Gallery: BBC period drama Gentleman Jack begins filming in Huddersfield

Suranne Jones and Sophie Rundle are among the stars of Gentleman Jack, which is set in the 1830s and tells the story of a wealthy Yorkshire woman who lived openly as a lesbian.

Anne Lister, who lived at Shibden Hall, near Halifax, had several same-sex relationships and wrote about them in special coded diaries which were hidden after her death and only re-discovered in the 1980s.

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Gentleman Jack - a reference to her nickname - tells the story of her romance with another upper-class woman who was her travelling companion when Anne died from complications caused by an infected insect bite in eastern Europe.

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Huddersfield’s Queen Street was transformed into a market scene from the late Georgian period at the weekend. Filming will take place at a number of locations in Yorkshire and in the Danish capital of Copenhagen.

Click on the link above to view photos of the shoot by Charlotte Graham.