Former Haworth employee now appearing in major new drama about Brontes visits her old workplace

Haworth-based company and is now part of a major new BBC production about the Brontes dropped in to visit former colleagues. Megan Parkinson, who is playing the part of Martha Brown in the BBC production To Walk Invisible, visited Airedale Springs.

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To Walk Invisible, written and directed by Sally Wainwright, is a drama about the Bronte family and is being filmed in Haworth over the next few weeks, including on Penistone Hill and in Main Street.

Megan, 19, a former South Craven School pupil, is originally from Silsden and worked for Airedale Springs in 2014 to 2015 before moving to London last year.

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Haworth Main Street is being taken back to the 1840s.

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An exciting start to the week, Haworth Main Street is being taken back to the 1840s and filming has commenced at the Bronte Parsonage television set.
 

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Attention to the tiniest detail of the Brontë family's famous Haworth home has amazed and delighted local experts helping with the BBC project which starts filming on location this week.  An exact copy of the Parsonage, where the literary sisters wrote their world-famous works, is now complete on nearby Penistone Hill.  The three-story timber and MDF building will provide a perfect 1840s backdrop for the BBC TV drama, To Walk Invisible, created by award-winning Yorkshire writer and playwright Sally Wainwright, said Rebecca Yorke, marketing officer of the Parsonage Museum.
"Everyone here has been absolutely staggered by the BBC's attention to detail," she said.
"We were invited to studios in Manchester where they are filming interior scenes and it really was quite unnerving for us to be in this amazing replica.  "It was just like our own building down to the very last thing - only more "lived-in" and a bit scruffy as it would have been at the time.
"Our Parsonage is much more how it was after Charlotte had enjoyed some success and spent some money on it.  "Production staff spent ages with us to produce an exact copy of the building, even measuring flagstones to get them just right and have copied all the gravestones which are in place with all the words carved into them.  "Examples of other attention to detail are that they have got the right pet dogs, Flossie, a spaniel cross and Keeper, a mastiff type.  "And they have also made copies of the dog's original named collars - which is an incredible approach."  Collection manager at the Parsonage Ann Dinsdale said she was particularly impressed by the quality of costumes.
"It's going to look absolutely stunning, the dresses and clothes have been copied perfectly.  "The BBC has done a huge amount of research, even to the extent of producing manuscripts, letters and the portable writing desks which the sisters used, full of things like pen nibs, ink wells and blotting paper.  "They have even copied poetry manuscripts and Emily's little notebooks written tiny script," she said.  Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury Parish Council's new chairman, Councillor Angel Kershaw, said everyone was looking forward to seeing the finished drama.  "It's fascinating to see all the work and all looks very good and so authentic.  "The producer came to talk to the parish council and said he would be happy to have local people involved as extras during the filming.  "Another thing is that when they've finished filming they've also promised to leave the site exactly as it was."
Faith Penhale, executive producer for Lookout Point - which is making the drama with the BBC, said: "It is such a treat to be able to film our drama about the Brontë sisters in and around Yorkshire, where the Brontë sisters came from.  "Everyone has been so supportive and excited, which we all really appreciate." (Chris Tate) bronteblog/absolutely-staggered-by-bbcs-attention

Bronte sister's burial records go online.

BURIAL records for the youngest of Haworth's famous Bronte sisters are included in a new online archive. Family history website findmypast.co.uk has published for the first time more than 5.4 million Yorkshire registers, including births, deaths and marriages. The Yorkshire Digitisation project, launched two years ago, comprises scanned images of original handwritten registers and marks the final phase of a collection spanning the years 1538 to 1990. Anne Bronte can be found in the burial records for St Mary's Parish Church, in Scarborough. Read more: keighleynews