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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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