Home Fires ITV Filming Locations: TV drama series set in rural Cheshire during World War II
Where was Home Fires filmed?
Between September and December 2014, filming for the six-part ITV series took place in the small village of Bunbury, which is located in the North West English county of Cheshire. Bunbury also happens to be where the Home Fires storyline is set.
St Boniface Church in Bunbury – Photo by Tigerboy1966
According to Visit Cheshire, locations used to film Home Fires included:
St. Boniface Church on Vicarage Lane. A Grade I listed building, dating back to the 14th century.
The Nags Head is a 17th-century pub on Vicarage Lane.
RF Burrows & Sons butchers on Vicarage Lane, established in 1924.
The Village Chippy fish and chip shop on School Lane
Bunbury Village Hall on Vicarage Lane.
As you may have noticed from this list of filming locations, the Nags Head pub, St. Boniface Church, RF Burrows & Sons butchers and Bunbury Village Hall are all situated on Vicarage Lane. With the help of Google Street View, feel free to take a virtual tour of this area below. See how many of these featured buildings you can spot:
Judge for yourself how different or similar the village appears in the real world today, compared to what you see on TV.
Premiering in the UK on Sunday, the 3rd of May 2015, Home Fires is a six-part ITV drama series starring Francesca Annis as Joyce Cameron and Samantha Bond as Frances Barden.
Set in rural Cheshire, the story revolves around a group of women, for whom the Second World War hangs over them like a dark storm cloud. Despite their peaceful village appearing a world away from the ongoing battles, the ladies’ community proves far from immune to the effects of war.
Gradually becoming separated from their male family members, these inspirational women come together to form the Great Paxford Women’s Institute – working to maintain the country’s fabric during its darkest hour. Prior to being renamed Home Fires, this ITV series was originally to be titled Jambusters.
Cast of Home Fires: ITV drama series starring Francesca Annis, Samantha Bond, Ruth Gemmell, Mark Bonnar, Claire Rushbrook and Mark Bazeley
Set during World War Two in Cheshire, England, this new six-part television series follows a group of inspirational women known as the Great Paxford Women’s Institute.
Home Fires ITV Cast List
Character Name – Actor/Actress
Joyce Cameron – Francesca Annis (The Little House, Cranford, Jane Eyre, Wives and Daughters, Reckless, Dune, The Libertine)
Frances Barden – Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey, Outnumbered, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Fanny Hill, Distant Shores, The Murder Room, Donovan, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day)
Adam Collingborne – Mark Bonnar (Catastrophe, Casualty, Line of Duty, Shetland, The Paradise, Paradox, Psychoville)
Sarah Collingborne – Ruth Gemmell (Utopia, Inside Men, The Fades, EastEnders, Waking the Dead, Five Days, Blue Dove)
Pat Simms – Claire Rushbrook (Whitechapel, My Mad Fat Diary, The Mill, Mrs Biggs, The Fades, Great Expectations, Mutual Friends, Collision, Carrie & Barry, The Sins, Linda Green, Enid)
Bob Simms – Mark Bazeley (The Body Farm, Mistresses, The Time of Your Life, The Cazalets, Hearts and Bones, The Damned United, The Special Relationship)
Erica Campbell – Frances Grey (Shetland, Case Histories, Messiah, The Key, Reach for the Moon, Vanity Fair)
Will Campbell – Ed Stoppard (Cilla, The Musketeers, Upstairs Downstairs, The Politician’s Husband, Zen, Any Human Heart, Branded, The Pianist, Codebreaker)
Kate Campbell – Rachel Hurd-Wood (Tomorrow, When the War Began, Peter Pan, An American Haunting)
Laura Campbell – Leila Mimmack (Mayday, Frankie, Inside Men, Silent Witness, Becoming Human, Married Single Other, Son of God, Seamonsters)
Miriam Brindsley – Claire Price (Rebus, The Knock, Jump)
Bryn Brindsley – Daniel Ryan (Mount Pleasant, Candy Cabs, The Reckoning, Just William, The Whistleblowers, Sunshine, Steel River Blues, As Time Goes By, Bob & Rose, Linda Green)
David Brindsley – Will Attenborough (The Hollow Crown)
Steph Farrow – Clare Calbraith (The Shadow Line, Heartbeat, Vera, Downton Abbey, 55 Degrees North, Doctors, Coronation Street, Anna)
Stanley Farrow – Chris Coghill (EastEnders, The Driver, Who’ll Age Worst, The Royal, Shameless, Spike Island)
Little Stan Farrow – Brian Fletcher (The Passing Bells)
Alison Scotlock – Fenella Woolgar (Spies of Warsaw, Case Histories, Jekyll, He Knew He Was Right, The Way We Live Now, Mr Charity)
Teresa Fenchurch – Leanne Best (Ripper Street, Fortitude, Salting the Battlefield)
Spencer Wilson – Mike Noble (Grantchester, Mr Selfridge)
Claire Hillman – Daisy Badger
Thumbs – Jim Whelan (Blackpool)
Cookie – Jacqueline Pilton (Blackpool, The Royal, Jane Eyre, Wives and Daughters)
Isobel Reilly – Gillian Dean
Nick Lucas – Mark Umbers (Mistresses, Eternal Law, Princes in the Tower, Blackbeard, A Good Woman)
Jenny Marshall – Jodie Hamblet (My Mad Fat Diary, Shameless, Linda Green)
Jack Heaton – Adam Long (Happy Valley, The Passing Bells, Waterloo Road)
Richard Bowers – Philip McGinley (Drifters, No Offence, Game of Thrones, Coronation Street, The Gemma Factor, Almost Married)
Hazel Flintham – Nicola Sloane (Dancing on the Edge)
Nigel Hughes – Graeme Hawley (Coronation Street, Love & Marriage, Emmerdale, The Forsyte Saga)
Connie Ward – Rachael Elizabeth (The Children, Coronation Street)
Theo Driscoll – Paul Barnhill
Charlotte Bowers – Elizabeth Hopper (The Beat Beneath My Feet)
When does Home Fires start on ITV?
The air date and start time for episode 1 of Home Fires has been set for Sunday 3 May 2015, at 9:00pm on ITV. Before having its title changed to Home Fires, the show had originally been known as Jambusters.