Heart of a Coster

Date: 1915
Director: Unknown
Production Company: AAA

Stars: Blanche Forsythe
Location(s): London

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Storyline:

Tensions rise between two brothers as they vie for the heart of the same woman.

Additional Information:

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Hard working costermonger Seth arrives home to find his drunken brother Joe about to hit their Mother after taking money from her. This appears to be numbers 28 to 36 Baker's Lane, Ealing W5.

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Joe makes his way to the pub. The Queen Victoria public house at the corner of The Grove and Ealing Green in W5.

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Carrying flowers, Seth calls on Sal Griggs, the belle of Parkins Rents, to find that his brother is already courting her.

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Joe and Sal get married on Easter Monday. St. Mary's Girl's School on Ealing Green in Ealing.

Antony Blair returned to the location . . . . 111 years on.

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Bride, Groom and their Guests head for the nuptial celebration. St. Mary's Girl's School on Ealing Green, which can also be seen in 'The Lure of Drink' made the same year.

Built in 1861, Antony Blair explains that the premises are now in use as a Kingdom Hall for Jehovah's Witnesses.

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The former Sal Griggs (Blanche Forsythe) stands holding her Husband as Friends and Family dance and drink. Outside the Queen Victoria at the junction of High Street, The Grove and Ealing Green in W5 identified on the late Roland-François Lack's website the Cine Tourist.

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A year later, Seth confronts Joe who has begun to mistreat his Wife. The Queen Victoria at the corner of The Grove and Ealing Green. The premises feature in 'The Lure of Drink' and the rebuilt pub makes an appearance in 'Hue and Cry'.

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Seth visits Parkins Rents to see his Nephew. Facing north from outside number 31 Baker's Lane, near a corner seen in 'Looking on the Bright Side'.

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Joe falls in with a Crook who persuades him to carry out a burglary.

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With his day's work over, Seth leads his donkey back to the stable.

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Fleeing from the police, Joe runs towards the stable. Also featured in 'The Ladykillers', this is Baker's Lane at the corner of Oak Street in Ealing W5 found by Francis Bowdery who adds that the streets were cleared about 1980 and replaced by the Ealing Broadway Centre.

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Unfortunately that's all folks . . . . only the first reel survives.