Our Ede' is the family story of Alf Wagstaff, his wife Lib, their two sons Ike and Sam, and their daughter Ede. Set in the suburbs of Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire during the 1950/60s. Despite the war years when women did everything, Alf would like his daughter Ede to have a refined profession suitable for the lady he wishes his daughter to be. He wants her to go to secretarial college. Ede on the other hand has other ideas, she wants to break into a male domain and become a mechanic.