When tragedy strikes Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute fending for herself on the capital..

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

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

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

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

Bridget Kittrick headstrong and independent is ready to show her worth when she's left in charge of ..

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

Tilly was first a rich man's mistress then a frontier wife and now a widow. With her two children ha..

Yorkshire 1944. The end of the war feels close but Air Transport Auxiliary girls Bobbie Viv and Mary..

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

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..

Australia 1853. Settled in the colony Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family an..

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

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

Coming up 16 Tilly Trotter is different from the other girls in her village. Tall for her age and co..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tilly Trotter has devotedly served Mark Sopwith at Highfield Manor for twelve years. She is his wife..

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Wes..

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

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

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

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

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

Kenna arrives in Sydney to surprise her best friend shocked to hear she's going to marry a guy she's..

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

Ireland 1851. After enduring years of the devastating potato famine Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. To..

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

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

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

Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..

Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..

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

His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns a..

At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..

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

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

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

When Olive receives a letter in the post from the father of her daughter - American soldier Joe - sh..

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

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

London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..

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..

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

1943. Gloria is reunited with her sweetheart Jack. But her sons Bobby and Gordon are away with the N..

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

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

It's 1959 and eighteen-year-old Sophie is determined that now is the time for her real life to start..

Lancashire 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name and a brave step towards a happier life. Sudde..

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