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

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

Lancashire 1842. Sixteen-year-old Bessie works long hours as a weaver in Blackburn helping to suppor..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..