Rover Makes Good (Children’s Film Foundation)
Date: 1952
Director: John Dooley
Production Company: Children's Film Foundation (CFF), Plymouth Films
Stars: Felicity Alway, Malcolm Doney, Francis Lunt, Jean A'Beckett, Will Northmore
Location(s): Cornwall
Region(s): South West
Storyline:
While on holiday in Cornwall, two children are rescued by a rascally sheepdog when they become trapped in derelict tin mine.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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A branch line train brings Tony and Shelia to the countryside for the holidays. Luckett station at Monkscross to the north-east of Callington in Cornwall.
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Uncle Jim approaches the station to meet his nephew and niece. Looking towards Monkscross Methodist church from the bridge over the railway at Luckett station.
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Passengers alight from the train when it comes to a stand at the platform. Luckett station stood on the Callington branch from Bere Alston and closed in 1966.
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Tony (Malcolm Doney) and Sheila (Felicity Alway) wave to their Uncle as they reach the road. There's now no sign of the gateway on the road between the station and Monkscross.
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Uncle Jim drives the youngsters from the station.
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A bend is taken as the car approaches Uncle Jim's farm.
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The shot pans right to centre on farm buildings.
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Aunt Jennie watches from a window as Uncle Jim opens the back of the Morris Ten Estate to let Tony and Sheila out.
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After a lavish tea, Uncle Jim takes the children onto the farm.
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Jim and his dog make their way to round up a flock of sheep.
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While Jim heads to the fields, Tony and Sheila begin to explore.
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The children find Rover tethered in a barn before Aunt Jennie explains that the dog is troublesome.
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Later, Tony and Sheila take a picnic and set off from the farm.
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Wondering what the distant ruins are, Tony takes a drink before the pair make their way to find out. In the background stand the ruins of Hingston Down Consols, a copper, tin, arsenic and wolfram mine near Gunnislake in Cornwall.
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Packing up their picnic, Tony and Sheila run towards the derelict workings. The disused Hingston Down Mine near Gunnislake with the pumping engine house of Baily's Shaft to the left.