Gosport 1941. The Bluebird Girls - Rainey Bird Bea Herron and Ivy Sparrow - are on their way to star..

Eighteen-year-old Connie Baxter works as an usherette at the Criterion Picture House in Gosport. Her..

Norfolk 1939. The residents of Great Plumstead agree to open up their homes to evacuees from London...

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

Kent 1815. When the beautiful but naive Grace Lennicker falls for Isaiah Feasey son of a rival smugg..

Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..

Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

Cliffehaven 1944. Peggy Reilly is enjoying a rare moment alone in the garden of her Beach View Board..

1938. As England awaits the outbreak of war Juliet Winterton journeys from the Mediterranean to the ..

Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..

Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..

For ten years Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack and as a young unmarried mother lif..

1850. Beatrix is just 18 when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Upon meeting her futu..