The town was used as a filming location
for the hit BBC television series Playing The Field
"Once Upon A Time In The Midlands"
Shane
Meadow's film
"Once Upon A Time In The Midlands"
contains several scenes filmed in Ilkeston's 'Victoria Park'.
Shane is well known as one of the best independent british film directors
of recent times.
His other films include "Dead Man's Shoes", "Twenty four
seven", and "A Room For Romeo Brass"
