BRADFORD’s most iconic mill is to be used as a backdrop for a new Netflix drama.

Filming will take place at Lister Mills, Manningham, this week for Bodies, which is set to star Line of Duty actor Stephen Graham.

He will join The Queen’s Gambit Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Unorthodox’s Shira Haas and The Responder’s Amaka Okafor.

The eight-part series will follow four different eras of London as the same murder is investigated.

A letter sent to residents of Lister Mills says the series will cover four time periods - 1890s, 1940s, 2023 and 2053.

It adds: “The series is set in London and we’re filming at Lister Mills which will act as one of our 2053 filming locations.

“Over the past few months we have been filming in Bradford and all over Yorkshire.”

The scenes will be filmed at the far end of the Lister Mills site, on the Beamsley Road side of the mill complex and crews will be “utilising the old remnants of the silk factory to form parts of our 2053 world”.

The filming will take place on Thursday between 2pm and 2.30am.

The letter said: “The majority of our scenes require night, therefore we would like to film until 2am.

“We will do our utmost to keep any noise to an absolute minimum, we will be off site by 3am.”

Beamsley Road will be closed so lighting cranes can be put up safely to light the scenes being shot.

The closure will be between 11am and 3am on Thursday. Another lighting crane will be situated within the old site of Lister Mills, near the chimney.

The letter adds: “Please be reassured, our entire crew fully understand and appreciate we are coming to a residential area to film.

“We will continue to respect your local area and do the upmost to ensure your day-to-day remains as unaffected as possible.

“We appreciate that we are very privileged to film in Bradford and we do not take for granted the support we are shown from residents, for which we are hugely grateful.”

It’s understood filming for the series has also taken place in Little Germany.

The Bradford district is cementing itself as a key location for filming for high-profile films and TV dramas. These include The Crown, Gentleman Jack, Peaky Blinders, The Witcher: Blood Origin, Ali & Ava, Happy Valley, Malpractice, The Long Shadow,  The Railway Children Return, The Duke, The Hunt for Raoul Moat and more.

David Wilson, director of Bradford UNESCO City of Film, previously told the Telegraph & Argus: “It’s evident that we are doing something right in Bradford, with all the infrastructure in place to accommodate these high-end dramas.”