Actor Seen in Yorkshire

This photograph shows Scottish actor Bill Paterson on location in Yorkshire.

My friend Ellen Massarella who has a cafe in Saltaire was asked by a TV production company if they could film in her backyard. The drama that Hardy pictures was making for the BBC is being shown this week on BBC 4 here in the UK.

The drama is the story of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic and one doctor's pioneering efforts to protect the people of Manchester from this deadly virus.

Bill Paterson well known actor of stage, screen, TV and radio plays Dr James Niven, Manchester's Medical Officer of Health in the drama Spanish Flu - The Forgotten Fallen.

I spotted Bill between takes on location here in the village of Saltaire just outside Bradford in West Yorkshire. I asked if he would mind if I got a photograph for my blog and I said I had seen him The Crow Road (TV drama based on book by his fellow Scot Iain Banks. More recently you may have seen the 2008 BBC production of the Charles Dickens novel, Little Dorrit, in which Bill played Mr Meagles.

Although this drama is set in Manchester in 1918 it was filmed here in Yorkshire, with locations including Victoria Hall, Salt's Mill and Saltaire Village nr Bradford; Armley Mills Museum in Leeds; Keighley Worth Valley Railway Station, Lister Park in Manningham and Dewsbury Town Hall. The only location I do not know well is Dewsbury Town Hall, the other places I have photographed for my Leeds in Yorkshire photography blog.