Valley Saga again

Claire junior starts to win beauty contests, though Paul disapproves but it gives her mother an interest. By now, the twins are getting married, and busy with the scrap metal business... but Mary, the quiet shy eldest daughter, is in love with Patrick who is the son of Ikey Palfrey and a village girl, Hazel Potter.. and he has gone abroad to travel. Paul had reared him as his son when Ikey died in the war, but Patrick is aware that he might arouse resentment in Paul's own sons if he took a role in managing the estate. Times are hard, and Paul knows he's lucky to have a separate fortune, from industry, at a time when many estate owners are selling up and men are leaving the land. Then soon after young John's birth, Young Claire having won a beauty contest, is killed in a plane crash. Her mother turns to her baby, for comfort, and then Patrick comes back from Australia and asks Mary to marry him. Simon has met up with Rachel, the daughter of one of Paul's tenants, who was married briefly to a conscientous objector during the war. She has taken to left wing politics and Simon decides to make this his mission. Patrick and Mary get married and take one of the smaller farms, while Simon and Rachel work hard at left wing causes, until the Spanish civil war breaks out. This drives Simon to join the Reds and go to fight in Spain. He ends up in prison and is only rescued by the good offices of a Tory MP. He comes home and he and Rachel are at odds; she is a pacifist while he wants to fight fascism and go to war with Germany. When War breaks out in 1939 Paul has managed the estate well and hopes that there wont be such a loss of young men as there was in the First War. His twin sons decide to give up their business lives and join the RAF which pleases him. Simon also joins up. Paul joins the Home Guard, and turns to running the estate, so as to provide food...but some of the Potters get involved in the black Market. Then a bomb hits the Eveleigh farm, killing Simons' wife Rachel who has been living there. Andrew is flying planes in North Africa, and Margaret his wife turns to Stevie, Andrew's twin brother for consolation, as he has just split up with his wife. Margaret becomes pregnant and hides out in Wales, until Steve is killed flying. Andrew is badly wounded around the same time and is invalided out.