Mother Hubbard’s Cottage (1960)

Yealmpton, near Plymouth in Devon. Nice M/S of a large stone cottage with a rolling, sloping thatched roof; an elderly man walks across the foreground and there is a wooden sign at the left; C/U of sign reading ’Old Mother Hubbard’s Cottage / Hand Woven Tweeds / Ties, Scarves etc. / Handicrafts’. M/S of the sign as a middle aged man and woman, Bill Ruel and Phyliss (Phylis?) Barwick, walk into shot and look at an old spinning wheel. Commentator tells us that this is where Old Mother Hubbard once lived. They then turn and look at the cottage; C/U of the chimney, the thatched roof and a window at the end of the house, tilt up to show the chimney. Commentator says that Old Mother Hubbard “was a local housekeeper who (with her dog) was immortalised by the nursery rhyme written by Sarah Martin while staying at nearby Kitley in 1804. This is the cottage to which Mother Hubbard is supposed to have retired“. The man and woman, still outside, are now looking at various lengths of tweed fabric, made by Bi