An extra on BBC This Town has opened up about life behind the scenes on the Birmingham based drama. But one of his standout memories was an apt 'Brummie gift bag' handed out to everyone as the show's wrap present.
Pete Chambers, who works at Coventry Music Museum, was an avid Two-Tone fan at the height of the movement in the early 1980s. He described how he got to relive his youth in the strangest of ways on set for the new Steven Knight drama.
After helping costume designers for the 1980s themed show in the early stages of their work, Pete got the offer to come along for filming as a cameo. As an expert in the Two-Tone scene, which started out in Coventry with bands like The Specials, Pete was asked if he wanted to get a shot at fame.
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"Mark Almond, the assistant costume designer contacted me to do it," said Pete. "He knew about the museum and brought his team over to check the clothing from the time. We got all the suits out.
"Many of the cast and crew visited the museum prior to filming to make sure the clothes and skinhead style was right, so I even got to see some of the cast before they were announced.
"It was great to get a cameo in the show and I was allowed to bring someone with me so I took another museum volunteer, Mark Harrison. We recorded a bar scene set in the Happy Trooper pub that was in Chelmsley Wood before it was knocked down, but we filmed it at a place in West Bromwich.
"I turned up and it had been fully recreated and it was strange to be sitting there in it at the bar for Episode Three."
Pete can be seen in a black and white check jumper and jacket drinking beer in the programme that charts the making of a band among friends and family in 1981 across Birmingham and Coventry. Poet Dante Williams is at the forefront of the drama that includes Birmingham City FC's Zulu Warriors, IRA bomb threats and racism.
"I was part of that Two-Tone scene back in the day and got excited about playing Rudeboys, but when I was sat there filming, I realised we were just two old men now sat at the bar.
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"We were pretending to be the old time skins who had seen and done it all, watching all the young dudes getting on with it. Even the bottle of beer we had were actually water.
"We are only on screen for probably a few seconds, but to be part of this is wonderful. Then at the end, everyone got a wrap gift in a tote bag.
"It was great as it had an amazing Brummie theme so it had things like a mug for Bird's Custard that used to be in Digbeth and teabags from Birmingham, Bournville chocolate and a record from the show.
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"After that, it was waiting for the show to go out before we could say anything."
Coventry Music Museum has exhibitions on Two-Tone music, clothes, trends and a special feature connected to This Town where the Happy Trooper pub is recreated along with a selection of items and costumes from the BBC show.
It also includes powerful accounts of racism at the time and how music helped change opinion. Visitors can even sit in the car The Specials used in their video for their 1981 chart-topping hit Ghost Town or behind the desk from their Rat Race video.
Coventry Music Museum can be found at 80 Walsgrave Road in Coventry. Use postcode CV2 4ED to find it. It is open Thursday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm, with last entry at 3.30pm, and on Sunday from 10am to 3pm with last entry at 2.30pm.
