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The boys are back on set - and so far filming of Peaky Blinders series four looks thrilling.

There has been plenty of action on location in Liverpool as cameras roll on the long-awaited next instalment in the drama set among Birmingham gangsters in the 1920s.

Cillian Murphy has been seen laughing along with Paul Anderson and Hary Kirton as his brothers Arthur and Finn Shelby, and Jordan Bolger as gang member Isiah.

And in action scenes he was spotted as Tommy Shelby running into a house wielding a handgun.

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Tom Hardy, who plays Alfie Solomons, has also been seen on set, as has Helen McCrory as Polly and Sophie Rundle as Ada Shelby.

And in new pictures, an Army truck and soldiers have moved on to the street where filming takes place in Toxteth.

Vintage cars, a gypsy caravan, horses and carts, and atmospheric smoke have all been introduced.

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And to help the period scene be set even further, there's even a chimney sweep walking down the road.

See our gallery here for 50 great pictures from the set.

Powis Street has been closed for filming and taken back in time by almost 100 years, with the yellow lines in the road obscured, old advertising hoardings put up and vintage cars driven to the set.

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The derelict houses on one of the area’s Welsh Streets have been regularly used by Peaky Blinders in the past to replicate the grim terraced homes of Small Heath where the Shelby family started their illegal empire.

Crew have also used houses on Rodney Street and Ringo Starr’s former home in Madryn Street.

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Filming is due to take four months, with the crew expected to come to the Midlands location of the Black Country Living Museum in May.

Although the drama is very much set in Birmingham, and Brummie creator Steven Knight promises it will always be a Birmingham story, most of it is filmed in Liverpool.

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Just a week at most is spent at the Dudley museum, whose canal, rolling mill, stables and blacksmith’s forge are used to recreate the scrap metal yard of Charlie Strong.

It’s where Tommy Shelby, played by Cillian Murphy, stores his illicit goods and uses the canals to transport them.

If filming goes to plan it should be followed by three months of editing and could be back on BBC2 as early as October this year.