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Historic Birstall takes star role in Bronte classic.
From: Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England)
Date: 20080705
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IT'S already well known to lovers of the work of Charlotte Bronte.
Now Birstall's Oakwell Hall is set to play a starring role in a major television adaptation of Wuthering Heights, her sister Emily's classic tale of romance and revenge.
The Elizabethan manor house has been picked as one of the locations for the filming of the drama, which is being made for ITV by production company Mammoth Screen.
Oakwell Hall's first brush with fame came in 1849, when Charlotte Bronte used it as the basis for a house called Fieldhead in her novel Shirley.
The historic building ...
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