Waterloo Road filming in Sudden

Camera crews are back in Rochdale today (Monday 22 September) for the latest shoot of the BBC drama Waterloo Road. Trailers and crew members have based themselves at the Academy Dance Studio car park on Royle Road and are filming at various outdoor locations in the area, including the former Dunlop Mill near Tesco.

Filming for the new series has taken place across the town. The school that features in the programme is the former Hill Top School in Kirkholt and the cast have been based there since the school closed in 2005 and film crews for the first series began just a few days later.

Now filming for its fourth series former Coronation Street actress Denise Welch and ex-Men Behaving Badly and star of Bob the Builder, Neil Morrissey.

The 20 episode series will be aired later this year. The programmes are about a troubled comprehensive school and focus on its teachers and students, and confronts issues such as affairs, abortion, divorce and suicide.

Earlier this year the film crew for the latest series got a shock when they were confronted by police and members of Rochdale Council who believed they were illegal travellers when they pitched up at the Innes Centre in Spotland.