Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..

When Charity Browne arrives at The Fitzroy Hotel on her way to a country house party she knows there..

It was a wartime white wedding but it was not a love match. Annie Cooper married George McCabe for o..

1945 Sunderland. Ida Boulter makes the heart-wrenching decision to leave her five children behind as..

When Betty and her best friend Sally discover a baby tucked in a blanket amongst the rubble at the M..

When war is declared Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of H..

October 1941. Despite the hardships of life during wartime Bobby Bancroft has never been happier. En..

There were plenty around Fellburn who said Maggie Rowan was as plain as a pikestaff a woman consumed..

Liverpool 1848. Meg Shaw is the middle child of eight siblings not old enough to bring in a wage to ..

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..

When Kate Mitchell was offered the job of part-time secretary at Tor-Fret a lonely old house on the ..

Norfolk 1944. Phylly is a Land Girl on Catchetts Farm. She and her friend Gracie are doing their bit..

In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..

Lancashire 1929. Holcombe Hall's enigmatic owner has passed away and as the roaring 20s come to an e..

Agnes Cavanah has watched her mother Kitty struggle to put food on the table ever since they crossed..

Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had ..

Georgina Corrigan is dead! It must be true. It has been printed in the newspapers. How does one prov..

January 1945. Spring is in the air. And so is victory. . .Wedding bells are ringing at long last for..

London 1930s. Years after she first fled to South Shields Cathy is known by everyone as the landlady..

The Second World War is finally over when Lola Brown meets Harry Riggs at a dance. It is love at fir..

William and Emma Sinclair have settled into life at Moorend Farm in North Yorkshire and live happily..

Manchester December 1940. This winter the girls boarding at Star House - Betty Sally and Lorna - are..

Her wedding day should have been the happiest day of Mavis Kendricks' life. Marrying handsome Sam th..

1942. Working in the greengrocers and playing the piano in the pub isn't fulfilling 19-year-old Trix..

Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..

England 1940s. Minnie has spent most of her life feeling like a plain Jane watching things happen ar..

Surrey 1940. Overhead the Battle of Britain rages. Below at the Poppy Factory disabled WWI veterans ..

London 1929. Torn between the love of his family life in London and a deathbed promise to an America..

Tilly Trotter has devotedly served Mark Sopwith at Highfield Manor for twelve years. She is his wife..

When Olive receives a letter in the post from the father of her daughter - American soldier Joe - sh..

Cece is gifted a cottage in the Scottish Highlands. She doesn't want a cottage or to go to Scotland...

October 1940. When VAD nurse Evie narrowly escapes being killed in an air raid during the London Bli..

The Llewelyn family's livelihood largely depends on the ferry run by Siona Llewelyn the kindly yet r..

After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Fin..

When her grandmother dies Catherine Llewellyn finds herself alone in the world. Her inheritance is a..

London October 1940. Dot is finding her independence and takes a full-time role as an ARP warden. As..

England 1941. Dedicated local vet Laura cares for the farm animals of the little village of Bramble ..

1931 Cornwall. Gwenna Rosdew had no choice but to step up as head of the family after her father was..

Spring 1943. After a visit to see her mother in Sussex with Ned it's time for VAD nurse Evie Jones t..

England 1943. With Christmas days away the land girls of Gosling Farm are full of merriment. Only Lo..

Spring 1919. WW1 might be over but the inhabitants of Dorcalon in the Welsh Valleys still feel the p..

Georgina Corrigan is worried. The first women sent to her Percy Place home by the BOBs - an organisa..

Kent 1828. Lizzie Carey of Castle Bay is trapped in a life she never chose - endless days of cooking..

Tilly was first a rich man's mistress then a frontier wife and now a widow. With her two children ha..

Summer 1916. Despite the misery of war in the air some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge rem..

It's August 1917 and WW1 continues to take a toll. The villagers of Dorcalon try to keep hope alive;..

East London 1916. The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby..

York 1940. World War Two has arrived for the girls of the Rowntree's factory and with rationing crip..

High above the river stood the small terrace of miners' cottages known as Fenwick Houses. And here d..

To outsiders Dr Paul Higgins' life appeared to be happy and contented. Everyone had a good word for ..

Spring 1942. Lizzie is making plans for her wedding with fiance Bill. But preparations during wartim..

It is 1919 and Liverpool has been devastated by World War I. Sons husbands and fathers have been los..

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife a son friends but he was isolated from all the people ..

1952. With smog blanketing London little Grace is in trouble. Her grandmother is dangerously ill but..

London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..

July 1942. Newlywed Bobby Atherton has barely had time to experience married life with her airman hu..

1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..

Tammy and her mother Grace are desperate to escape Tammy's violent bully of a father. But when an un..

Liverpool 1942. As the threat of war draws closer Isla Donahue seeks solace in her sweetheart Rory. ..

In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..

His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns a..

Gosport 1943. Eadie Joy and Maureen are all doing their bit to help Britain win the war. Their work ..

Liverpool 1847. At 17 Delilah Shaw is the eldest of the eight Shaw siblings and the one who must tak..

October 1941. Marianne Fordham has a lot to cope with. As well as taking care of her young daughter ..

Olivia Brodie is a devoted parlourmaid serving the Broadbent family at Hawthorn Manor and spending p..

Spring 1942. After a difficult few years with her husband Victor Prue's life is about to change in a..

Chambermaid Fanny is thanking her lucky stars she has had a second chance at life. As an unmarried m..

Hetty Affleck is working as a maid at the prestigious Beach Hotel in Littlehampton. Her beau Lorcan ..

Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep along with a not..

The year of 1947 is almost upon them and the community of Cliffehaven is still reeling from the trag..

1853. In the serene countryside of rural Yorkshire Caroline and Trixie's unbreakable bond forged ami..

Jenny starts her training as a nanny but does she have what it takes - and will her family survive w..

It's been several years since Kitty Cavanah's life was turned upside down when her family made the p..

Sarah is lonely. Living in a small Yorkshire village with just her grandmother for company she longs..

London 1941. The war has robbed eight-year-old orphan Elsie of everything except her older brother J..

The Broadhursts were a mining family and to outsiders they appeared to be happy loyal and united. Bu..

1876. Life is happy for ten-year-old Rebecca Wheeler in the small fishing village of Leonard's Bay. ..

Nan Turpin is in trouble again accused of stealing. She's guilty. Cast out by her family she turns t..

Rowntree's Factory York 1935. The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on..

Sylvia Joy and Pearl are preparing to compete in a major national ballroom competition - not easy in..

In A Wartime Christmas at Rookery House former cook Hettie Brown hears some shocking news making her..