1950. After her marriage went badly wrong Dolly Taylor returned to Rotherhithe from America. She is ..

In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham. A..

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

When Tsar Alexander II decided to drag Russia into the industrial age he began by inviting Welsh bus..

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..

England 1941. Dedicated local vet Laura cares for the farm animals of the little village of Bramble ..

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife a son friends but he was isolated from all the people ..

There were plenty around Fellburn who said Maggie Rowan was as plain as a pikestaff a woman consumed..

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

In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..

The O'Neils who have lost brothers and sons into the bowels of London's East End keep watch over the..

1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..

Ireland 1848. The potato famine has left the Cavanah family destitute. Kitty and Peter manage to sec..

When Jennifer Tucker arrives in the sleepy Devonshire village of Burracombe she's searching for more..

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..