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Bluebell Blue — Jan Webster
The bunting is out, the bands are playing, the trains bringing in hordes of holiday-makers from the Potteries to join in Macclesfield's Barnabay Fair.
It's a special day for the town -- the Fair coincides with the opening of Henriette Orme's splendid new silk mill and the crowning of sixteen-year-old Ann MacGillivray as May Queen. Two men that day are entranced by the girl's grave and innocent beauty; one the charismatic young Methodist minister, Henriette's son, Piers; the other Barnaby Egerton, the charity boy who has lived on his wits since infancy. Maggie Davis the mill-hand watches from the sidelines, already caught up in her helpless love for Barnaby.
That evening, when the whole town goes to see the play at the Theatre Royal, the mysterious figure of the actress Mina Coe enters the story and nothing is ever the same again. The question of Ann's parentage becomes central to a love story that enfolds a whole era's attitude to morality and conscience, with tragic consequences for some.
It's a special day for the town -- the Fair coincides with the opening of Henriette Orme's splendid new silk mill and the crowning of sixteen-year-old Ann MacGillivray as May Queen. Two men that day are entranced by the girl's grave and innocent beauty; one the charismatic young Methodist minister, Henriette's son, Piers; the other Barnaby Egerton, the charity boy who has lived on his wits since infancy. Maggie Davis the mill-hand watches from the sidelines, already caught up in her helpless love for Barnaby.
That evening, when the whole town goes to see the play at the Theatre Royal, the mysterious figure of the actress Mina Coe enters the story and nothing is ever the same again. The question of Ann's parentage becomes central to a love story that enfolds a whole era's attitude to morality and conscience, with tragic consequences for some.
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