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

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

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

London 1912. Twins Lester and Lillia Holdsworth are destined for the stage. Lester is a brilliant pi..

As the war continues to keep her family far away Peggy Reilly must continue to look after her girls ..

Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful moth..

1856. Christine Banner is alone after her father's death. Determined to make her own way in the worl..

Rowan Sykes is overjoyed when her beloved older sister Laurel takes a new job and moves back home to..

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

When war broke out 17-year-old Christie could have stayed down on the family farm in Norfolk where s..

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

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

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

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

Barbara Roberts pretty mischievous and 17 has grown up wanting for nothing. But a long-buried family..