Something To Do With Seagulls

Working at Dudmaston Hall Henry Thomas Crowe - a young 19th.Century gamekeeper - discovers that his father Benjamin had been adopted. Benjamin's natural mother was Henry's great aunt who had had an affair with a captain in the British Army. Yet it is not until Henry is married with six children of his own that the truth about Benjamin's father begins to emerge. It is a story which intrigues Henry even though his brothers warned him no good would come of his meddling. Sadly (if not predictably) as Henry's life moves-on it becomes beset by misfortune after misfortune. But this is not Henry's fault nor anything to do with his family's past - and of course it has got nothing to do with seagulls. Even so someone has got to take responsibility if Mrs Crowe and the children are to be kept out of the workhouse.