Where was the Garrison pub in Peaky Blinders filmed?

The Garrison pub in Peaky Blinders is not one visitor-ready Birmingham filming location. The fictional pub draws on Birmingham's Garrison Lane, but the screen version uses designed sets and location work elsewhere. For the Garrison pub filming location, separate the real-world inspiration, the interior set, and the street outside—and specify which season or film you mean.

Three places that often get mistaken for one

What a listing describes	What it establishes
The real Garrison Lane pub in Birmingham	A connection to the show's setting and inspiration, not proof that its interior was the filming set
The production's Garrison interior	A deliberately constructed and dressed screen environment
A Garrison Lane exterior location	The street seen in particular scenes; it need not occupy the same place as the interior

Visit Birmingham identifies the real pub as inspiration for the Shelbys' local. That is a useful historical connection, but it does not turn the existing building into the room where every dialogue scene was filmed. A screen location can combine several physical spaces through editing.

What the production evidence shows

For series five, production designer Nicole Northridge's own portfolio documents an initial Garrison sketch, a tavern model, construction photographs, dressing, and Garrison Lane location/build material. Those are unusually useful primary sources: they show how the environment was created rather than merely repeating a fan-tour address.

Cinematographer Si Bell's interview about series five describes studio filming in Manchester alongside location work in several northern English cities. He also explains the elaborate camera move through the Garrison in the opening episode. Taken together, the interview and design portfolio support a constructed-screen-pub explanation. They do not establish that one publicly accessible address accounts for all six seasons.

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The 2026 film is another production, not a reason to relabel every television-series location. Cinematographer George Steel's account of The Immortal Man specifically describes a soundstage-built Garrison interior. That evidence should stay attached to the film. A filming guide that silently substitutes the movie's set for a season-one answer is mixing different claims.

Is the Black Country Living Museum the Garrison?

The Black Country Living Museum is an established Peaky Blinders filming location and offers its own location information. However, a venue's appearance in the series is not evidence that its pub or every street on its grounds played the Garrison. Ask for the exact scene or production reference before treating those names as interchangeable.

This distinction matters if you are planning a visit. A genuine series location can still be worth seeing, but it should be described accurately. Use the museum's current visitor and filming information for access, rather than assuming that a scene filmed there means an interior set is permanently installed or open.

How to check a proposed address

1. Identify the season, episode, or film and whether you mean an interior or exterior.
2. Look for production-design material, a crew interview, or the location owner's statement.
3. Check whether the evidence names the Garrison specifically or only lists the venue as a general series location.
4. Confirm current public access directly before travelling.

Do not enter a studio, private property, or a closed building because it appears in a fan map. A historical pub, a temporary street dressing, and a controlled soundstage have different access arrangements. The safest concise answer is that the Garrison is a composite screen location, with documented set construction, not a single Birmingham pub you can assume served as the entire filming venue.

For the separate history question, our article on the real gang and the razor-blade story distinguishes period evidence from the drama. The pub's fictional use should be treated with the same care.

Sources and verification

Sources checked October 7, 2026.

• Nicole Northridge: Peaky Blinders 5 design portfolio
• British Cinematographer: Si Bell on Peaky Blinders 5
• British Cinematographer: George Steel on The Immortal Man
• Visit Birmingham: Birmingham: Peaky Blinders started here
• Black Country Living Museum: Filming and Photography