Black Country Living Museum to be backdrop for new BBC series

The three-part season of Victorian Bakers explores the history of baking – and was part-filmed in the iconic Tipton Road venue.

Four modern bakers try to recreate the lives of their Victorian predecessors in the programme, which explores social and economic changes.

They will bake like it was the 1870s with the Black Country museum playing host.

According to a BBC preview: "Britain may have been an industrial superpower but it's the arrival of imported finely milled flour and cheap sugar that finally sweetens life for the bakers as it did for the masses.

"Cake maker Hapreet Baura tries her hand at producing hugely popular London Buns, the cupcake of their day."