Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..

Summer 1953. The sun is shining on Little Green Street the bunting is being brought out and Britain ..

Manchester 1943. Emily is enjoying her new job as a station porter until she learns that a trusted f..

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..

August 1940. The war is raging in Europe but on the home front conflict still seems far away. Dot li..

Cleethorpes - 1940. As the new year dawns the show at the Empire comes to an end and it's time for t..

When the parish guardians send Lydia daughter of convict James Knowles to apprentice in the cotton m..

Lancashire 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name and a brave step towards a happier life. Sudde..

Motherhood is every woman's right and the natural outcome of a happy marriage. But what then when a ..

As 1954 draws to an end the village of Hen Carw Parc is changing. The post-war boom brings a creepin..

January 1941 As the residents of Goodwill House feel the hard bite of winter land girl Charlie Somit..

1912. Fifteen-year-old Kate Truscott leaves her small Hampshire village to become a nursemaid to fiv..

Clemmie throws herself into volunteering with the very organisation who helped her and her sisters w..

The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful wild Northumbrian coast. But ..

Pendragon Island is the perfect place for holidays with a stretch of clean golden sand and a gloriou..