Theale featured in the film The
Borrowers. The Old Brewery (the Dairy in the film) was used during
the scenes when the two borrower children escape from their home.
When the filming company arrived in Theale, houses had their garage
doors painted and the house occupants needed to leave their homes
at 7.30am and were not to return until 6pm, presumably though they
were rewarded with some paper stuff for their troubles. Shops,
offices and pubs along the High Street had their signage changed
and were made to look olde worlde. Morris Minors were parked on
driveways, old style vehicles lined the High Street, it was
fascinating to watch and like being in a time warp driving along
the streets.
"The Borrowers are four-inch high "little
people" who live under the floorboards. When the owner of the house
they live in dies and evil realtor Ocious Potter wants to destroy
the house to build luxury apartments on its place, they start to
fight him with the help of the son of house owner,
Pete."
"The four-inch-tall Clock
family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family,
"borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps
of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when
evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the
house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The
Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being
exposed to the normal-sized world."
This cache can be found along a
public footpath which skirts the golf course.