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

September 1940. As Luftwaffe bombs rain from the skies over London the women of Lavender Road are fi..

London has been ravaged by war for three years now and life couldn't be tougher for those living on ..

It's 1944. London's citizens are weary of air raids and rationing. But there are rumours of an invas..

August 1944. Allied troops are fighting their way across Europe. But rocket attacks on London are a ..

It is 1938 and the threat of war looms on the streets of London. But when the lights go down in the ..

When the Second World War breaks out Annie Webster and her close-knit family find themselves - along..

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

After the death of their parents Faith and her brother James are raised by an aunt. While James goes..

In 1960 Kate Freeman daughter of the inimitable Rose Webster goes to London to follow her dream of b..

It’s 1925 and Kate Cameron is just sixteen when she’s taken on at a shipyard on the Clyde. Kateâ..

Ruby and Grace have grown up in the poorest slums of Hull. Friends since early childhood they have s..

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

It is the late 1850s and a tired woman holding a baby walks from Hull to one of the big houses in An..

A loving and hard-working child Emily goes into service when she is twelve at the house of Roger Fra..