The positioning of the Shelby men’s portraits in the company boardroom is significant as a visual demonstration of Tommy’s power over, and in series five, distance from, Arthur and Michael.

The swan was the motif for Grace this year,” she explains. It represents Grace’s purity and elegance, and its repeated appearances across the series reflect the way the Grace is continually playing on Tommy’s mind. “Grace is calling him home, saying. ‘Come and be with me’. It’s pretty chilling with the swan being such a beautiful, iconic animal, that it’s a metaphor for Grace and Tommy’s suicidal thoughts.” ‘The stained glass is a connection to Tommy’s regiment’ While the other characters take opium and cocaine from plain bottles, Polly’s are always ornately decorated with silver carvings and stoppers. “You go up a stage for Polly,” says Mead, “it’s always that bit more decorative and beautiful”. The games industry and confectionery manufacturers have long been experts at tapping into the popularity of films and TV programmes to push their products – especially to younger customers – but my decision to try the Peaky Blinder Spiced Dry Gin proves that such marketing ploys can catch the attention of the more mature consumer – even one who’s partially sighted.Alfie Solomons: Solomons is based on a real-life gangster named Alfred Solomon. Like most Tom Hardy characters, the accent is purely of his own invention. No one but Tom Hardy would ever talk like that. Særligt anbefaler vi, at du prøver Fever-Trees Aromatic tonic. Smagen fra denne tonic får de bedste krydderier fra ginnen frem. Samtidig, så får den en unik farve, der kan imponere de fleste.

The Commons Chamber benches were repurposed for the gallery set where Ada watched Tommy give a parliamentary speech. A real swan was also filmed but later cut from the episode four scene in which Tommy stands on the bridge over the canal contemplating suicide, and has a vision of The January coal barge bearing the half-buried corpse of his dead wife Grace. “We had a swan who swam under the bridge for real with an animal wrangler and then the barge came under with Grace in it. There’s a little clip that’s missing,” says production designer Nicole Northridge. On the chalkboard behind Finn in his Small Heath office are written the names of race horses, many of which have narrative significance. One is ‘Golden Brown’, a reference to the family’s opium deal this series. There’s a “family tree of guns” says Mead, a hierarchy ensuring that Tommy always carried the weapon with the most authority compared to the rest of the Shelbys.Also incorporated into the stained glass design on the Tavern windows is a rising sun bursting with rays. “One, it’s the 1920s, we’re into the deco period,” says Northridge, “but it’s also the rising sun and rays of hope.” Darby Sabini: Noah Taylor’s Italian kingpin was a real English criminal who clashed with Kimber and his Birmingham Boys over control of racecourses for years.

The sign for W. Northridge and Son Builders seen in the exterior of the Shelby Co. office is a tribute to the production designer’s father, a builder by trade. Image credit: Nicole Northridge

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