Roma Randall, lived in The Penelope, a converted canal boat with her family, who were puppeteers travelling the waterways of England.
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The Helping Hands was the nickname given to Coleford’s four friendly youngsters-Peter, Merry, John and Patsy Hands. They spent most of their spare time helping neighbours and friends in their home town.
Linda Crawford has a job looking after her impish 5 year old sister Mitsy, though she knows she’s good at heart.
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When Babs Thomson’s father was injured in a motor crash, Babs took over earning the family’s keep. Babs showed a great flair for business and quickly built up a thriving milk round in the Greville Housing Estate in the town of where she lived. Babs sold her milk round and started a more profitable business—general merchant to the Greville housewives.
Two orphan siblings, Ben and Penny, escape from the orphanage, only for Ben to be abducted by a Fagan-like criminal, the Director. Eventually Penny, with the help of shoeshines, street peddlers and others, manages to find Ben and the Director drowns in the canal. They all retire to the country and life happily ever after.
Penny Ward and Pippa Benson were cousins and both girls were adopted. Penny discovered that on the day of their adoption either parents could have taken either baby. Pippa had very wealthy parents and Penny resented Pippa’s good life. She began causing trouble for Pippa
Cathy Cooke was a girl with never a spare moment. Since her mother died, three years before, she had looked after the home, doing all the cleaning herself and taking care of her disabled father and her younger brothers and sisters. To help out the family’s meagre income, she /delivered papers and had to get up early every morning. To add to her busy schedule she had now entered a cooking contest Queen of Cooks. She was talented cook but one of the contest judges Miss Barker, was Cathy’s school cookery teacher, who hated her.
Orphan Mary Chalmers was to have sailed to Ireland to become a servant girl, while her brother, Eric, attended Ruborn Nautical School. Hearing sinister tales about the school, Mary got a job there instead under a false name, so she could investigate and look out for her brother.
When Eleanor and Victoria Brook-Thomson’s parents were killed in a car accident, the girl’s discovered they were penniless as the family home had to be sold to pay off debts. The girls were sent to live with Mrs Johnson, the family dressmaker. Victoria was very grateful but, Eleanor, her snobbish sister thought that living in such a place was beneath her. Unknown to Eleanor her biological mother was actually Mrs Johnson who had given her up to the Brook-Thomsons for a better life.
Madcap Fiona Bailey, who is under contract to an advertising company to play the part of Polly Pender in a series of commercials for Pender’s Pure Products, could lose the job immediately if she attracted in bad publicity. Penny, Fiona’s sister had the thankless job of trying to keep Fiona under control.