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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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