June 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazin..

Deep in the wild fen country Rosamund Morley lived a cloistered poverty-stricken existence with her ..

Janet and Hywel Griffiths dream of seeing their son Frank happily married but Mair the daughter of t..

Still grieving the death of her watchman husband in a terrorist attack during the Outrages factory w..

Motherhood is every woman's right and the natural outcome of a happy marriage. But what then when a ..

Christmas time is fast approaching at Mary Vale and newcomer Libby is ready to start a fresh chapter..

Hucknall 1941. Female conscription looms and three women arrive at the Bell Works Factory to work on..

Ever since her mother died Martha Mary had had to take over the running of her home a sprawling mans..

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Kirby believes she's all alone in the world when her mother is killed in ..

March 1941. After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz she decides to le..

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..

After the death of their parents sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whi..

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

Liverpool 1941. After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool she is m..

Sep McGilby always said that Emily Kennedy had a happy face. And at 16 Emily had a lot to be glad ab..

When the parish guardians send Lydia daughter of convict James Knowles to apprentice in the cotton m..

Edward Jenkins dreams of opening a sports shop in the Welsh town of Pendragon Island. Then his ambit..

August 1940As Autumn approaches Lady Joanna Harcourt is preparing for new guests at Goodwill House -..

When Thomas Grant - one of the most eligible young men in London - proposes to Annabel Seaton she ca..

Left homeless after the Exeter Blitz May must find a job if she's to put a roof over her head and he..

Orphaned Jenny and her chimney sweep brother Noah eke out life in a cellar dwelling in the heart of ..

The South Wales village of Hen Carw Parc is a haven of rural peace. But times are changing and altho..

Blackpool 1922. Martha and Trisha may have escaped poverty but their fortunes have yet to turn. Blis..

January 1941 As the residents of Goodwill House feel the hard bite of winter land girl Charlie Somit..

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..

Fiercely independent Marguerite Sinclair has the opportunity of a lifetime to become a nurse and con..

When Maisie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island she causes ..

Clemmie throws herself into volunteering with the very organisation who helped her and her sisters w..

Born into poverty and hardship Ruby Skinner's decision to approach the unscrupulous East End villain..

Blackpool summer 1942._x000D_Meet the Ballroom Girls: Sylvia Pearl and Joy. Three girls dancing thro..

Blackpool 1918. _x000D_Martha is 17 and alone in the world. Of Irish decent her flashing green eyes..

July 1941 As the war grinds on Lady Joanna Harcourt knows that her time at Goodwill House is drawing..

Despite being part of the large O'Donnell family Milly has felt alone in the world since her father ..

1916. East London. When 16-year-old Clover Cooper's mother Iris calls her home from work one day the..

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..

England 1940. District Nurse Annie Russell and her mother are listening anxiously to the local boys ..

Clydebank 1911. Ellen works at the Sewing Machine factory. So does her sister Bridget Bridget's fian..

September 1940_x000D__x000D_With harvest approaching land girl Daphne is busier than ever as she plo..

November 1942. Even during wartime the glitz and glamour of the ballroom shines through at Christmas..

Rodney Prince a doctor who chose to work amongst the poor of Newcastle to the shame of his beautiful..

Sheffield 1867. It's the height of a long-running and violent campaign known as the Outrages where m..

As 1954 draws to an end the village of Hen Carw Parc is changing. The post-war boom brings a creepin..

Cambridgeshire - 1941_x000D_As the war rages on in Europe it brings untold heartache to the Talbot f..

Little Max is growing day by day and Joan is adjusting to her new life. But in her heart of hearts s..

Summer 1953. The sun is shining on Little Green Street the bunting is being brought out and Britain ..

Cock Shield Farm 1881. After Molly Geary finds herself pregnant with landowner Angus McBain's child ..

Cleethorpes - 1940. As the new year dawns the show at the Empire comes to an end and it's time for t..

Hull 1856. James Ripley and his wife Moira have always looked out for the poor of Hull. When during ..

England 1913. Eighteen-year-old Rose Strong has loved childhood friend Michael Redfern for as long a..

It has finally happened! The war is over and Europe rejoices. May 1945 - VE Day. After battling agai..

Pendragon Island is the perfect place for holidays with a stretch of clean golden sand and a gloriou..

Manchester 1942. When Cordelia's daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn't meet the approval..

August 1940. The war is raging in Europe but on the home front conflict still seems far away. Dot li..

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

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

Now that her brood had left the nest Fanny McBride a large cheerful and indomitable Tyneside widow h..

When Cissie Brody was 15 fever swept the English countryside killing her parents and leaving her to ..

The eldest of three children Kate helps her mother run the Devlin plait-school. They supply the mate..

Cockney born Nelly Luke is an essential part of the community. Yet not even Nelly with her shrewd ey..

Living in Victorian Oxfordshire Poppy Woods has suffered neglect and cruelty from her very first bre..

'See that patch of blue sky' he said. 'Whenever you see one that's where I'll be - thinking of you.'..

Annabella LaGrange was the only child of a wealthy family owners of a glassworks in the North-East o..

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

1914. Evie Munro is a Scottish fisher girl working the herring season from Wick to Great Yarmouth. F..

1922. After the horrors of the Great War the close-knit Truscott family returns to everyday life on ..

Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..

Following a scandalous affair wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to R..

Naomi is fighting to free herself from Alexander Harrington who married her for her money and kept a..

Growing up without the care of a loving family made Anna Golding fiercely independent. So when war b..

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

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..

A small Welsh town hosts a lively and varied community - and none more so than Nelly Luke the cheerf..

Manchester 1943. Emily is enjoying her new job as a station porter until she learns that a trusted f..

Kent 1953. The Woolworths Erith store a beloved cornerstone of the community faces closure if the De..

London Spring 1920. Harpers is beginning to flourish once more after the end of the war but for Sall..

1912. Fifteen-year-old Kate Truscott leaves her small Hampshire village to become a nursemaid to fiv..

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..

When her father dies Abigail Newman is forced to leave her mother and the vicarage she was raised in..

Kate has always found life on Brimbles Farm difficult but she is struggling more than ever to find t..

Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out. She is des..

Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day..

Someone had once told Emma Molinero the daughter of an itinerant carnival performer that she was mad..

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

The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful wild Northumbrian coast. But ..

If you're born with nothing you have to make your own luck. When Jared Johnson first meets Clarice C..

Monica Eustace and Joan McDonald met as next-door-neighbours living in Mersey View in Liverpool. Tho..

Poachers and dealmakers the Griffiths family have always managed to scrape by on the edge of the law..