Frances Clegg now a mature woman, matriarch of the ever expanding Clegg clan would direct the family through the many crisis's endured by them. With the help of her fortune, the hard-nosed culture earned in her youth and her early life contacts, she had developed Beck End into a business large enough to employ the whole family and more. Billy an itinerant worker later to become a valued employee caused a rift when he fell for a newly appointed manager at a critical time in developing the company. This led to his departure, together with a disabled partner and the organisation of an international jazz festival, ended the farming life for Fran and her husband. With the next generation ready to take over it was the best time to bow out.