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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ..

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

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

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