Nine years after its inception, Peaky Blinders (premiere on Netflix June 10) comes to an end. Actually, it's already here, in the UK the sixth and final season was broadcast months ago, but here we have had to wait a little longer. The Shelbys will encourage us this early summer that will surely not leave us with a bitter taste because at least we know for sure that the series will be followed by a movie.
Who will come out? What will it go? We still have to wait an uncertain and indefinite time to find out and, meanwhile, we are not satisfied with review all six seasons that have formed one of the best series of recent television through their locations.
Tommy Shelby, we will miss you.
Steve Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders, has always said that his own life and that of his family in birmingham, the second largest city in England, had something to do with the origin of the series and its development. His father was a blacksmith, son of gypsies. He himself was the youngest of seven children and always found, thanks to the elders, better things to do than go to school. Also the strength and importance of the female characters.
"That's how it was in my life and in that generation, men were not, The families were matriarchal. he says he. “I poured all of that into the series, showed a different England, one that we weren't so used to seeing on screen."
It is a working class England, to which he belonged and still belongs. That violent England interwar period in which those who survived World War I were touched forever. Like the Shelby brothers. That has been the psychological basis of his characters, of those protagonists who, despite the violence and crudeness, have gained a legion of fans all over the world (admirers of berets and haircuts). “I don't know how to explain the success. I guess it has to do with being a family and we all see ourselves recognized in some character, or because they are people full of imperfections, ”he adds.
The streets of Birmingham are those of Dudley's museum.
Although the Shelbys are the kings of Birmingham. Working capital par excellence. The series went beyond the confines of this city that is now known and visited as the city of the peaky blinders (there are various tours that prove it). From the fucking Peaky Blinders. We review some of the main locations.
The Black Country Living Museum in dudley could be the main location. In this open-air museum where they are reconstructed over 40 buildings and shops from the Industrial Revolution era until the 1930s, many scenes have been shot throughout the six seasons. It's a live set.
the mansion of Arley Hall in Cheshire was used as Tommy Shelby's House, when he becomes a rich man (although never as respected as he would like). They used the exterior and also some interior rooms, such as the blue-eyed capo's office/library. And you can also visit.
Tommy with his son Charlie.
In Port Sunlight, on the outskirts of another English town, Liverpool, they found the outside of the house Aunt Polly (who we will not see again, sadly, after the death of the actress Helen McCrory). And in Formby Beach in Merseyside Tommy closed the season and another luxury secondary, Alfie Solomons (Tom Hardy).
In Liverpool and manchester we found many spaces. For example, Victoria Baths, an early 20th century swimming pool in Manchester, used for the horse fair. EITHER Admiral Grove and Powis Street, two streets in Liverpool that still preserve that red brick construction so typical of the area and time. It is, by the way, where he grew up Ringo Starr.
In Booke's Mill in Huddersfield they placed the scenes of the gypsy camp and some of the countryside. And all the train scenes we've seen, they've been through Keighley and Worth Valley Steam Railway, a classic of British filming.
Arthur and Tommy.