Halifax is one of the filming locations for ‘The English Game’ a 6 part dramatic representation of a true story from 1879 which is due to be screened next year on Netflix.
The cameras and crew were seen in July in Saltaire, a ‘model village’ built by the mill owner Sir Titus Salt about 10 miles away, but this week they’ve been spotted round and about Halifax in such varied locations as Brackenbed Lane and Manor Heath, which incidentally has also been seen this week on C4 in ‘Ackley Bridge’.
The drama, written by Julian Fellowes, creator of ‘Downton Abbey’, is centred around a young football player from Glasgow who ventures South to play for Darwen in Lancashire. The cast includes Edward Holcroft from ‘Kingsman’, Kevin Guthrie (Fantastic Beasts:-The Crimes of Ginderwald), Craig Parkinson from ‘Line of Duty’, Charlotte Hope who played Myranda in ‘Game of Thrones’ and Katy Phillips of ‘Peaky Blinders’.
