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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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