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..

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

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

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 ..

There were plenty around Fellburn who said Maggie Rowan was as plain as a pikestaff a woman consumed..

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

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