Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy back with a vengeance at Black Country Museum
[gallery] Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy was back in the Midlands as filming for the next series of the TV smash hit drama switched to the Black Country Living Museum.
The action for the coming BBC2 series has fast forwarded three years to 1922 - and visitors to the Dudley museum were able to catch a glimpse of it all during filming.
The attraction's blacksmith forge and canals were the setting for some of the shots, while the rolling mill area became a scrap metal yard during 12-hour long days of filming by the 100-strong cast.
New cast member Tom Hardy, who will play a Londoner, starts filming today in Liverpool, where three terraced streets bought by Ringo Starr to preserve his birthplace have been turned into the Shelby neighbourhood of Watery Lane, Small Heath.
Other scenes are being shot in Manchester.
The stars and crew have spent three days at the museum this week, working 12-hour days until 11pm.
Peaky Blinders is set in Birmingham's gambling underworld in the aftermath of the First World War and the new series will be aired in the autumn.
It will see Tommy and his family expand their business empire, while maintaining a stronghold in their Birmingham heartland.
Cillian Murphy took the Best Actor award at the 27th Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels in Biarritz recently, while Helen McCrory also won the Best Actress accolade for her portrayal as the Shelby family matriarch, Aunt Polly.
The series also won the Best Original Soundtrack award, with composer Martin Phipps receiving the honour.
