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- What you may not know is that most of the filming took place right here, at Shrewsbury Prison! One cloudy day in November 2020, the BBC took over the prison for a total of two months, bringing with them some of the Nation’s best loved actors, to create a gritty and realistic look into an otherwise unseen World…life behind prison walls.
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Our film production locations can tell the story of 400 years of prison and social history. We play host to small scale productions, music videos and educational productions, through to medium scale entertainment and drama, right up to major Hollywood blockbusters.
Shrewsbury Prison offers the perfect, authentic prison location for filming. Boasting over four acres of space, it features original Victorian prison buildings and cells that spread over four floors, making it the ideal space for companies looking for film production locations.
Shrewsbury Prison offers a unique filming location, easily accessible in the West Midlands. Our Victorian prison was decommissioned in 2013 and retains many of the features familiar to inmates today. This one-of-a-kind setting has hosted productions for films, television series, and adverts throughout 2023. We look back on the highlights of the ...
The main gate of "Slade Prison" was filmed at The Gate House, St Albans, Hertfordshire. This was was originally built as the town jail, back in the Victorian era. It was being used as a council works depot at the time Porridge was filmed.
Jul 23, 2024 · The historic look of the building would have been a draw to the filmmakers, much like with Marylebone station. The interiors were filmed at another former prison, Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin, which is now a museum. Scenes in The Italian Job were also filmed at Kilmainham in the 1960s.
Filming took place over November and December 2020, with very strict COVID restrictions in place, which meant no one other than BBC authorised personnel/actors/staff could enter the prison. The BBC even lost Sean Bean for a few days after a COVID contact scare.
Jun 6, 2021 · The drama’s prison scenes were filmed late last year in HM Shrewsbury, a former prison that was decommissioned in March 2013. Other scenes were filmed in and around series star Graham’s...
