Peaky Blinders gin smager fantastisk. Faktisk, så smager den så godt, at den har vundet priser for den smag blandt andet ved ‘San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2018’ og ‘International Spirits Challenge 2018’. 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.” Greg Millar, one of the co-founders let me behind the bar for a closer look at the two dozen distillations, and though I never watched the TV series about some Midlands mobsters who sewed razor blades into the brims of their hats, the label did make Peaky Blinder stand out as a brand I hadn’t tried before.

On Tommy’s desk at his stately home is a golden eagle inkstand flanked by two golden lions, each selected, explains set decorator Jonnie Mead, to represent Tommy’s leadership and power. “He’s being challenged by everyone, by the family and those outside of the family who he fears want to take his crown, so consequently he wants these markers that say ‘I am in charge, I’m the boss. While these things stay on his desk, he is the guy you do not challenge.’ ‘…an act of love’While mirrors were used in connection with Oswald Mosley’s character to reflect his extreme narcissism, for Tommy Shelby they meant something else. In the Bingley Hall dressing room, Tommy was reflected on both sides, creating a hall of mirrors effect says Northridge. “It’s so he can’t escape his own mind,” explains Northridge. “It’s just confusion and chaos, which is why we wanted that layering of reflections going on for infinity. He’s finally met the man he can’t defeat – or understand – and it’s himself.” Peaky series five Easter Eggs and Trivia The dramatic, abstract lighting in the Commons Chamber set at the Houses of Parliament was in part a nod to Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour film about Churchill in WWII, and partly a canny budget save to avoid building more of the set than would be seen.

Arthur’s reluctance to embrace change and modernity is reflected in his home. Despite having a new house for series five, fans will spot the same crucifixes, photos and pictures that he’s had on show for years. “He’s not about moving forward,” says Mead. “He still wants to hold onto the Shelbys as they were.” Nemlig med en Peaky Blinder Gin og en sixpence på hovedet. Denne gin er ikke bare fjollet merchandise for den legandariske bande, der efter første verdenskrig huserede Birminghams gader.Winston Churchill: Played by Andy Nyman, Richard McCabe and Neil Maskell, this future British prime minister was, in fact, a real guy. For more on this, see the first season of The Crown. (Or, you know, read almost any history book.) 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. 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. The Commons Chamber benches were repurposed for the gallery set where Ada watched Tommy give a parliamentary speech. 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.