Gilly Jenkins is the third generation to bake for her family firm. Also on Bread Street in the same ..

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

Sarah is lonely. Living in a small Yorkshire village with just her grandmother for company she longs..

1853. In the serene countryside of rural Yorkshire Caroline and Trixie's unbreakable bond forged ami..

The year of 1947 is almost upon them and the community of Cliffehaven is still reeling from the trag..

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

Having recently arrived in England abandoned by her father and brother Isabella is left to look afte..

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

When the Gallachers received an invitation from the Duke of Moorshire to attend an evening at Lea Ha..

When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..

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

The close loving family life Rose has known is shattered when the country goes to war. Rose resolves..

In the dead of night a young woman is found on the doorstep of the House of Help for Friendless Girl..

London 1942. Charlotte Fenimore is back home on a week's leave from the Women's Auxiliary Airforce. ..

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

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

London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..

Lancashire 1842. Sixteen-year-old Bessie works long hours as a weaver in Blackburn helping to suppor..

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

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

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

Australia 1853. Settled in the colony Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family an..

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

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

1850. Beatrix is just 18 when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Upon meeting her futu..

Olivia Brodie is a devoted parlourmaid serving the Broadbent family at Hawthorn Manor and spending p..

York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...

Ireland 1851. After enduring years of the devastating potato famine Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. To..

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

Bridget Kittrick headstrong and independent is ready to show her worth when she's left in charge of ..

Seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works long hours at Grange Paper Works with her younger sister Bea. Wh..

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

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

In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

For Renee Rushmore the arrival of war brings some much-needed freedom. Her father rules the house wi..

September 1942 Having done her duty as an ATS girl Lance Corporal Ruth Cox is moving on to new chall..

When orphaned Jake Harding is sent away from his adoptive home aged just seven he does not understan..

Feisty Irish gypsy girl Tamara Redmond is just sixteen when she overhears her parents planning her w..

Spring 1943. After a visit to see her mother in Sussex with Ned it's time for VAD nurse Evie Jones t..

Bristol 1939. School leaver Maisie Miles suspects her father a small-time crook has an ulterior moti..

After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Fin..

Throughout County Tipperary the three sisters were known as the Sisters O'Donnell. Together they mov..

Sunderland 1943. Helen would love to find the courage to tell the dashing Dr Parker of her true feel..

Kent 1814. Molly Dawson now a respectable married woman lives with her husband and three daughters o..

Margate 1884. When 17-year-old Hannah Bentley fled the family home she never dreamed she'd find her ..

Can she finally put herself first in order to find love? Peggy Cassidy is a milly working in the Bel..

Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had ..

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

His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns a..

It's 1941 and as the Second World War rages on girls from all over the country are signing up to the..

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..

Dover 1864. Violet Rayfield leads a happy life with her family in a beautiful terrace on Camden Cres..

In 1860’s Yorkshire a woman’s fortune belongs to her husband - regardless of a so-called-gentlem..

In A Wartime Christmas at Rookery House former cook Hettie Brown hears some shocking news making her..

Spring 1942. After a difficult few years with her husband Victor Prue's life is about to change in a..

Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..

It's late summer 1940 and Isla Donahue's idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father se..

When her feisty grandmama takes her travelling Prue is excited to explore outside of England. Determ..

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

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

When Olive receives a letter in the post from the father of her daughter - American soldier Joe - sh..

Livia Blake has lost her husband and faces a crossroads. Her friend suggests she would make an excel..

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

Seventeen-year-old Elise Bouchard has always called Northern France home. But when her English fathe..

In Battenbun Northumberland there live four Puddleton men - Grandpop Old Popo Pop and Peter. Three o..

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

Coming up 16 Tilly Trotter is different from the other girls in her village. Tall for her age and co..

Holderness 1988. Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about t..

Sarah Foster’s parents have been fighting a constant battle with poverty. When her father Will is ..

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

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

After escaping the grip of the workhouse Lily has kept her fiance's business afloat while he is away..

Norfolk 1944. Phylly is a Land Girl on Catchetts Farm. She and her friend Gracie are doing their bit..

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

London's East End 1940. A frightened young woman gives birth to a tiny baby. Clearly alone she refus..

Lincolnshire 1854. After much reflection Caroline Lawson has accepted Max Cavendish's marriage propo..

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

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

Jane Hadley has nothing to lose when she runs away to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Whatever..

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

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

London 1942: Flo Canning's heart is beyond repair following the news that she has been dreading sinc..

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

Summer 1942. Britain is in the depths of war and the Women's Land Army is hard at work looking after..

Agnes Cavanah has watched her mother Kitty struggle to put food on the table ever since they crossed..

Jenny starts her training as a nanny but does she have what it takes - and will her family survive w..