By Emulating the Peaky Blinders gang isn't something you generally want to be doing. The backstabbing, the gunplay, the time added onto your journey by walking everywhere in slow motion: it all seems pretty exhausting.
However, you can now holiday like a Peaky Blinder. Hawthorn Bank, near the market town of Knutsford in Cheshire, is helpfully listed on the HomeAway website as "Arthur's House Peaky Blinders!" and was used as the location for the cottage Arthur Shelby scarpered to with Linda at the start of season 4.
"Your opportunity to stay in a Peaky Blinders set!" says the description. "Used as Arthur's house for the new yet to air series 4 [sic] (but renovated with modern creature comforts!) and in the charming Tatton Estate village of Rostherne right next to Tatton Park."
Knutsford is a very handy base for anyone looking for some respite from a particularly venomous and despised but well remunerated industry, being close to the edge of the so-called 'Golden Triangle' of towns and villages favoured by footballers for both Manchester football clubs. If Arthur were to venture a little further east toward Alderley Edge, Wilmslow and Prestbury, he could have ended up in a scrap for the last panettone in Waitrose with Ashley Young.
Then again, he might be minded to kick back with Hawthorn Bank's own in-house relaxation aids, as the advert promises: "Hot Tubs can be available from our suppliers, please ask us for a quote."
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