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The film was shot in and around Brafferton Arbor, a street on the Buttershaw Estate in Bradford, West Yorkshire, where Andrea Dunbar lived and worked.. The film was inspired [8] by so-called verbatim theatre, with audio recordings of Lorraine Dunbar and other family members, lip-synched by professional actors in set-designed environments.
Andrea Dunbar (22 May 1961 – 20 December 1990) was an English playwright. She wrote The Arbor (1980) and Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1982), an autobiographical drama about the sexual adventures of teenage girls living in a run-down part of Bradford, West Yorkshire.
Brafferton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brafferton and Helperby, in the former Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 257, increasing to 311 at the 2011 Census. [1] On 1 April 2019 the parish was merged with Helperby to form Brafferton and Helperby. [2]
Gavin and her family lived on the same street that Andrea and her family did, which is named Brafferton Arbor, in Buttershaw. Gavin would later go on to play Andrea in the 2010 film The Arbor, which was filmed on the same street. [10] Gavin was educated at Buttershaw High School. [10]
Reas grew up in a working class family on the Buttershaw council estate in Bradford. [1] He was born and lived with four siblings in a house on Brafferton Arbor (since demolished) and was mostly raised by his mother, who also worked at Baird Television Ltd. assembling televisions, [1] or as a cleaner. [2]
Brafferton and Helperby is a civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It contains 34 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England . Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
Brafferton and Helperby is a civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England.Up until 2019, both Brafferton and Helperby were in their own civil parishes, but a vote, and then later an order was convened, to amalgamate the two into one parish covering both villages.
Helperby Hall is a historic building in Brafferton and Helperby, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The manor house was originally built in 1709, and since 1816 it has been the home of the Milnes Coates family. In 1889, it was extensively altered, including changes to the facade, and a rear extension.