1890. Alice is the sole bread-winner for her family working at the local cotton mill. But when she s..

Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

Bolton Lancashire: 1943. Livvy knows that her family's survival rests on her shoulders - with her pa..

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

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

The truth is Ella is hiding from a scandal. A scandal that drove her family out of their beloved Lan..

Angelina was abandoned on the doorsteps of Brownlow Workhouse when she was just a baby. The only clu..

It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..

Jenny Simmons has always thought of herself as the ugly duckling of her family so when she blossoms ..

Between work and home life there's plenty to keep Flo occupied. Not least new deputy store manager H..

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

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

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

A few days before Christmas Tess Williams rushes into Albert Payne's tobacconist shop with two boys ..