The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolise defeat for Charli..

Cornwall 1930. Bertie Fox has had her dreams of motorcycle racing cut short by a life-changing accid..

Despite being part of the large O'Donnell family Milly has felt alone in the world since her father ..

Hopes are high at the Fitzroy Hotel on Edward VII's Coronation Day. London is full of people celebra..

As 1954 draws to an end the village of Hen Carw Parc is changing. The post-war boom brings a creepin..

When Annie and her brother Cory are orphaned Hettie's mother takes them in. Hettie and Annie sell wa..

Little Max is growing day by day and Joan is adjusting to her new life. But in her heart of hearts s..

Sep McGilby always said that Emily Kennedy had a happy face. And at 16 Emily had a lot to be glad ab..

For five years May and evacuee Cliff have fought against village bullies and bigots. Despite the har..

Liverpool 1928. Fifteen-year-old Annie Anderson was adopted by Sylvia and Hugh after the death of th..

When Maisie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island she causes ..

Sheffield 1867. It's the height of a long-running and violent campaign known as the Outrages where m..

1912. Fifteen-year-old Kate Truscott leaves her small Hampshire village to become a nursemaid to fiv..

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

In February 1944 the girls of the Air Transport Auxiliary Mystery Club face the devastating personal..

Pendragon Island is the perfect place for holidays with a stretch of clean golden sand and a gloriou..

Eliza Jones and her husband Bryn had a whirlwind romance and married shortly after meeting but he wa..

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

Janet and Hywel Griffiths dream of seeing their son Frank happily married but Mair the daughter of t..

Living in Victorian Oxfordshire Poppy Woods has suffered neglect and cruelty from her very first bre..

Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..

Now that her brood had left the nest Fanny McBride a large cheerful and indomitable Tyneside widow h..

Ever since her mother died Martha Mary had had to take over the running of her home a sprawling mans..

Blackpool 1918. _x000D_Martha is 17 and alone in the world. Of Irish decent her flashing green eyes..

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

Cockney born Nelly Luke is an essential part of the community. Yet not even Nelly with her shrewd ey..

Annabella LaGrange was the only child of a wealthy family owners of a glassworks in the North-East o..

1922. After the horrors of the Great War the close-knit Truscott family returns to everyday life on ..

The Weston family have always pinned their hopes for creating a dynasty on their glamorous granddaug..

March 1941. After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz she decides to le..

Monica Eustace and Joan McDonald met as next-door-neighbours living in Mersey View in Liverpool. Tho..

Determined not to waste his life toiling for his cruel brother Silas arrives in town to seek his for..

England 1913. Eighteen-year-old Rose Strong has loved childhood friend Michael Redfern for as long a..

Fiercely independent Marguerite Sinclair has the opportunity of a lifetime to become a nurse and con..

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

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

Blackpool summer 1942._x000D_Meet the Ballroom Girls: Sylvia Pearl and Joy. Three girls dancing thro..

When tragedy strikes Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute fending for herself on the capital..

When Angie marries her sweetheart Quentin and moves into Cuthford Manor to begin their new life toge..

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

Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..

Clydebank 1911. Ellen works at the Sewing Machine factory. So does her sister Bridget Bridget's fian..

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

Clemmie throws herself into volunteering with the very organisation who helped her and her sisters w..

After two years Meg Fairfax has finally started to make a success of herself. Her skills as a baker ..

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..

Motherhood is every woman's right and the natural outcome of a happy marriage. But what then when a ..

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

Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out. She is des..

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..

Somerset 1911. Miner's wife Lorna Harrison sometimes wonders what became of her marriage. Her husban..

Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow w..

When Thomas Grant - one of the most eligible young men in London - proposes to Annabel Seaton she ca..

Poachers and dealmakers the Griffiths family have always managed to scrape by on the edge of the law..

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

The South Wales village of Hen Carw Parc is a haven of rural peace. But times are changing and altho..

1813. Meg Marsh will do anything to keep a roof over her family's head - even getting involved in a ..

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

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

Hucknall 1941. Female conscription looms and three women arrive at the Bell Works Factory to work on..

When Cissie Brody was 15 fever swept the English countryside killing her parents and leaving her to ..

Wolsingham 1900. After the death of their parents Connie Dom Leo and Pearl find themselves all alone..

Manchester 1943. Emily is enjoying her new job as a station porter until she learns that a trusted f..

Lancashire 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name and a brave step towards a happier life. Sudde..

It has finally happened! The war is over and Europe rejoices. May 1945 - VE Day. After battling agai..

Left homeless after the Exeter Blitz May must find a job if she's to put a roof over her head and he..

Born into poverty and hardship Ruby Skinner's decision to approach the unscrupulous East End villain..

A small Welsh town hosts a lively and varied community - and none more so than Nelly Luke the cheerf..

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

Her name was Hannah Boyle but to the people of the village she would always be 'The Girl' - Matthew ..

November 1942. Even during wartime the glitz and glamour of the ballroom shines through at Christmas..

Blackpool 1922. Martha and Trisha may have escaped poverty but their fortunes have yet to turn. Blis..

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

The strawberry harvest is finally ready. This delicious fruit makes up the main source of income for..

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

After the death of their parents sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whi..

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

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

Manchester 1942. When Cordelia's daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn't meet the approval..

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

A mysterious key left by her murdered sister takes Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Betty Palmer on a j..

Liverpool 1941. After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool she is m..

Someone had once told Emma Molinero the daughter of an itinerant carnival performer that she was mad..

When 17-year-old Marie Sinclair travelled to Strathlinn in Scotland in 1920 to visit her brother and..

Grace and Dougie have been courting for years so when Dougie decides to emigrate to Australia he exp..

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

Kate has always found life on Brimbles Farm difficult but she is struggling more than ever to find t..