Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

'Any rag and bone!' Everyone recognises the cry of Meg Sutcliffe as she plies her trade along the ba..

?She's not worth more than tuppence that child!? Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe. She..

When her mother dies in childbirth Pearl Edwards is left in the care of her aunt Annie Grafton. Anni..

When a newborn baby girl is found abandoned with nothing but a scarlet ribbon tied to her basket Ava..

Seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works long hours at Grange Paper Works with her younger sister Bea. Wh..

Liverpool 1939. Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However behind closed doors she li..

Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..

Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black..

Between work and home life there's plenty to keep Flo occupied. Not least new deputy store manager H..

But there is more tragedy still to come and Flo and her friends will need each other more than ever ..

When Pearl?s grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly she and her family - mother Diana sister Lucy - retu..