Angelina was abandoned on the doorsteps of Brownlow Workhouse when she was just a baby. The only clu..

December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..

Norfolk 1940. As war rages on the residents of Great Plumstead are doing all they can to help the wa..

Cece is gifted a cottage in the Scottish Highlands. She doesn't want a cottage or to go to Scotland...

April 1942. New mother Alice Milwood is itching to return to her job as a shop assistant at Libertyâ..

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

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

1919 in Ashford-in-the-Water Derbyshire. Walter Ryan has returned home a broken man and so it falls ..

After the sudden and brutal breakdown of her marriage Jenny finds herself alone for the first time i..

February 1945. When April Green's father is killed by a bomb life without him is hard to bear. April..

Manchester 1942. A new year brings new hope for the railway girls. Alison's romance with Dr Maitland..

Liverpool 1917. When Irish seaman Michael Gallagher docks in Liverpool after years of fighting with ..

As if everyday life in London's slums wasn't hard enough for Jane Roberts and her three children the..

1940. As the bombs rain down on London a close-knit community struggles to survive. Working at the l..

Eleven-year-old Stella Barry is forced into service when her family find themselves living hand-to-m..