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

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

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

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

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

In the mid-1850s life for an orphan was grim as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died s..

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

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

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

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

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

1918. Fleeing from her past Cathy Carmichael is new to the Sixteen Streets. She has nothing to her n..

London 1930s. Years after she first fled to South Shields Cathy is known by everyone as the landlady..

England 1940s. Minnie has spent most of her life feeling like a plain Jane watching things happen ar..

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