Malachi's Cove

Clovelly donkey Alexander has been having time off from normal duties to star in a film being made on location by a London based company. After a fortnight at Trebarwith Strand, Cornwall, the unit moved into Clovelly on Saturday to continue work on ‘Malachi’s Cove’ which deals with a girl’s friendship with a donkey. Alexander is here seen with ‘Bay’, the daughter of his owner, Mrs R Creighton-Balfour, of Clovelly.

The famous village still has about a dozen donkeys, which are more than picturesque. A couple are regularly employed in carrying to the top of the picturesque cobbled main street the empties from the New Inn.

Gazette article dated 25 May 1973.