Bradford & District | Archive | 1998 | May | 02
From the Telegraph & Argus, first published Saturday 2nd May 1998.
A Keighley museum is gaining increasing TV exposure.
Three historic wooden-bodied compartment railway carriages from the Vintage Carriages Trust (VCT) Museum at Ingrow were filmed for a new three-part television drama, The Unknown Soldier, which started on Tuesday evening.
The series stars Gary Mavers of Peak Practice fame, Frederick Treves, Pip Torrens, David Westhead and Juliet Aubrey. VCT provided three historic carriages which were built for the Metropolitan Railway:
Filming took place at the beginning of October.
A television crew also visited the award-winning museum for the first programme in a new BBC2 series titled 'Out and About'. Filmed earlier this month, the series features a family who have been taken to a tourist attraction, and the museum was perfect.
Items from the VCT's museum, library and shop were on screen earlier this month as set dressing for the television play Anorak of Fire, while three of VCT's railway carriages are on screen in the current cinema release 'Fairytale: a True Story'.
The Out and About screening comes a week before the official opening of VCT's museum extension, which takes place on Saturday, May 9. The opening ceremony is to be performed by Andrew Scott, head of the National Railway Mus-eum at York and Cllr Andy Mudd, chairman of the Keighley Single Regeneration Budget Challenge Fund.
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