Stratford 1939: Britain is at war but on the home front keeping up morale and appearances go hand in..

Sunderland 1941Gloria is smitten with her newly arrived bundle of joy but baby Hope's first weeks ar..

Following a terrible storm seven-year-old Lottie is rescued from a shipwreck by local Cornishman Arn..

1957. Newly-wed Val Walker is looking forward to starting a family. Her best friend the previously f..

Charlotte is an only child reared by a brutal father who cannot forgive her for not being the son he..

Polly living in grinding poverty loses her mother in childbirth and finds herself alone on the stree..

1936. Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move from the c..

It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..

Laura Collins is struggling to make a good life for her daughters Tess and Tina. So when she is offe..

November 1915. For young housemaid Anwen Rhys life is hard in the Welsh mining village of Dorcalon. ..

Victoria Wild is only four years old but already knows about heartbreak having been abandoned by her..

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

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

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

1879: Shipwrecked off the west coast of Australia Louisa Reynolds is aided by an aboriginal girl and..

Dympna Byrne lives a simple life with her family on the Connemara coast. She adores her father Miche..

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

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

October 1942. Viola loves her new job away from the factory and hopes that her romance with the hand..

1949. To pursue her daughter’s destiny Fay must train in London and Peggy is faced with a dilemma ..

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

Stratford 1943. World War Two is still raging across Europe. But for the Lavender Girls the workers ..

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

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

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

Hull 1874. The beautiful Jewel Newmarch adopted as a baby turns heads wherever she goes - her exotic..

Cathie Kinrade is used to hardship. Growing up in a fishing community on the Isle of Man in the 1930..

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

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

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

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

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

Clara is forced to flee her home as the Nazis invade the beautiful island of Guernsey. Separated fro..

In the aftermath of the General Strike times are tough for coal miners and their families. When Call..

Thea's loathsome stepbrother is trying to trick her out of her inheritance of her parents' beautiful..

Grace and Dougie have been courting for years so when Dougie decides to emigrate to Australia he exp..

London 1913. The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their l..

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

Separated from each other soon after being taken from their mother Tilly by a travelling group of gy..

1915. Patrolling is the last thing on the minds of Women Police Service recruits Annie Maggie and Po..

Christmas Eve 1936. On a foggy December night a pregnant woman walks out in front of a trolley bus a..

1940 London. The Ten Bells Street girls best friends from childhood now find themselves surviving th..

As the drums of war begin to beat louder on the continent 17-year-old Jeannie McIver heads to the wi..

It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..

Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..

Ada Houston's life is shattered when her brother Frank goes missing following an accident at the doc..

Tilly has come a long way from the run-down tenements in which she grew up. She has a comfortable ho..

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

Wales 1908. Still grieving the tragic death of her father and deserted by her stepmother Nellie Rhia..

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

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

Jessica is grieving for her beloved father Jacob Kingdom a trawler owner fondly remembered by his cr..

In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..

Martha Packer is much loved by everyone in the village of Hillsbridge. As the landlady of The Three ..

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

1914. While their men fight in France at home in Britain women are finally seizing the opportunity t..

Sent to the workhouse as a child all Ella Hathaway can remember is a voice whispering `Dearie promis..

It's 1943 and Ireland has escaped the worst of the war raging in Europe but life is still hard. When..

On her deathbed Aileen's mother reveals a secret she has kept for eighteen years and pleads with her..

Laura Cannock is on the run suspected of killing her bullying husband and his family are out for rev..

London 1950Peggy Ronoscki is happily settling into life running her guesthouse on Mulberry Lane surr..

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

Her father is dead and her mother doesn't want her... When Babby's dad is killed in a senseless bar ..

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

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

Peace has finally been declared in the Far East but for those living at Beach View Boarding House th..

East Kent 1876. With doting parents and siblings she adores 16-year-old Rose Cheevers leads a conten..

A young family has to relocate from the countryside to Hull looking for work. They find somewhere to..

A mysterious key left by her murdered sister takes Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Betty Palmer on a j..

Bobbie Fraser Mary Holland and Jean Thornton are Atta Girls - part of the Air Transport Auxiliary te..

Evacuated to Lincolnshire from the East End Jenny Mercer is frightened of the wide open spaces and t..

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

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

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

Daniel has lived his whole life with his mother adoptive father and his stepbrothers and sister in a..

Hitler's war is reaching out to affect every member of the Neyler family. Val Neyler driving an ambu..

Almost a decade after being rescued from a shipwreck by a local Cornish family sixteen-year-old Lott..

Will Christmas bring an unexpected reunion? Frances O'Leary has always dreamed of being a dancer. Bu..

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Hull 1852. Matty has been the mother to her three younger sisters since their mother’s death ten y..

Judith is suddenly all alone in the world. Her husband Jack has left her - why she doesn't really kn..

Rosa grew up an orphan in a remote island East coast of Yorkshire. Taken in as a small child by the ..

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

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

1860. Harriet is trying to care for her ill mother and has just lost her job. The last thing she exp..

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