Liverpool 1940. As the Luftwaffe turns its attention to Liverpool Shane Quinn decides to move his fa..

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

It wasn't a privileged childhood but it was a happy one. Sybil and Lizzie Cream brought up in a fish..

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

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..

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

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

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

It’s January 1955 and for the residents of Meadow Lane a small community of seven terraced houses ..

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..

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

January 1945 West London: Sylvia Simpson has become an invaluable member of the Marigold's crew - bu..