Young Jeanette Walker often wonders what became of her mother who disappeared without trace during a..

In 1955 Scotland Road residents fear for their futures when government plans threaten to demolish th..

They're about to follow their dreams all the way back home... Sam Newby loves the rolling hills and ..

Edinburgh Yuletide 1743. Seconded back from the wars in Europe to captain the city’s Town Guard Ro..

At twenty-one Lily Knowles is desperate to leave home so she escapes to London to train as a nurse. ..

When her father dies Abigail Newman is forced to leave her mother and the vicarage she was raised in..

The day that Hilary and David have been waiting for has finally arrived and as the church bells ring..

Molly's life changes forever when her mother is killed in an accident. Although her beloved grandfa..

In 1871 young Daisy Fraser is living in the Yorkshire Dales with her beloved family. Her sister Kitt..

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

After a stray bomb destroyed his childhood home the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going is ..

Following a scandalous affair wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to R..

October 1940. When VAD nurse Evie narrowly escapes being killed in an air raid during the London Bli..

It will take more than Hitler's Luftwaffe to break the spirit of the residents of Lavender Road. If ..

In September 1940 the Isle of Dogs suffers the first terrible night of a nine-month Blitz. Amidst th..

Headmaster Theodore Quinn has lived in Liverpool since coming over from America to fight for Britain..

Nothing can change her love for her son Gloria and Joe were the golden couple until tragedy left..

It's the late 1950s and change is in the air. For the Napier family up at the big house the old ways..

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

Rodney Prince a doctor who chose to work amongst the poor of Newcastle to the shame of his beautiful..

Winter 1919 Two months after the Armistice that ended the Great War and life in London's East End is..

1930 the Isle of Dogs. Young Lily Bright works long hours on a market stall selling furniture and b..

In the dark days following the Blitz young Pearl Jenkins finds happiness as she celebrates her marri..

Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. The house has bee..

When Kate Mitchell was offered the job of part-time secretary at Tor-Fret a lonely old house on the ..

June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work 17-yea..

Liverpool 1936. Molly Penelope Hardwick has been abandoned in Haisborough Orphanage. Desperate to di..

1941 the Isle of Dogs. Neglected by their drunken mother young Bella Doyle and her brother Terry ar..

The youngest of five siblings Lottie Mortimer has never felt like she belonged. Her mother died shor..

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

Now that her family is grown content in the knowledge that she loves them Lucy Henshaw decides she i..

The Lake District 1908.It seems as though Livia Ella and Maggie Angel lead a charmed life on a large..

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

Yorkshire 1915. Mary Cooper has worked at Stonedale Mill for many years and wants to contribute to ..

High above the river stood the small terrace of miners' cottages known as Fenwick Houses. And here d..

Andrew Sanderson brilliant surgeon and renowned musician is still grieving the death of his wife Mar..

Summer 1953. Hilary Napier's life is turned upside-down when Marianne a beautiful French woman knock..

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

In the wake of World War Two the whole country is desperate for houses with very little money availa..

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

March 1915. Caroline Lilley's fiancé Reggie is away at the Front and Caroline gives up her job and ..

With her husband Nick away fighting Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning but finds herself ..

In the aftermath of war Angie Westwood thinks the hard times are behind her. But when her cousin Jan..

Rosie's family doesn't have much money but she's rich in other ways and when Danny Walsh asks her to..

Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying a basket on one arm. As sirens begin and bomb..

It is 1918; the Kaiser’s empire is about to fall and Captain Harry Phillips a prisoner of war in a..

1938 Britain and Germany are on the brink of war and tension and fear is felt throughout Europe. In ..

1934. Talented eighteen-year-old dancer Bonny Burton joins the chorus at Southampton's Palace of Var..

It is 1935 and as Carrie Courtney watches her twin sister Connie marry the man of her dreams Carrie ..

She had the voice of an angel...but it led her to sin A miner's daughter from the village of Annsdal..

Two years have passed since Livia and her sisters suffered at the hands of their brutal father and a..

1937 Edinburgh. Attractive dark-eyed Jinny Hendrie is happy enough in her job in the accounts office..

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

1915. While World War One changes the country with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men bein..

Claudia Muldoon and her sister Jenny live with their parents and their gran in her house in Blodwen ..

What possible connections might exist between an aged man who used to sell shoes some ladies of the ..

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

When Lucy's estranged mother dies unexpectedly her grief is overwhelming. Lucy was disowned when she..

17-year-old Alice Tozer comes as a maid to the Tozers' farm in Burracombe in the spring of 1918. She..

1928 The Isle of Dogs. When her sailor husband goes missing presumed drowned Eve Kumar struggles to ..

An impetuous decision to marry has left the young Lady Caroline widowed and with two estates in her ..

Margriet grew up as a lonely child in the old town of hull. Her adored father travelled often to the..

A new generation of the Maxwell family are farming at Wester Rullion during the 1980s. Young Paul Ma..

1912 in the Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer...

The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful wild Northumbrian coast. But ..

Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day..

Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..

There would be trouble at Paradise . . . From birth Polly Harper seems destined for tragedy. Raised ..

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..

At twenty-five teacher Phyllis Bird is still living with her parents her brothers lost in the Great ..

1920s. When her father dies Ellie Douglas has little option but to go into service. Her position tak..

Britain is at war and Ruth a gifted pilot is determined to join the Air Transport Auxiliary. Over in..

Spring 1942. Lizzie is making plans for her wedding with fiance Bill. But preparations during wartim..

1890 Western Australia. 14-year-old Sarette Maitland is orphaned when her father dies of a snake bit..

An only child 15-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a c..

Sally Travis appeared to have been badly let down by Rhys Martin who had gone away to college when u..

Austria 1938. Anne von Korvacs watches in horror as Hitler's tanks roll through the streets of Vienn..

With her mother dead her crippled father a broken and bitter man and her elder brother deeply in deb..

Lizzie finds that life in the Birmingham blitz is hard. Her husband is fighting abroad and her young..

On her deathbed Lucy Fallow’s mother makes her promise to look after her younger siblings and keep..

Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child content to play hopscotch with her friends. But after Em's moth..

It is 1907. Liverpool is a bustling and busy city. Sisters Livvie and Amy Goodwin are just 16 and 13..

Lavender Road boasts a pawnbroker a pub two rows of terraced working class homes and at one end the ..

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..

1945. War is over and people are celebrating but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire Judith..

On Easter day in 1918 Frances Kemp looked out at the little thatched village and promised that one d..