We take a look at where the popular BBC show The Great British Sewing Bee is filmed
The popular BBC show The Great British Sewing Bee is filmed at Sunny Bank Mills, a famous 19th-century woollen mill located just outside of Leeds in Farsley, West Yorkshire.
The series moved here in 2022 – it had previously been filmed in The Chainstore on Trinity Buoy, London, where the BBC’s Dragon’s Den is filmed.
At the time of the move, Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant said: “Leeds is at the heart of the wool and textile industry so it feels appropriate to film in a great big spinning mill.”
The mill’s brick industrial interiors and large windows provide a great backdrop to the contestants’ colourful creations.
The first series of The Great British Sewing Bee took place in 2013, as a spin-off idea from the equally popular Great British Bake Off.
Sunny Bank Mills is no stranger to filming, as it also been used as a filming location for Emmerdale and Heartbeat.
When was Sunny Bank Mills built?
Sunny Bank Mills owes its existence to a group of local clothiers, who, in 1829, united to buy land and build their own mill. It remained a textile mill until 2008.
Today the mill is home to a variety of businesses including an art gallery and, rather appropriately, a sewing school.
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