BOSSES at a museum that features in the Oscar-tipped movie The King’s Speech are hoping for an explosion of interest when it reopens next week.
A permanent exhibition, to appeal to trivial buffs, will also to be set up to document the film and television roles of Queen Street Mill.
The world’s last surviving steam-powered weaving mill was used as the location for the mill scenes in The King’s Speech, which tells the story of King George VI’s battle with a stammer and his relationship with his speech therapist.
The museum has been closed for the winter, but reopens on March 1 and manager Georgina Gates is hoping for a flood of interest.
She said: “We have had lots of phonecalls about when we are opening. Word is definitely getting out.
Fingers crossed we should see a marked improvement on last year’s figures.
”We will certainly be telling people where Colin Firth was standing during the filming.”
The 19th century mill has also featured in BBC1’s Life on Mars, period drama North and South, and a series on life in Victorian Britain.
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