Season 7 - Episode 23

Highley is a village built along the banks of the River Severn in Shropshire. Previously a mining area — the collieries closed in 1969 — the village became a market town. In 1975, the population was small, around 3,000 residents. Among them were 17-year-old Lesley Whittle and her mother, Dorothy Walker… (Part 1 of 3).

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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.

Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton

Narration, editing, additional writing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.

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MUSIC: 

Falling by Alice In Winter 

Kindness by Outside The Sky 

Out Into Nothing by Stephen Keech 

Grave Parade by Bryant Lowry 

Tainted By Darkness by Cody Martin 

Reactor by Wicked Cinema 

Colony by Wicked Cinema 

The Edge by Caleb Etheridge 

Crooked Man by Wicked Cinema 

Path by Stephen Keech 

The Art Of Fortification by Hill 

Six Minutes of Peace by Stephen Keech 

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