Peaky Blinders: Filming for the fourth series of Birmingham show continues in Manchester - with pictures

Pictures have emerged showing filming for the fourth series of Peaky Blinders in Manchester.

Filming began in March in Liverpool before switching to Manchester this month.

Crews will be coming to the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley next month.

At the filming in Manchester, photographers spied on Cillian Murphy, aged 40, playing the part of Tommy Shelby.

He is seen alongside new co-star Adrien Brody.

The Irish actor was seen in a three-piece suit with his iconic cap.

He was seen on an iron staircase outside a building, descending the steps with a gun in his hand.

Adrien was also seen on set. But it is not yet clear who he is playing.

Other cast members Tom Hardy, Paul Anderson, Helen McCrory and Joe Cole have been using derelict houses and other 1920s-looking areas around the UK which have been dressed to look like Birmingham in that era.

Filming is due to take four months.

Once finished, Birmingham-based screenwriter-director Steven Knight, who created the show, will oversee three months of editing, with the next chapter in the Peaky Blinders story expected to be aired on BBC2 in the autumn.

The most recent series, which was broadcast in May last year, was set two years after the second season in 1924, and followed the gang's attempts to expand internationally.

The new series will take up the story from the police raid in last year's final episode when three of the Shelby family were seen being led off by police.

However, cunning Tommy Shelby avoided arrest, leaving fans to question what will happen to him and his sidekicks.

The drama has brought welcome attention to the Black Country Living Museum.

On the themed evenings, an onsite 1930s-style barber will give visitors a haircut by appointment, for those who want to perfect their Peaky look.

Two of the four themed nights planned for this September are already sold out.