Life has not always been easy for John
McKie. Born to a poor Scottish family
but consumed with ambition and dreams
of wealth, John left his remote village and
settled in Darlington, where he and his
wife Mary brought his ambition to life in
the form of The Emporium, a small
family department store.
Now, in 1912, the McKies finally seem
poised to achieve prosperity and security.
The Emporium, created by so much hon-
est hard work, is now the pride of Dar-
lington, and John and Mary s son Luke is
fulfilling the dreams of three generations
of McKies with his achievements as a
university man studying medicine.
But new challenges face the McKies:
John s niece Jane, an aspiring dancer,
struggles to assert her independence
against her strong-willed mother Char-
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