A black comedy from the 1940s to the 1960s. Charting the rise of two families who live in the specific area of Northern France known as Le Nord.
The Family Dubois, whose wealth and position has been aided by having no morals in the war are now the models of wealth and respectability.
The Family Millieux, a woman who never had any morals in the war, but did an awful lot for morale. Unfortunately, she never made any money!
These two families are thrown together by the chance meeting of their son and daughter and eventually the two families are brought together by their marriage. The Millieux family achieve financial respectability when Gabrielle Millieux the mother of the bride and with no respectability eventually finds the man of her dreams, a man with a large wallet!
It's 1936 and Major Hutchins is a man with his best days behind him. Is this his last chance or one he was waiting for? Seventy years on a room in Berlin is opened. Some secrets are destined never to be revealed.
Major Hutchins is tired with life. It is the 1930s his Great War is behind him and he is fast approaching middle age. Retired from the services and now eking out his days as a clerk in a shipping office, he is once more asked to serve his country. However, perhaps the secret he already holds is more dangerous than the mission he is sent on. When nothing is sure Hutchins befriends a young woman in danger whose philosophy is far different from his own. Kristian Schmidt enjoys life. After the reunification of Berlin, he has spent the last twenty years developing parts of the city. His latest acquisition will open up a secret buried for over 70 years and unravel a trail of deception which will lead Kristian and his companion on a journey half way round the world, one step ahead of those whose purpose is to silence the secret.
Sunderland - 1906. An accident leaves Jane to provide for her family. What will become of them, will she ever find love again?
It is 1906 and Jane is happily married to Albert Burns with four beautiful children. The Burns family have worked the river as Foy boatmen for generations. It is their livelihood, hard as it may be. Passed down from father to son. But with tragedy, comes a life she had never imagined, from the pits of despair to the hopes of a new life for them all. But choices have to be made. Does she take the security that she has longed for or the love that she never thought possible again. The dawn of 1911 - A new monarch and a new start. This is the year when she will summon all her strength, to preserve her family and life as well. Will her boys ever accept her choices.
Based on the West Stanley Colliery disaster of 1909.
Coming shortly - awaiting edit.
Harrisons Buildings
Life or religion can force a man to spend his life on his knees. Perhaps when you have seen too much of life it's the only place left.
For some, the Great War was their patriotic duty. To others, it is where you go when you want to escape life. For many returning was not what they wanted, they knew what awaited them, not perhaps the release which might have been given them on the Western Front. It was the realisation that they were destined for the same poverty and deprivation that they had left four years before. No hope of an armistice here, this war was on poverty, this attrition would last until you died. At least on the battlefield you didn't have your wife and children with you. Come and visit Joe, returning to a land fit for heroes. You never know, you may find not much has changed in one hundred years.
Sunderland to the Somme - He used to see Florrie in Church. She was an orphan. One day he would return for her.
Never Look North
London - The golden 1930's - Two men from different worlds thrown together by fate. Will their love for the same woman destroy them.
Luke Burns, knows what poverty is. He's had it served to him three times a day since he was born. Ryhope, in the North East of England is no place to be in 1929. Especially, for a child with no other family, than a wretched creature who calls herself his mother. On his fourteenth birthday he has a choice; the pit or the army. By seventeen, he has scraped through and is now posted to a Guards regiment in London. An act of kindness to a young officer, in his regiment, leads to a double life. One that he finds it hard to adjust to and accept, as an open door to a world of opulence is shown to him. The only thing which can destroy their friendship is the love they have for the same woman. As World War Two commences. Luke, finds himself back in England, drawn back to Cossington Hall. Will it be his deception which will destroy his friendship. Or will the truth out.