In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham. A..

1914. Evie Munro is a Scottish fisher girl working the herring season from Wick to Great Yarmouth. F..

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..

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

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

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

At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..

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

Manchester 1944. Alison is thriving in her rewarding role at the railways. But when family tragedy s..

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

Following a scandalous affair wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to R..

Rodney Prince a doctor who chose to work amongst the poor of Newcastle to the shame of his beautiful..

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

Ever since her mother died Martha Mary had had to take over the running of her home a sprawling mans..

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

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..

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

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

November 1942. Even during wartime the glitz and glamour of the ballroom shines through at Christmas..

March 1941. After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz she decides to le..

Deep in the wild fen country Rosamund Morley lived a cloistered poverty-stricken existence with her ..

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

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

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

1915. While World War One changes the country with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men bein..

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

When Cissie Brody was 15 fever swept the English countryside killing her parents and leaving her to ..

A small Welsh town hosts a lively and varied community - and none more so than Nelly Luke the cheerf..

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

Little Max is growing day by day and Joan is adjusting to her new life. But in her heart of hearts s..

It’s 1957 and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale H..

When Maisie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island she causes ..

When her father dies Abigail Newman is forced to leave her mother and the vicarage she was raised in..

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

The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolise defeat for Charli..

In the mid-1850s life for an orphan was grim as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died s..

1942. Determined to do her bit for the war effort Yorkshire lass Evie Sinclair leaves her island hom..

After the death of their parents sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whi..

With Mulberry Lane's favourite pub The Pig & Whistle undergoing renovation proprietors Peggy and Abl..

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..

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

Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..

Cambridgeshire - 1941_x000D_As the war rages on in Europe it brings untold heartache to the Talbot f..

Manchester 1942. When Cordelia's daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn't meet the approval..

Blackpool summer 1942._x000D_Meet the Ballroom Girls: Sylvia Pearl and Joy. Three girls dancing thro..

Living in Victorian Oxfordshire Poppy Woods has suffered neglect and cruelty from her very first bre..

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

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Wes..

The truth is Ella is hiding from a scandal. A scandal that drove her family out of their beloved Lan..

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..

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

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..

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

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

Orphaned Jenny and her chimney sweep brother Noah eke out life in a cellar dwelling in the heart of ..

Edward Jenkins dreams of opening a sports shop in the Welsh town of Pendragon Island. Then his ambit..

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

Cock Shield Farm 1881. After Molly Geary finds herself pregnant with landowner Angus McBain's child ..

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

Helen Bygrove is managing the hotel now that her husband has been conscripted. Against all expectati..

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

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

Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day..

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

Hucknall 1941. Female conscription looms and three women arrive at the Bell Works Factory to work on..

Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out. She is des..

August 1940As Autumn approaches Lady Joanna Harcourt is preparing for new guests at Goodwill House -..

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

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

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

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

Annabella LaGrange was the only child of a wealthy family owners of a glassworks in the North-East o..

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

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Kirby believes she's all alone in the world when her mother is killed in ..

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

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

Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..

Her name was Hannah Boyle but to the people of the village she would always be 'The Girl' - Matthew ..

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

Manchester 1940: the minute war was declared best friends Sally and Debs volunteered for the home gu..

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

Left homeless after the Exeter Blitz May must find a job if she's to put a roof over her head and he..

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

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..

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

Glasgow 1943. After becoming pregnant out of wedlock only to find out her betrothed was already marr..