As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

As war finally draws to a close what will victory and peacetime bring for the south coast's Bluebird..

Eighteen-year-old Connie Baxter works as an usherette at the Criterion Picture House in Gosport. Her..

Meriel grows up in England a tomboy helping her beloved grandfather with DIY. At school she discover..

After a stray bomb destroyed his childhood home the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going is ..

March 1944 West London: It's been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain's..

A life of poverty in a cramped pit cottage is all that 17-year-old Ruby Dinsdale has known. Even wit..

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

Liverpool 1935. Monica Savage is delighted when the Copperfields move in next door and she quickly b..

1945. War is over and people are celebrating but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire Judith..

In the wake of World War Two the whole country is desperate for houses with very little money availa..

Germany 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport unsure that she'll ever see her parents agai..

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..

Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..