FILMING for a major BBC drama is continuing for a second day in the Bradford district today. Gentleman Jack is being filmed at Salts Mill in the village after part of it has been turned into a street scene, including a pub and a chemist, for the series. A large white crane, with Warner Brothers set lighting and rigging written on it, was also at the filming location. The award-winning drama, created by Sally Wainwright, follows the life of 19th century landowner Anne Lister, played by Suranne Jones. Street signs say parking on Victoria Road in the village has been suspended until 11.59pm today while scenes are shot, with red and white tape in certain areas preventing parking.
FILMING for Gentleman Jack is underway in Saltaire today. Work has been ongoing for a number of weeks to turn part of the iconic Salts Mill into an old street scene for the second series of the show. It includes a pub, tailors and a chemist. The award-winning drama, created by Sally Wainwright, which follows the life of 19th century landowner Anne Lister, has also been filming in Halifax and York. Parking on Victoria Road in the village has been suspended today while scenes are shot. Suranne Jones returns as Anne Lister in the BBC series, co-produced with HBO. Bradford-born actor Timothy West is also among the cast for the series.
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In 1835, Charlotte Brontë took up teaching at West Yorkshire’s Roe Head School, where she herself had been a student several years earlier. To say she disliked the gig would be an understatement.
“Am I to spend all the best part of my life in this wretched bondage,” she wrote in her journal in August 1836, “forcibly suppressing my rage at the idleness, the apathy, and the hyperbolical and most asinine stupidity of these fat-headed oafs, and on compulsion assuming an air of kindness, patience, and assiduity?”
What she really wanted to do was write, which, as we know, she eventually did. But it wasn’t an easy road, in large part because she was a woman. Poet laureate Robert Southey once told her that “literature cannot be the business of a woman s life, and it ought not to be.”
PARKING will be suspended on the main road through Saltaire tomorrow as filming for the hit BBC show Gentleman Jack gets underway. Part of the iconic Salts Mill has been turned into an old street scene for the second series of the show. It includes a pub, tailors and a chemist. The award-winning drama, created by Sally Wainwright, which follows the life of 19th century landowner Anne Lister, has also been filming in Halifax and York. This notice has been posted on Victoria Road in the village and comes into force at midnight. Suranne Jones returns as Anne Lister in the BBC series, co-produced with HBO. Bradford-born actor Timothy West is also among the cast for the series.
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