Six families and their houses It is not only stately homes which are infused with family history, memories and traditions. More ordinary dwellings carry their own stories.

A miner's terraced house in Yorkshire.
'Living in Grimethorpe you can't ignore the pit.' Indeed the pithead towers over the terraced house where Lucy Mallinson brought up nine children. Only Lucy, son Slogger and daughter Joan live in the house now. Lucy wouldn't live anywhere else but Slogger hopes for a pools win. 'I'd buy a bungalow in Bridlington and have some fresh air. It'd do me fine, that'. Filmed just before the strike the six brother colliers give an insight into life in a coalmining community.