Summer 1953. The sun is shining on Little Green Street the bunting is being brought out and Britain ..

January 1941 As the residents of Goodwill House feel the hard bite of winter land girl Charlie Somit..

Liverpool 1872. After spending time training at the Infirmary for Women in New York Maud Linklater c..

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

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

When the parish guardians send Lydia daughter of convict James Knowles to apprentice in the cotton m..

Tragedy strikes a small Yorkshire mining town when Sarah Wild's husband dies in a terrible accident...

1938. Cadi is chosen to be Rose Queen in the annual Rose Fete. She is thrilled but deep down she is ..

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

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

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

April 1942. New mother Alice Milwood is itching to return to her job as a shop assistant at Libertyâ..

Manchester 1922. Molly Watson has had enough. Engaged for the last three years to a penny-pinching p..

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

London 1899. As she prepares for a glittering ball 20-year-old Gertrude Melrose considers her good f..