In the Nightingale Hospital Matron Helen finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly disco..

It was a wartime white wedding but it was not a love match. Annie Cooper married George McCabe for o..

After falling pregnant unexpectedly 16-year-old Catrin is devastated when her neglectful father send..

Lancashire 1929. Holcombe Hall's enigmatic owner has passed away and as the roaring 20s come to an e..

Manchester December 1940. This winter the girls boarding at Star House - Betty Sally and Lorna - are..

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

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

Northumberland 1909. When Shona Hardy's husband is lost at sea she finds herself alone in a village ..

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

Naomi is upset to find a nasty anonymous letter land on her doorstep. Who could've sent something li..

Seven years ago Charlotte Russell's father walked out on her family. Ever since the task of caring f..

Evacuated to the countryside she realises there are more dangers than German bombs in wartime… Can..

When the Gallachers received an invitation from the Duke of Moorshire to attend an evening at Lea Ha..

Summer 1916. Despite the misery of war in the air some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge rem..

From grieving widow... 1851 England. After her merchant husband saved her from a life of prostitutio..

Helen Bygrove is managing the hotel now that her husband has been conscripted. Against all expectati..

Liverpool 1942. As the threat of war draws closer Isla Donahue seeks solace in her sweetheart Rory. ..

Holderness 1988. Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about t..

Sisters Alice and Annie have always been close but will a man come between them? Annie and Alice lov..

In the dead of night a young woman is found on the doorstep of the House of Help for Friendless Girl..

Surrey 1940. Overhead the Battle of Britain rages. Below at the Poppy Factory disabled WWI veterans ..

May 1910. The village of Oystertown is home to those who make their living from the sea. Yet social ..

Spring 1942. After a difficult few years with her husband Victor Prue's life is about to change in a..

Manchester 1941. Kept apart by war work bombs and blackouts Lorna and her beloved George cherish eve..

Spring 1943. After a visit to see her mother in Sussex with Ned it's time for VAD nurse Evie Jones t..

England 1943. With Christmas days away the land girls of Gosling Farm are full of merriment. Only Lo..

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

In 1860’s Yorkshire a woman’s fortune belongs to her husband - regardless of a so-called-gentlem..

Olivia Brodie is a devoted parlourmaid serving the Broadbent family at Hawthorn Manor and spending p..

Nan Turpin is in trouble again accused of stealing. She's guilty. Cast out by her family she turns t..

The year of 1947 is almost upon them and the community of Cliffehaven is still reeling from the trag..

London October 1940. Dot is finding her independence and takes a full-time role as an ARP warden. As..

In A Wartime Christmas at Rookery House former cook Hettie Brown hears some shocking news making her..

Kent 1828. Lizzie Carey of Castle Bay is trapped in a life she never chose - endless days of cooking..

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

1939. The threat of war is looming over Blackpool but Martha and Trisha are determined not to let it..

Rowntree's Factory York 1935. The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on..

When Sheena is forced to move back to Kiltie Street she is unsure how she will start all over again...

Jenny starts her training as a nanny but does she have what it takes - and will her family survive w..

The war to end all wars has come to an end and Nell Tanner is overjoyed to have her father home. But..

When Lucy's estranged mother dies unexpectedly her grief is overwhelming. Lucy was disowned when she..

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

When Charity Browne arrives at The Fitzroy Hotel on her way to a country house party she knows there..

North Atlantic Ocean 1942. Fifteen-year-old Connie is leaving war-torn England for the safer shores ..

Manchester 1940: the minute war was declared best friends Sally and Debs volunteered for the home gu..

As the Great War rages Jack's toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham is threa..

London 1941. The war has robbed eight-year-old orphan Elsie of everything except her older brother J..

Carrie Anderson's business selling books at her local train station is thriving and with her beloved..

Sarah is lonely. Living in a small Yorkshire village with just her grandmother for company she longs..

It's April 1944 England is preparing to take the war back into Europe and the girls of the Air Trans..

When war is declared Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of H..

1939. When war sends five displaced children to her door Dodie Fitznorton knows life will never be t..

Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep along with a not..

Jonathan Ratcliffe is the successful manager of Affleck and Tate's engineering works. He has succeed..

His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns a..

London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..

To outsiders Dr Paul Higgins' life appeared to be happy and contented. Everyone had a good word for ..

Can she finally put herself first in order to find love? Peggy Cassidy is a milly working in the Bel..

After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Fin..

Tammy and her mother Grace are desperate to escape Tammy's violent bully of a father. But when an un..

When Olive receives a letter in the post from the father of her daughter - American soldier Joe - sh..

1950. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Cliffe and her younger sister Eliza have the perfect lives wantin..

Young widow Julia Nance has found happiness again running her beloved guesthouse Fairlight but with ..

Glasgow 1943. After becoming pregnant out of wedlock only to find out her betrothed was already marr..

When Betty and her best friend Sally discover a baby tucked in a blanket amongst the rubble at the M..

1916 Scotland. Five years after leading a strike at the sewing factory newly pregnant Ellen is rushe..

July 1942. Newlywed Bobby Atherton has barely had time to experience married life with her airman hu..

It's late summer 1940 and Isla Donahue's idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father se..

Seventeen-year-old Elise Bouchard has always called Northern France home. But when her English fathe..

Liverpool 1848. Meg Shaw is the middle child of eight siblings not old enough to bring in a wage to ..

Manchester 1944. Alison is thriving in her rewarding role at the railways. But when family tragedy s..

Holcombe Hall 1931. Florrie Bickerstaff has finally settled in as the new Housekeeper of Holcombe Ha..

Hetty Affleck is working as a maid at the prestigious Beach Hotel in Littlehampton. Her beau Lorcan ..

Gilly Jenkins is the third generation to bake for her family firm. Also on Bread Street in the same ..

1876. Life is happy for ten-year-old Rebecca Wheeler in the small fishing village of Leonard's Bay. ..

York 1940. World War Two has arrived for the girls of the Rowntree's factory and with rationing crip..

There are men who can at times be stirred by the power and conflict of their own emotions to the poi..

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

In Battenbun Northumberland there live four Puddleton men - Grandpop Old Popo Pop and Peter. Three o..

Norfolk 1944. Great Plumstead is buzzing with news that the American GIs have arrived on the nearby ..

Livia Blake has lost her husband and faces a crossroads. Her friend suggests she would make an excel..

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

Life on the river has never been easy for Tilly and Sam but they've built a home filled with love. J..

Chambermaid Fanny is thanking her lucky stars she has had a second chance at life. As an unmarried m..

London's East End 1940. A frightened young woman gives birth to a tiny baby. Clearly alone she refus..

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

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