributed by Bob Pickles
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[2002]
BBC1 TV drama written by Sally Wainwright.
Described as a reworking of the Wuthering Heights
theme – well, it did have a boy, a girl, and a moor – was filmed in
and around Hebden Bridge and Todmorden
-
[1989]
Yorkshire TV series – starring Dennis Waterman and Kay
Francis – was filmed at Sowerby Bridge canal basin
| Strongbow advertisement | Ref 8-48 |
-
[April 2009]
An advert for Strongbow cider was filmed on Beacon Hill
-
[July and November 2003]
The BBC UK Film Foundation adaptation of Helen Cross's
novel My Summer of Love, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski,
was filmed in Halifax, Todmorden, and the Ritz Ballroom in Brighouse
-
[2002]
A BBC biographical film about Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
starring Daniel Craig and Gwyneth Paltrow was filmed at
Mytholmroyd.
Shame that Daniel Craig couldn't pronounce Mytholmroyd
correctly!
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[1966]
Filming began in Hebden Bridge for an episode in the Granada TV Series
| This Sporting Life | Ref 8-43 |
-
The 1963 film about rugby league in a northern town, and
starring Richard Harris.
Some scenes were shot at Thrum Hall
This & associated entries use material contributed by Phil Markham
| This town of ours | Ref 8-29 |
-
[1972]
A promotional film about Halifax produced by the Halifax Ciné Club.
The film records the changes which were taking place at a time when
redevelopment was rife, and immigration was having its first impact
on the town
-
In September 2008,
Peter Davison,
Suranne Jones,
Will Mellor,
and
Jemma Redgrave
starred in an ITV production which was filmed at Gibbet Street,
Halifax and Soyland.
The offices of law firm, Finn Gledhill, at Barum Top were used.
The film, written by Sally Wainwright, tells the story of a woman
released after serving 15 years in prison for the murder of 2
policemen
| Walker's Crisps advertisement | Ref 8-26 |
-
[November 2002]
One of a series of adverts starring Gary Lineker was filmed at
Trooper Lane, Southowram, near the houses at High Grove Place
which stands just below Blaithroyd Lane
| We of the West Riding | Ref 8-56 |
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[1945]
A 20-minute black and white film in which a young boy describes his
family's life and the woollen mills of the West Riding.
Craig Barritt tells me that
members of his family played the Sykes family in the film, some of
which was filmed at 24 Woodside Place, Boothtown.
Originally another family had been chosen for the film, however they
declined, and suggested the Coldwell family to the film makers.
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His mother Eva who died in 2008, is seen outside the house and
later sitting around the dining table, her face slightly obscured by
flowers.
She recalls that she rode her bike during the film, however it is
difficult to identify her
-
His grandfather Albert Coldwell is seen checking cloth in the
factory, which is at Dean Clough, and releasing pigeons
-
His grandmother Ethel Coldwell is seen cleaning outside 24
Woodside Place and working in the factory
-
His uncle Kenneth Coldwell is seen working in the
factory and at the Shay watching Halifax Town
-
His aunt Ivy is seen lip-reading in the factory
Writer: Phyllis Bentley
Director: Ken Annakin
Narrator: Norman Shelley
This & associated entries use material contributed by Craig Barritt
| Where the heart is | Ref 8-17 |
-
Parts of Calderdale have been used for scenes in this TV drama series
which is set in nearby Slaithwaite.
In March 2004, an episode starring Martin Kemp was filmed at
The Ritz, Brighouse
| Mr Wroe's Virgins | Ref 8-19 |
-
[1993]
Some of the TV series was shot at Heptonstall
| Wuthering Heights | Ref 8-20 |
-
[1991]
An adaptation of the classic Wuthering Heights,
starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, used
Shibden Hall for some locations – although you'd find it hard to
spot them.
East Riddlesden Hall, Keighley was more easily recognisable
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[1979]
Film starring Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave – some
scenes were filmed at Southowram Bank
