It is 1942 and after a childhood of suffering in Birmingham Maryann Bartholomew has built a happy li..

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

D-Day 6 June 1944 was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation..

The three Bentley children are used to fending for themselves. Their widowed mother has been forced ..

Queenie Bonner is only two when she is taken from her large family in the slums to a big house in th..

For Olivia Harding the offer of employment at a small private school came as something of a godsend...

She was not going to exchange one dull life for another! Far from being broken hearted when her long..

It's 1950 and when Laura and Billy Hopkins return to Manchester from their honeymoon they're in seve..

It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher with only ten bob in hi..

It's December 1963 when Billy Hopkins and his wife Laura arrive home in Manchester after five years ..

Brenda Ashford is 91 years old and spent 62 years working as a Norland Nanny.Brenda began training a..

Four bystanders in the wrong place at the wrong time. Witnesses to the shocking shooting of a teenag..

A sunny Sunday afternoon a family barbecue and Naomi Baxter and her boyfriend Alex celebrate good ne..

In June 1837 the 18-year-old Victoria wakes up to find that she is Queen of the most powerful nation..

Charlotte Booth loves her father and the home they share which is set high up in the limestone escar..