Step into the world of Peaky Blinders and follow the rise of the Shelby family across Birmingham and the West Midlands. This three-day itinerary traces the story from the backstreets of Small Heath to grand estates and political power, visiting the real places that inspired the series along the way.

 

Day 1: Series 1 & 2

Just like Tommy Shelby you arrive in Birmingham, but over 100 years later, instead of setting up gambling dens and selling illegal guns you are here for a good time and to mirror (or as close as) the narrative structure of the show.
 

10:00: Birmingham Back to Backs (National Trust)

📍 50–54 Inge Street

Start your Tommy timeline with a visit to the Birmingham Back to Backs, the closest thing in Birmingham to the Shelby family home that Tommy would have returned to from WW1.

These preserved Victorian court houses capture the cramped, communal working-class life of Small Heath.

Book in advance - tours are guided and unmissable.

11:30: Lunch at The Old Crown

🍺 188 High Street, Deritend
Walk: 10 minutes

Dating back to 1368, The Old Crown is Birmingham’s oldest pub, tucked away in Deritend on the edge of Digbeth. Step inside for lunch and soak up the centuries of history - exactly the sort of place the Peaky Blinders might have raised a glass.

12:30: Time for a Tram

🚋 Stephenson Street
Walk: 15 minutes to Grand Central tram stop.

Hop on the West Midlands Metro to Wolverhampton Racecourse – if you’re lucky you might alight the new Peaky Blinders wrapped tram that was recently unveiled for the launch of the Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man film.

Board the West Midlands Metro toward: ➡️ Wolverhampton

Get off at: ➡️ Wolverhampton Station tram stop

Travel time: ~40-45 minutes.
Trams run roughly every 6-10 minutes.

Last Leg to the Racecourse

From the tram stop you have two options:

Taxi (recommended)
• 7 minutes
• £6-£8

OR

Bus + walk

Walk to Wolverhampton Bus Station (5 minutes) | Take Bus 32 toward Dunstall Park | Get off at Gorsebrook Road | Walk 10 minutes to the racecourse

13:30: Wolverhampton Racecourse

🏇 Gorsebrook Road

No Peaky Blinders itinerary is complete without a trip to the races. In Series 2, Tommy’s expansion beyond Small Heath begins on the racecourses, controlling the bookmakers and fixing the odds.

Wolverhampton Racecourse was already a well-established fixture on the racing calendar, and precisely the kind of venue the gang would have been looking to dominate.

Book your day out and have lunch here too

17:00: Return to Birmingham

From the Racecourse

Taxi back to Wolverhampton Station tram stop
(7–10 minutes).

Tram

Take the West Midlands Metro back toward Birmingham.

Best stop for hotels:

➡️ Bull Street tram stop

18:00: Hotel - Your Birmingham Base

🏨 Hotel du Vin Birmingham, 25 Church Street or
🏨 The Grand Hotel Birmingham, 1 Church Street

By the end of Series 2, the addresses have changed. The Shelbys have left the backstreets of Small Heath behind - there are tailored suits now, racehorses, and a seat at tables that would once have had them thrown out the door. Your accommodation should reflect that arc.

We recommend Hotel Du Vin or The Grand - both have the grandeur and glamour that defines the Shelby aesthetic at its peak. Tommy wouldn't have settled for anything less, and neither should you.  We also recommend you dine in your hotel tonight too - both options have exceptional offerings.

And both are conveniently placed for the Jewellery Quarter, where you’ll be heading to in the morning. Enjoy those plush beds, tomorrow’s itinerary starts early…

Day 2: Series 3 & 4

Tommy is now an MP and trying to go straight(er), moving in aristocratic circles. The series ends with the entire Shelby family arrested overnight. In Series 4 New York Mafia boss Luca Changretta arrives with a vendetta, picking off Shelbys one by one.

9:00: The Jewellery Quarter: Museum Mania

Walk: 20 minutes, Walking between museums: 3–10 minutes each.
💎 Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, 75–80 Vyse Street
✒️ Pen Museum, The Argent Centre, 60 Frederick Street
⚰️ Coffin Works Museum, 13–15 Fleet Street

The Shelbys' push into legitimate business mirrors the Quarter's own history of craft, wealth and respectability. Three museums tell that story perfectly (You have 3 ½ hrs, however, we’d suggest maybe picking two out of the three if you want a more leisurely pace):

Museum of the Jewellery Quarter is a working jewellery factory preserved exactly as it was the day it closed, tools still on the benches, dust still in the air.

The craftsmen who worked these floors built real wealth through skill and generations of graft; the kind of respectable, legitimate business Tommy was desperately trying to construct as a cover for everything underneath it in Series 3.

Guided tours are essential - book ahead. Open Thursday to Saturday only.

By Series 3 the pen is as dangerous as the gun. Tommy signs contracts, land deeds and political papers. Birmingham once produced three quarters of the world’s pen nibs, making the Pen Museum a fascinating stop when exploring the city’s industrial past – it’s a small, extraordinary museum.

The Coffin Works Museum - Newman Brothers made the coffin furniture - the brass handles, the nameplates, the fittings for some of history's most significant funerals, including Churchill and Princess Diana.

The factory closed in 1998 and was left entirely untouched - a complete Victorian and Edwardian manufacturing time capsule, frozen mid-shift. In the world of Series 4, where Luca Changretta is methodically working through a hit list and Shelbys are being buried one by one, given how many funerals appear in Series 4, the setting feels especially fitting.

Guided tours only - book in advance.

12:45: Lunch at La Bellezza

🍝 Paradise Square
Walk : 10-15 minutes

With the prevalence of Shelby rivals the Changrettas in Seasons 3 & 4 it would be remiss to not acknowledge this with a fantastic Italian at La Bellezza in Paradise Square – Definitely a place the affluent Shelbys would now frequent.
 

Tip your cap to Birmingham’s Council house as you walk past - Tommy is now a Labour MP for Small Heath.

14:00: West Midlands Police Museum

🚓 40 Steelhouse Lane
Walk: 12 minutes

Remember when the entire Peaky Blinder’s gang were arrested at end of series 3? That’s why next we’re off to….

The West Midlands Police Museum is housed inside the Steelhouse Lane Lock-Up - a Grade II listed Victorian cell block built in 1891 and operational as a working police station until 2016.

That's 125 years of Birmingham's criminals passing through these doors, and the real Peaky Blinders were among the first of them.

16:30: Suit Up Like a Shelby

Freshen up at your hotel as like Tommy you’re going up in the world – literally…
Walk: 7-8 minutes for each accommodation

18:00: Dinner at 24 Stories

🍽️ 103 Colmore Row
Walk: 7 minutes

In almost every series of Peaky Blinders Tommy stands at a window - or on a ridge and looks out over everything he controls.

At 24 Stories you can survey your Birmingham empire with a 360-degree view. This is Birmingham's highest restaurant, from here, Birmingham spreads out beneath you - canals, cranes and the city skyline. It’s the kind of view Tommy Shelby would appreciate.

Day 3: Series 5 & 6

As a Peaky fan you know things are getting rather sinister as Tommy is drawn deeper into politics, but don’t worry, we’ll keep this itinerary light.

10:00: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

🏛️ Chamberlain Square
Walk: 6 minutes

When Tommy rises into politics and high society, the show shifts aesthetic. Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery captures this world, with its grand Victorian interiors, terracotta halls and Pre-Raphaelite collection. It’s free entry and there are centuries of art, industry, civic pride and history under one roof. 

11:30: Birmingham Town Hall

🏛️ Chamberlain Square
Walk: 1 minute, it’s right there (look left)

On your way out of BMAG take in the splendour of Birmingham Town Hall - Built in 1834 and modelled on a Roman temple, it has staged its most important public performances. Political speeches and civic announcements.

12:00 Lunch: The Mailbox Birmingham

🛍️ Royal Mail Street
Walk: 12 minutes

A short stroll from Gas Street Basin sits The Mailbox - Birmingham's most upmarket retail and dining destination, housed in a beautifully converted former Royal Mail sorting facility.

By Series 3 the Shelbys are no longer shopping in Small Heath markets. They are buying tailored suits, expensive whisky and fine jewellery. The Mailbox is where that version of the Shelby aesthetic lives in modern Birmingham - Harvey Nichols and exceptional restaurants.

Use the afternoon to explore, have a coffee, and let the transition from the canal basin to this world mirror Tommy's own trajectory across the series. Then return for dinner - The Mailbox has some of Birmingham's best restaurants.

14:00: Aston Hall

🏛️ Trinity Road
 

Option 1: Taxi (recommended)

• 12 minutes
• £10–£12

Option 2: Train + walk

Walk to Birmingham New Street station (8 min) | Take a train toward Walsall | Get off at Aston railway station (7 minutes) | Walk 12 minutes to Aston Hall.

At the beginning of Series 3, Tommy Shelby moves his family into Arrow House - a grand Warwickshire country estate that represents everything he has clawed his way toward. In Season 6 he blows it up.

End your day and your narrative arc adventure at Aston Hall - a magnificent Jacobean mansion built between 1618 and 1635. Sitting just two miles from Birmingham city centre, it feels worlds away from the surrounding industrial streets.

Its grand rooms and sweeping staircase make it easy to imagine the kind of country estate Tommy Shelby aspired to when he moved the family to Arrow House.

Open seasonally - check birminghammuseums.org.uk for opening times before visiting. Free entry.

And now, as the itinerary draws to a close just like Tommy you are going to have to let go and face the fact that you are leaving it all behind - the West Midlands that is. However, we wouldn’t recommend on horseback - the A38 is unforgiving and the M6 shows no mercy to anyone in a flat cap and waistcoat.

Here are your options…
 


A few practical notes: The Back to Backs require advance booking and have limited opening hours, so plan around those first. The Black Country Living Museum is closed Monday and Tuesday. The Police Museum is also closed Sunday and Monday. Build your dates around these constraints and you'll have a seamless trip.