Vera Day

1955. Bob Grove, a builder, has problems with the local council over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son obtains the materials through a local crook. When the council discovers this, they call in the police and the Grove family get together to clear themselves in time for the grand opening.

In an attempt to mollify his uncle and keep his boxing career under wraps, Dickie Dreadnought decides to masquerade as a man of the cloth.

While investigating the execution of an infamous serial killer hanged in the 1930s, a researcher starts to seem newly possessed by the dead murderer.

A 25-year-old is prevented from graduating, so his school headmaster can live off and bet with the money that the student’s uncle left in his will.

A bumbling gang of British racketeers devises an ingenious extortion plot against a wealthy businessman.

A group of young women work together at a department store and share residence in a hostel while surviving the ups and downs of life in the 1950s.