Aaron Brown

A village cricket team plays its last match before most of its players go off to fight in World War I, confident that "it will all be over by Christmas".

There's big money in pigeon racing if you've got a fast flyer, and Joe Desmond's blue-pied hen is a natural winner. But Joe's lucky streak with the birds has gone on a bit too long for the comfort of his competitors. It's time someone else had a turn. Mal Middleton's comedy was filmed on location in his home town of Sheffield.

Teenager Sandy Shelton and her younger brother George come of age at their parents' guest house in Blackpool.