Flat fronted Georgian terraces around Falkner Square and Canning Street, the square Peaky Blinders used as Belgravia.
What Georgian Quarter looks like
Flat fronted Georgian terraces line , Falkner Square and in unbroken runs, three and four storeys over a basement in brick or painted stucco. Stone doorcases and fanlights mark most front doors, with cast iron balconies and railings repeating along the block. Sash windows run in even rows under flat parapets, with grouped brick chimney stacks along the roofline.
Falkner Square keeps its central garden behind iron railings, the cream stucco terraces on three sides built up to 1830. Canning Street runs south from the square toward Gambier Terrace, where Grade II listed gatepiers mark the corner with . A curved stone terrace with a canted bow window turns the corner of Canning Street and Percy Street.
Chatham Street and Falkner Street have the same bay windowed brick fronts, three bays wide with a shared fanlight over paired front doors. 's houses date from the 1780s to the 1820s, on the same grid. Falkner Street still has its granite sett roadway toward Sandon Street, though newer brick flats stand alongside the original terraces on some blocks.
Hope Street runs between the city's two cathedrals along the quarter's eastern edge, with the Philharmonic Dining Rooms on its corner with Hardman Street and the Everyman Theatre a few doors along. The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, built in the 1930s, stands further down the same street.
Shot in Georgian Quarter
Peaky Blinders used Falkner Square for an explosion scene in the second series, playing a street in London's Belgravia. Rodney Street was closed the same series for a costumed street scene with Cillian Murphy.
Peaky Blinders, Series 2
Played Belgravia, London, 1920s
The explosion that opens on what is meant to be a Belgravia townhouse was filmed on Falkner Square, with the square's own cast iron railings and garden visible as John walks away from the blast. The stucco terraces round three sides of the garden here are close in scale to the London squares the scene stands in for. Street View
What Georgian Quarter can double for
Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland
Dublin's Georgian squares match the Georgian Quarter's scale and period, built between the 1760s and 1820s in the same flat brick. Fanlights and iron railings repeat along the terraces the way they do on Canning Street, and Merrion Square keeps the same three and four storey height around a central garden. Dublin's front doors are painted in brighter colours and the fanlights are often taller, so a muted paint scheme reads closer to Liverpool. Try searching fanlights and iron railings now.
New Town in Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh's New Town has the same three and four storey Georgian terrace fronts from the 1810s to 1830s, with fanlights over the doors and iron railings along the pavement. The New Town is built in pale sandstone rather than brick, so a wide shot gives away the different colour and grain immediately. Try searching Georgian terrace with fanlights now.
Clifton's Georgian terraces and crescents share the same brick and stucco fronts and ironwork balconies as the Georgian Quarter, built across a similar 1780s to 1830s span. Royal York Crescent is the long unbroken run to look at first. Clifton's terraces sit on a steep hillside with wide Bristol Channel views behind them, which a tight street level frame has to crop out to hold the match. Try searching brick and stucco terraces now.
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