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

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

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

1943. After the heartache of the previous year Connie Baxter now appears to have everything a girl c..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..

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

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

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..