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By JB Priestley. Not long after the end of WWI the Conway family gather for daughter Kay's 21st birthday. However, 19 years later the future is far from the one they imagined. Show more
On this day in 1917, an appeal was issued in the Times for women workers to help at YMCA recreation huts in France, and in North Shields, Iris Reed plans some entertainment. Show more
In the week in 1917 when a munitions factory explosion in Silvertown killed 73 workers, the after effects of the Marshalls explosion are still rippling through Tyneside. Show more