Pictures taken during the filming of hit romantic drama Poldark in Corsham will go on display at the Town Hall next Friday.

Last May the High Street was transformed into 18th century Cornwall, when the BBC took over the town to use it as one of several locations for the eight part period drama series.

To celebrate it hitting screens next Sunday, behind the scenes photographs of the filming will be exhibited at the Town Hall from March 6-31 on weekdays 9am-4.30pm.

It has been organised by Corsham Town Council, and sponsored by Corsham Print, and features official photos from Mammoth Screen Productions as well as a number of shots taken by local amateur photographers when the film crew came to town.

In April the exhibition will move to Corsham Tourist Information and Heritage Centre, in the High Street.

As part of the filming The Flemish Weaver pub was transformed into the Red Lion, landlady Becky Kingsford-Smith said it was an opportunity not to be missed.

She added: “We are all looking forward to seeing it on the TV, we are very proud to be part of it. The staff were great, the film crew were brilliant and the actors were very friendly.”

The show, based on the novels of Winston Graham, first aired on BBC One in 1975 and followed the tale of Cornish mine owner Ross Poldark’s return from the American War of Independence.

Actor Aidan Turner – star of BBC Three drama Being Human and dwarf Kili in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy – plays the lead role.

It is not the first time that Corsham’s historic, and unchanged, buildings have featured on screen. Scenes for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Lark Rise to Candleford and Tess of the D’Urbervilles were all filmed in and around the town, while the Oscar-winning film The Remains of the Day used Corsham Court as a location.