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The Shelby Home & Betting Shop is the home of the Shelby family and where the Peaky Blinders' gambling business is conducted. It is located on Watery Lane, in Small Heath, Birmingham.

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The Shelby home is on Watery Lane and also looks out on Montague Street. There’s a horseshoe nailed to the front door for luck. Through the front door is a hallway and a parlor decorated with brass and fancy floral crockery. The Shelby home is compact and a typical terrace style. There’s an excessive amount of brass and flowery ornamentation around the place. The Shelby family is cash rich but lacks what’s considered conventional good taste. The home is decorated like a gypsy caravan or a boatman’s barge with lots of roses, elephants, and castles. There’s a photograph of Arthur, Thomas, and John in Warwickshire Yeomanry uniform with a freshly dug trench behind them. Upstairs are the bedrooms. There’s a small kitchen with a coal fireplace, and a pantry which has been opened out to form a small back room. Instead of a wall, there’s a black curtain which covers the betting shop. Thomas' room has a bay window overlooking the street outside covered with net curtains. There's a plain bed, a bedside table, and a set of drawers.

Two entire terraced houses have been knocked through to form a single open-plan space with boarded up windows. It’s a fully functioning, although illegal, betting shop that’s almost always buzzing with activity. The large room is dominated by a huge blackboard where bets and odds are being maintained by two Runners. They each have a stepladder to reach the top of the board. The room is full of cigarette and cigar smoke. A large desk is in the room where men line up to lay bets. A small office is at the far end of the room, partitioned by glass and curtains. In the office is a photograph of the King, which dominates the wall.

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  • Filming of Watery Lane actually took place in Powis Street in Toxteth, Liverpool because it best resembles what Watery Lane would have looked like at the time.
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