![]() The Shane Meadows series, starring Michael Socha as gang leader David Hartley, is filmed on location around Hebden Bridge, where the actual story fictionalised by Myers in his 2019 novel played out. And Secret Invasion is just one of the latest of a growing number of TV and film productions using Halifax and its surrounding Calderdale area for filming.Īnother one hits TV screens on 31 May – a BBC2 adaptation of the Ben Myers novel The Gallows Pole, which tells the true story of the Cragg Vale Coiners, who almost brought down the Bank of England through a gold coin-forging operation they launched in the 18th century as a novel way to cope with widespread poverty and deprivation: just make more money to spend. Thankfully, the Grade I listed building is still in one piece. ![]() “When we came back to the shop after filming, there was soot all over the windows from the explosions they’d been doing!” says Georgie Evans, who runs the Book Corner shop in Piece Hall. The teaser trailer released last week shows the huge courtyard of Piece Hall bedecked in Russian regalia and exploding dramatically, with Samuel L Jackson’s super secret agent, Nick Fury, on the case. Piece Hall doubles for Moscow in the next Marvel TV extravaganza Secret Invasion. ![]() ![]() ![]() So it’s a shame, then, that aliens have blown it up. ![]()
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