Lancashire 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name and a brave step towards a happier life. Sudde..

June 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazin..

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

At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..

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

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

Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..

When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..

In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..

Kent 1822. Fearing for his life Thomas Marsh has fled Castle Bay and found work as a mill hand deep ..

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

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

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

1952. With smog blanketing London little Grace is in trouble. Her grandmother is dangerously ill but..

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