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A wet blue-brick street with a red pillar box running down to brick houses
Backdrop: the canal bridge at the Black Country Living Museum, where Small Heath was filmed, 2024. Mike Parker · CC BY-SA 2.0

BBC · 2013–2022 · and the 2026 film

PeakyBlinders

Set in Small Heath, Birmingham. Filmed, nearly all of it, somewhere else.

Cold. The smoke has settled over the chimneys.

  1. Cillian Murphy with a short-back-and-sides haircut, open white collar and dark jacket, at an evening premiere
    Cillian Murphy at the series 2 premiere, Birmingham, 2014. Tim Cornbill · CC BY-SA 2.0
  2. Helen McCrory smiling, in glasses and a dark floral top
    Helen McCrory, who played Aunt Polly, 2017. INCA Productions · CC BY-SA 3.0
  3. Steven Knight, grey-haired and bearded, in a white shirt, blue tie and dark jacket, smiling in front of patterned wallpaper
    Steven Knight, who created it, Birmingham, 2020. Taylor Rooke · CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. A young man in a flat cap and jacket in a black-and-white police photograph
    Harry Fowles, Birmingham police photograph, 1904. Police photographer · Public domain

Birmingham or elsewhere

Back a scene.
The house usually wins.

Thirteen scenes from the series and the film, chalked up like runners. The price on each is its distance from Small Heath: one point for every 10 km. Back it as Birmingham and you get the price if you are right. Back it as elsewhere and you get evens.

  1. Watery Lane13/1
  2. Charlie’s Yard2/1
  3. The station15/1
  4. Outside the Garrison13/1
  5. Polly’s new house12/1
  6. The bomb13/1
  7. The horse fair11/1
  8. Grace’s last night13/1
  9. Tommy’s house10/1
  10. Margate15/1
  11. December 192515/1
  12. The city canal1/1
  13. The writing room5/1

13s in your book · 0 of 13 settled

Back each scene to be Birmingham or elsewhere. You start with 13 shillings, one a race.

A long, empty terraced street with blackened brick house fronts
Powis Street, Toxteth, October 2016. Rodhullandemu · CC BY-SA 3.0

Watery Lane · really

Powis Street, Toxteth

The Welsh Streets, Toxteth, Liverpool · 125 km from Small Heath

Tommy Shelby rides a horse down Watery Lane in the first minutes of the first episode.

In the first minutes of series one, Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) rides a horse down a muddy street named Watery Lane. It was filmed on Powis Street.

A residential street in Toxteth, L8. People live here: look from the pavement.

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Dudley · the Black Country

Wipe the soot.
Find Charlie’s Yard.

The Black Country takes its name from the soot of its many iron foundries. Rub the window clean, or use the button.

A narrow canal with a moored boat, a brick bridge and a towpath beside brick workshops
The canal and towpath at the Black Country Living Museum, August 2025. HJ Mitchell · CC BY 4.0

The window is black with soot.

The open-air museum in Dudley appears across all six series of the show.

Charlie’s Yard saw the shooting of Danny Whizzbang in episode one, and a tense tea party with the Changretti family in series three. St James’s School was used for the murder of Father Hughes; the canal towpath for the Billy Boys gang in series five.

“We think of the museum as home, this is our world and we love coming here.”Steven Knight, the show’s creator

For The Immortal Man, the museum doubled as Charlie Strong’s yard again.

Tipton Road, Dudley DY1 4SQ. Peaky Blinders filming location tours on selected Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11.30am and 1.30pm: 75–90 minutes, ages 16+, pre-booked, with a full day’s museum admission.

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Black Country Living Museum

Peaky Blinders filming location tours

Dudley · Selected Wednesdays and Saturdays · 11.30am or 1.30pm · museum admission included

A costumed guide walks you to Charlie Strong’s Yard, St James’s School, the canal towpath, Freddy and Ada’s meeting place by the Canal Street bridge, the Blacksmith’s Workshop and the Anchor Forge. Ages 16+.

Book a tour

The razor in the cap

Feel the peak.
Mind your fingers.

They say the gang sewed razor blades into the peaks of their caps.

Who says so

The real ones are on a wall in Birmingham. Its top floor is where prisoners’ mugshots were taken, including the famous Peaky Blinders.

  1. A young man in a flat cap and jacket in a black-and-white police photograph
    Harry Fowles, 1904. Police photographer · Public domain

    Harry Fowles

  2. A moustached man in a flat cap in a sepia police photograph
    Thomas Gilbert, 1905. West Midlands Police · Public domain

    Thomas Gilbert

  3. A young man in a checked flat cap and neckerchief in a sepia police photograph
    Ernest Bayles, 1905. West Midlands Police · Public domain

    Ernest Bayles

  4. A young man in a flat cap and spotted neckerchief in a sepia police photograph
    Stephen McNickle, 1904. West Midlands Police · Public domain

    Stephen McNickle

  5. A boy holding a slate with his name chalked on it in a sepia police photograph
    Charles Lambourne, 1905. West Midlands Police · Public domain

    Charles Lambourne

Two tiers of cell doors and iron railings along a glass-roofed gallery
The top floor of the Steelhouse Lane lock-up, July 2026. Martinvl · CC BY-SA 4.0

The Lock-up, Steelhouse Lane

The Grade II listed Steelhouse Lane lock-up opened in 1891 and was in use until 2016.

West Midlands Police Museum, 40 Steelhouse Lane, B4 6BJ. Wednesday to Saturday, 10am–4pm; adults £10.

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West Midlands Police Museum

West Midlands Police Museum

Birmingham · Wednesday to Saturday, 10am–4pm · adults £10

The Victorian lock-up on Steelhouse Lane, where prisoners’ mugshots were taken on the top floor, including the Peaky Blinders.

Plan a visit

The Immortal Man · 2026

Wind the paddle.
Take the boat on.

Steven Knight, grey-haired and bearded, in a white shirt, blue tie and dark jacket, smiling in front of patterned wallpaper
Steven Knight, Birmingham, March 2020. Taylor Rooke · CC BY-SA 4.0
“It’s always important for me to feature canals in my productions, canals are part of my palette.”
  1. Netherton
  2. Birmingham
  3. The Dee valley

Water level 0 of 3.

The brick mouth of a canal tunnel with a towpath beside the water
Netherton Tunnel’s south portal at Windmill End, by Bumble Hole. Tina Cordon · CC BY-SA 3.0

Pound 1 of 3 · Netherton

Bumble Hole and Netherton Tunnel

Windmill End, Netherton, Dudley · 13 km from Small Heath

A narrowboat carries Stephen Graham through Netherton Tunnel.

The Immortal Man was filmed on the Dudley Canal and at the Bumble Hole and Warrens Hall nature reserves.

Stephen Graham was photographed on a narrowboat passing through Netherton Tunnel.

Bumble Hole Visitor Centre, Windmill End, Dudley DY2 9HU. The towpath and the nature reserve are open to walk.

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The racecard · Liverpool and the Wirral

Liverpool
played Birmingham.

VisitBritain calls Liverpool the place where most of the original series was filmed.

Says who
A long, empty terraced street with blackened brick house fronts
Powis Street, Toxteth, October 2016. Rodhullandemu · CC BY-SA 3.0

Series 1, episode 1 · Watery Lane

Powis Street, Toxteth

The Welsh Streets, Toxteth, Liverpool · 125 km from Small Heath

In the first minutes of series one, Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) rides a horse down a muddy street named Watery Lane. It was filmed on Powis Street.

Watery Lane was made from several small Liverpool streets, including Powis Street in the Welsh Streets of Toxteth.

A residential street in Toxteth, L8. People live here: look from the pavement.

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Helen McCrory smiling, in glasses and a dark floral top
Helen McCrory, June 2017. She played Aunt Polly. INCA Productions · CC BY-SA 3.0
Brit Movie Tours

Peaky Blinders walking tour of Liverpool

Liverpool · Saturdays at 10am, March to November · adults £25

Four hours and two miles past more than 15 filming sites in the city centre, from outside Liverpool Town Hall, with a drink and a 48-hour hop-on bus pass. Run in partnership with the show’s makers.

Book the walk
Titanic Hotel Liverpool

Titanic Hotel, Stanley Dock

Stanley Dock, Liverpool

Rooms in a historic warehouse on Stanley Dock, where the series-one showdown with Billy Kimber was filmed outside the old Tobacco factory. A rum bar and an underground spa. Pictured: the dock.

Check rooms

Manchester, Cheshire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire

Two houses
for one man.

A brick Victorian hall at the end of a gravel drive between low walls
Arley Hall, September 2019. Brian Deegan · CC BY-SA 2.0

Series 3–6 · 103 km from Small Heath

Arley Hall

Fans will recognise Arley Hall as Thomas Shelby’s home from series three; it was a filming venue for six years, across series three to six.

The library was Tommy’s office, the South Bay his and Grace’s bedroom, and the gallery the wedding breakfast room.

In series three it was the backdrop for a showdown with Alfie Solomons.

Northwich CW9 6NA. Gardens daily 10am–5pm until 1 November, adults £13; the hall opens on several days a month, an £8 upgrade.

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  • An empty tiled swimming pool under a glass roof with bunting and changing cubicles
    The drained pool at Victoria Baths, September 2023. Ridiculopathy · CC0

    Series 2 · The horse fair

    Victoria Baths

    The Grade II listed former swimming baths doubled as the horse fair where Tommy meets May.

    Hathersage Road, Manchester M13 0FE. Opening is limited, March to November: open days and tours are on the baths’ events page.

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  • Tall stone warehouses facing each other across a narrow street
    Little Germany, Bradford, seen from Hick Street, February 2008. Tim Green from Bradford · CC BY 2.0

    Series 4 · December 1925

    Little Germany, Bradford

    A good part of series four, which begins in December 1925, was filmed in Bradford: City Hall, the Midland Hotel, the Bradford Club and a warehouse in Little Germany.

    Around Peckover Street, Bradford BD1: public streets, open to walk.

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  • A maroon heritage train beside a canopied station platform
    The Worth Valley platforms at Keighley station, August 2023. John Lucas · CC BY-SA 2.0

    November 2012 · The station

    Keighley station, Worth Valley Railway

    Scenes in the very first episode were filmed at Keighley station in November 2012.

    Keighley station, BD21: the Worth Valley platforms. Steam trains run on set days; check the railway’s timetable.

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Arley Hall & Gardens

Holiday cottages at Arley Hall

Arley, Cheshire

Six self-catering cottages on the estate that played Tommy Shelby’s house, sleeping four to eight. Pictured: the hall.

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A cream-painted Victorian corner pub with a hanging sign
The Garrison, Garrison Lane, June 2015. Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0

Bordesley and Small Heath

Last orders
in Small Heath.

The show’s Garrison Tavern was inspired by a real pub of the same name in Small Heath.

The real Peaky Blinders were a gang from Birmingham. Watery Lane was a real place in Small Heath.

110 Garrison Lane, Bordesley B9 4BS, east of the city centre. See the old pub from the street.

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Where it is now

17 places you can visit, from a pub corner in Small Heath to an aqueduct in Wales. Distances are from the Garrison on Garrison Lane.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Tipton Road, Dudley DY1 4SQ. Peaky Blinders filming location tours on selected Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11.30am and 1.30pm: 75–90 minutes, ages 16+, pre-booked, with a full day’s museum admission.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Bumble Hole Visitor Centre, Windmill End, Dudley DY2 9HU. The towpath and the nature reserve are open to walk.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A canal basin in the city centre, B1 2JS: walk the towpaths at any time.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. 110 Garrison Lane, Bordesley B9 4BS, east of the city centre. See the old pub from the street.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. West Midlands Police Museum, 40 Steelhouse Lane, B4 6BJ. Wednesday to Saturday, 10am–4pm; adults £10.

  1. A narrow canal with a moored boat, a brick bridge and a towpath beside brick workshops
    The canal and towpath at the Black Country Living Museum, August 2025. HJ Mitchell · CC BY 4.0

    Tipton Road, Dudley, West Midlands · 15 km from Small Heath

    Black Country Living Museum

    The open-air museum in Dudley appears across all six series of the show.

    Tipton Road, Dudley DY1 4SQ. Peaky Blinders filming location tours on selected Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11.30am and 1.30pm: 75–90 minutes, ages 16+, pre-booked, with a full day’s museum admission.

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  2. The brick mouth of a canal tunnel with a towpath beside the water
    Netherton Tunnel’s south portal at Windmill End, by Bumble Hole. Tina Cordon · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Windmill End, Netherton, Dudley · 13 km from Small Heath

    Bumble Hole and Netherton Tunnel

    The Immortal Man was filmed on the Dudley Canal and at the Bumble Hole and Warrens Hall nature reserves.

    Bumble Hole Visitor Centre, Windmill End, Dudley DY2 9HU. The towpath and the nature reserve are open to walk.

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  3. Narrowboats moored in a canal basin below modern towers
    Gas Street Basin, Birmingham, July 2024. The wub · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Gas Street, central Birmingham · 3 km from Small Heath

    Gas Street Basin

    The Immortal Man filmed on location in Birmingham, including Gas Street Basin.

    A canal basin in the city centre, B1 2JS: walk the towpaths at any time.

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  4. A cream-painted Victorian corner pub with a hanging sign
    The Garrison, Garrison Lane, June 2015. Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0

    Garrison Lane, Bordesley, Birmingham

    The Garrison, Garrison Lane

    The real Peaky Blinders were a gang from Birmingham.

    110 Garrison Lane, Bordesley B9 4BS, east of the city centre. See the old pub from the street.

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  5. Two tiers of cell doors and iron railings along a glass-roofed gallery
    The top floor of the Steelhouse Lane lock-up, July 2026. Martinvl · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Steelhouse Lane, central Birmingham · 1 km from Small Heath

    The Lock-up, Steelhouse Lane

    The Grade II listed Steelhouse Lane lock-up opened in 1891 and was in use until 2016.

    West Midlands Police Museum, 40 Steelhouse Lane, B4 6BJ. Wednesday to Saturday, 10am–4pm; adults £10.

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Stay

Sleep on the set.

A warehouse hotel on Stanley Dock, and cottages on the estate that played Tommy’s house.

Titanic Hotel Liverpool

Titanic Hotel, Stanley Dock

Stanley Dock, Liverpool

Rooms in a historic warehouse on Stanley Dock, where the series-one showdown with Billy Kimber was filmed outside the old Tobacco factory. A rum bar and an underground spa. Pictured: the dock.

Check rooms
Arley Hall & Gardens

Holiday cottages at Arley Hall

Arley, Cheshire

Six self-catering cottages on the estate that played Tommy Shelby’s house, sleeping four to eight. Pictured: the hall.

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Go there

Walk the streets.

The museum’s own filming tours, the Liverpool walk, the police lock-up, and marketplace tours in both cities.

Black Country Living Museum

Peaky Blinders filming location tours

Dudley · Selected Wednesdays and Saturdays · 11.30am or 1.30pm · museum admission included

A costumed guide walks you to Charlie Strong’s Yard, St James’s School, the canal towpath, Freddy and Ada’s meeting place by the Canal Street bridge, the Blacksmith’s Workshop and the Anchor Forge. Ages 16+.

Book a tour
Brit Movie Tours

Peaky Blinders walking tour of Liverpool

Liverpool · Saturdays at 10am, March to November · adults £25

Four hours and two miles past more than 15 filming sites in the city centre, from outside Liverpool Town Hall, with a drink and a 48-hour hop-on bus pass. Run in partnership with the show’s makers.

Book the walk
West Midlands Police Museum

West Midlands Police Museum

Birmingham · Wednesday to Saturday, 10am–4pm · adults £10

The Victorian lock-up on Steelhouse Lane, where prisoners’ mugshots were taken on the top floor, including the Peaky Blinders.

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What’s on

Peaky Blinders Nights.

The Black Country Living Museum after dark, in November and again in March.

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Take it home

The real story and the music.

Carl Chinn on the real gangs, the soundtrack and Anna Calvi’s score.

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Peaky Blinders: The Real Story

Carl Chinn

The historian of Birmingham’s gangs on the real Peaky Blinders.

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The Real Peaky Blinders: The Legacy

Carl Chinn

Chinn again, on the gangs and what came after them.

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Peaky Blinders: The Official Soundtrack

Various Artists · 2 CD, 2019

The songs from the series.

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Peaky Blinders: Season 5 & 6 Original Score

Anna Calvi · 2 CD, 2024

Anna Calvi’s score for the last two series.

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Dates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.

The settled book

Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.

17 of 17 places · 18 of 18 Moments

  • Black Country Living Museum

    Tipton Road, Dudley, West Midlands

    • Charlie’s Yard

      Danny Whizzbang is shot in Charlie’s Yard.

    • Charlie’s yard again

      The museum doubles as Charlie Strong’s yard for the film.

  • Bumble Hole and Netherton Tunnel

    Windmill End, Netherton, Dudley

    • Netherton Tunnel

      A narrowboat carries Stephen Graham through Netherton Tunnel.

  • Gas Street Basin

    Gas Street, central Birmingham

    • Gas Street

      The film shoots on the canals in the middle of Birmingham.

  • The Garrison, Garrison Lane

    Garrison Lane, Bordesley, Birmingham

    • The real Garrison

      A real Small Heath pub gives the Garrison its name.

  • The Lock-up, Steelhouse Lane

    Steelhouse Lane, central Birmingham

    • The mugshots

      Birmingham police photograph the Peaky Blinders on the lock-up’s top floor.

  • Powis Street, Toxteth

    The Welsh Streets, Toxteth, Liverpool

    • Watery Lane

      Tommy Shelby rides a horse down Watery Lane in the first minutes of the first episode.

  • Stanley Dock

    Regent Road, Liverpool

    • The showdown

      The Peaky Blinders face Billy Kimber outside the old Tobacco factory.

  • Falkner Square

    The Georgian Quarter, Liverpool

    • The bomb

      John walks away from the bomb with the square behind him.

  • St George’s Hall

    St George’s Place, Liverpool

    • Grace

      Grace is killed at an event Tommy is hosting.

  • Port Sunlight

    Port Sunlight, Wirral

    • Polly’s house

      The Shelby brothers give Aunt Polly a house in a quiet village.

  • Formby Beach

    Formby Point, Sefton

    • Margate

      Tommy finds Alfie Solomons on the beach.

  • Victoria Baths

    Hathersage Road, Manchester

    • The horse fair

      Tommy meets May at the horse fair.

  • Arley Hall

    Arley, near Northwich, Cheshire

    • Tommy’s house

      Arley Hall becomes Thomas Shelby’s country house.

  • Little Germany, Bradford

    Peckover Street, Bradford

    • December 1925

      Much of series four is filmed in Bradford, among the warehouses of Little Germany.

  • Keighley station, Worth Valley Railway

    Keighley, West Yorkshire

    • The station

      Scenes for the first episode are filmed at Keighley station.

  • Calke Abbey

    Ticknall, Derbyshire

    • The writing room

      Calke’s schoolroom becomes Tommy Shelby’s writing room.

  • Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

    Trevor, near Llangollen, Wrexham

    • The aqueduct

      A helicopter films the aqueduct from the air.

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