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Cameras roll on Buttershaw film

Pamela Dunbar and her nephew Andrew Wheeler

7:20am Monday 21st September 2009

More than 30 years after Andrea Dunbar wrote about life on the Arbor, the area of Buttershaw estate where she lived, a hard-hitting scene from her play has been filmed at the site.

At the top of their game

Laurence Harvey who starred in Room at the Top

3:53pm Friday 26th June 2009

Room At The Top (1959)

Gritty city tale that won plaudits

Anna Maxwell Martin and Holly Kenny in White Girl

3:46pm Friday 26th June 2009

It was deemed highly controversial when it was aired, but the drama White Girl, filmed and set in Bradford, won critical acclaim – and a coveted Bafta.

Rita, Sue and a backlash

Rita, Sue and Bob Too was filmed in Buttershaw

3:39pm Friday 26th June 2009

Rita, Sue And Bob Too (1987)

Mirren and Walters keep date with Calendar Girls

Original Calendar Girls Angela Baker, left, and Tricia Stewart enjoy a joke with director Nigel Cole during the filming of the movie on location in the Yorkshire Dales

3:03pm Friday 26th June 2009

Calendar Girls (2003)

Cardinals in Shipley!

Monty Python visited Shipley

2:58pm Friday 26th June 2009

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)

Chugging into a place in our hearts

A Keighley and Worth Valley Railway locomotive plays a starring role in this scene from The Railway Children

2:57pm Friday 26th June 2009

The Railway Children (1970)

Theatre becomes the star!

Ben Kingsley as Shostakovich and Terence Rigby as Stalin in Testimony

2:45pm Friday 26th June 2009

The Dresser (1983)

Lots of extra special help for the Yanks

Richard Gere and Lisa Eichhorn in Yanks

2:34pm Friday 26th June 2009

Yanks (1979)

How Billy helped make a star of city

Gwendolyn Watts, Tom Courtenay and Helen Fraser in a scene from Billy Liar filmed at the Mecca ballroom in Manningham Lane. Right, the plaque commemorating filming in Sunbridge Road

2:32pm Friday 26th June 2009

Billy Liar (1963)

Undercliffe on the map

3:51pm Friday 26th June 2009

LA Without A Map (1998)

Wheels within wheels

3:55pm Friday 26th June 2009

A Boy, A Girl and a Bike (1949)

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