Sophie McShera

Shane Meadows’ The Gallows Pole gets trailer and release date

David Hartley stood with an animal skull scarecrow behind him

Based on the book of the same name by Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole tells the true story of the Cragg Vale Coiners, the 18th Century fraud gang who constructed the biggest counterfeit operation in British History.

The drama follows the gang of weavers and land workers who began to forge coins in order to keep their West Yorkshire community afloat, albeit capsizing the economy in the process.