We recommend The Choral, another film set in Yorkshire.
The Choral is a film set in 1916 and is filmed mainly in Saltaire, the model village created near Bradford by Sir Titus Salt. However the millpond swimming scene is shot at Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags, near Hebden Bridge which is a beautiful place to visit from Dyer’s Cottage especially if you are NT members as this entitles you to free parking. The railway scenes are set on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway platforms of Keighley railway station and the pub scenes take place in the little changed Big Six Inn near us on Skircoat Moor Halifax. The film is about the mill male choral society which is sadly depleted of members due to the First World War and necessity forces the organisers to accept both women and under conscription age boys. Performing a piece by a German composer for the annual production is out of the question, but they rise to the challenge of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius. Written by Alan Bennett and directed by Nicholas Hytner, with Ralph Fiennes as choirmaster, The Choral is not to be missed.
Credit to Hobo Tom Photography for the photos of Gibson Mill and Keighley station.
