Love on the Dole
Date: 1941
Director: John Baxter
Production Company: British National Films
Stars: Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Mary Merrall, Geoffrey Hibbert
Location(s): Lancashire
Region(s): North
Storyline:
A story of life during the depression in the north of England.
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Only second unit or stock shots are seen in this production and this is a view of the mine where most of the menfolk living in the film's Hankey Park work. J. Copeland advises that Hanky, or Hankey, Park is not fictional and explains that it was an area of Pendleton in Salford with two up two down terraced streets that was cleared in the early 60s to be redeveloped as the high rise Salford Precinct. Walter Greenwood, the author of the novel on which the film is based, lived nearby in Langworthy, Salford.
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After winning a bet, Harry Hardcastle takes his girl on a holiday to Blackpool. This is Blackpool Central station on Central Drive which can also be seen in ‘Sing As We Go’, 'Here Comes the Sun', 'No Lady' and 1952s ‘Hindle Wakes’ while other parts the Lancashire seaside resort also features in ‘Forbidden’, 'Cotton Queen', 'They Met in the Dark', 'A Taste of Honey', 'The Cuckoo Patrol' and ‘Dick Barton Strikes Back’.
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As the depression continues, machinery at Marlows keeps breaking down.