From the 17th century Stockport became a centre for the hatting industry and later the silk industry. Stockport expanded rapidly during the Industrial Revolution, helped particularly by the growth of the cotton manufacturing industries.
The cast and crew have swooped on Mersey Square in front of The Plaza for a political rally scene. The Peaky Blinders gang have swooped on Stockport town centre as filming for series five continues. The cast and camera crews have descended on Mersey Square, in front of The Plaza, for the two day shoot.
The place to start is the Price family home, which has attracted a great deal of attention on social media. This is Park End House in Didsbury Park, a southern suburb of Manchester.
Netflix cast and crew have descended on Stockport to film period drama The House of Guinness. The cast and crew of major Netflix period drama The House of Guinness have returned to the streets of Stockport to take the town back in time to the 19th century.
The police station in which Kat (Rosalind Eleazar) and Stagger (Richard Armitage) work at was actually filmed in Stockport, with Armitage revealing that it was one of his favourite locations to shoot in. He said: "Often, they are just mundane sets of banks of computers, strip lighting and low ceilings.
Born in Stockport, Wood was raised in the parish of Bramhall as a teenager after her parents divorced. She moved from a state-school education to private school because her mother's boyfriend offered to pay for it. There — with her thicker accent — she found herself out of place.
Stockport is rising as a popular choice for filming with the likes of Peaky Blinders, BBC drama Sherwood, ITV's After the Flood, and Harlan Coben Netflix series The Stranger and Stay Close having been filmed there in recent years.
What pub is Peaky Blinders filmed in? The show's iconic Garrison Tavern was mostly a set, but real pubs in Manchester and Liverpool were used for certain scenes.
Filming took place around Liverpool, including St George's Hall and William Brown Street, where signs reading 'Vote for Mr Arthur Guinness' and even an orchestra could be seen. Other scenes were filmed at Stanley Dock and the country estate Croxteth Hall.
Bramhall is home to some of the borough's biggest and best homes. From modern mansions to countryside estates, Bramhall takes affluent living to a high level. Manchester City FC star Phil Foden recently moved to the area and it is the former home of Manchester United legend George Best.
Coco Savannah was a popular '90s nightclub at the heart of the new Grand Central leisure complex. One of Stockport's premier clubs in the early Nineties, people have memories of Take That performing at the venue before they made it big.
Stockport's rise as a go-to film location hits prime time again this week, as BBC comedy The Power of Parker returns for a second series this evening, Friday, at 9.30pm on BBC One.
The primary location for Mamma Mia! is on the island of Skopelos, with some scenes shot also on the island of Skiathos. Both Skopelos and Skiathos are part of the Sporades islands. There is also a third location, the seaside village of Damouchari in Pelion, where Mamma Mia! was shot.
Cedarfield in Harlan Coben's The Stranger on Netflix is in the north west of England. All of the limited series was filmed in the area, including Manchester's Piccadilly and Ancoats, Didsbury, Stockport town centre, Spinningfields, Bolton and Great Harwood in Lancashire.
Production and filming for House of Guinness commenced from summer 2024 onwards, and some very well-known Greater Manchester places were used as filming locations, such as the Northern Quarter, and Stockport's legendary Underbanks. Mansions in Cheshire and Liverpool were also used as filming locations for the show.
Manchester is a hotspot for filming some of the best film and TV around, and now there's another production to add to the roster. Filming has wrapped on Daddy Issues, a brand new six-part comedy from the team behind White Gold and The Inbetweeners, set in Stockport, and the long-awaited trailer has now been released.
Filming is underway in Stockport town centre for a new Netflix series. Crews arrived in Stockport on Wednesday 7 May to shoot scenes for 'Run Away' - the new series based on Harlan Coben's book of the same name.
All the Greater Manchester filming locations for new Netflix series 'The Stranger' revealed. There must be something about this cloudy, rainy but incredible city of ours – production crews are climbing over each other to use it as the backdrop to a string of binge-worthy TV series and cinema-worthy movies.
Netflix thriller The Stranger. The Stranger unites some of British telly's best-loved drama and comedy actors, including Richard Armitage, Siobhan Finneran, Anthony Head, Hannah John-Kamen, Dervla Kirwan and Jennifer Saunders. The filming locations in and around Manchester are as varied and impressive as the cast.
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