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William and Emma Sinclair have settled into life at Moorend Farm in North Yorkshire and live happily..

1919 in Ashford-in-the-Water Derbyshire. Walter Ryan has returned home a broken man and so it falls ..

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Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..

Welcome to the district nurses’ home on Steeple Street where everyone has a secret…Ambitious you..

Ever since the death of her beloved husband Peter Caroline's life in Bath has not been the same. Fri..

Germany 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport unsure that she'll ever see her parents agai..

A few days before Christmas Tess Williams rushes into Albert Payne's tobacconist shop with two boys ..

Living in Victorian Oxfordshire Poppy Woods has suffered neglect and cruelty from her very first bre..

Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..

Spring 1942. Lizzie is making plans for her wedding with fiance Bill. But preparations during wartim..

Norfolk 1944. Phylly is a Land Girl on Catchetts Farm. She and her friend Gracie are doing their bit..

1935: As the Depression bites beautiful Lindy Gillan dreams of getting away from her boring life in ..

Cock Shield Farm 1881. After Molly Geary finds herself pregnant with landowner Angus McBain's child ..

It is 1935 and as Carrie Courtney watches her twin sister Connie marry the man of her dreams Carrie ..

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Wes..

1942. Working in the greengrocers and playing the piano in the pub isn't fulfilling 19-year-old Trix..

1941 the Isle of Dogs. Neglected by their drunken mother young Bella Doyle and her brother Terry ar..

Following a scandalous affair wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to R..

After the death of her mother during childbirth Beth is left to care for her father and two older br..

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

It is 1918; the Kaiser’s empire is about to fall and Captain Harry Phillips a prisoner of war in a..

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..

Annabella LaGrange was the only child of a wealthy family owners of a glassworks in the North-East o..

After a stray bomb destroyed his childhood home the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going is ..

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Kirby believes she's all alone in the world when her mother is killed in ..

The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolise defeat for Charli..

It is war-time Britain and seduced by her brother-in-law Frances 16 becomes pregnant and is banished..

The youngest of five siblings Lottie Mortimer has never felt like she belonged. Her mother died shor..

Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..

When young British agent John Kirby is sent to Russia in 1911 he does not expect to fall in love. T..

After two years Meg Fairfax has finally started to make a success of herself. Her skills as a baker ..

Liverpool 1936. Molly Penelope Hardwick has been abandoned in Haisborough Orphanage. Desperate to di..

It is 1938 and the threat of war looms on the streets of London. But when the lights go down in the ..

Viv’s marriage to David was not a conventional one but when he died - in an accident for which she..

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..

Judith is suddenly all alone in the world. Her husband Jack has left her - why she doesn't really kn..

Rosemary Palmer-Farr loves farming and animals and has spent much of her childhood at Bengairney Far..

France 1918. Sophia the rebellious daughter of a distinguished German general is on her way to the t..

Orphaned Eliza Dunlop has been working as a companion to a rich but cantankerous old lady Miss Grego..

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

The Broadhursts were a mining family and to outsiders they appeared to be happy loyal and united. Bu..

With her husband Nick away fighting Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning but finds herself ..

Blackpool summer 1942._x000D_Meet the Ballroom Girls: Sylvia Pearl and Joy. Three girls dancing thro..

1501 Plymouth Devon. Luke Kendal the long awaited son of Elizabeth and John grows up under the lovin..

1905. Rosie Belsfield feels as if her life has ended when she is rejected from Ellis Island and put ..

In 1897 four-year-old Lucy Thornbury’s parents are killed in a train crash. Taken in by her kindly..

Cornwall: 1793. Rose Pengelly's father has been ruined - he has lost his boat yard and his fortune p..

The Second World War has finally come to a close. Rachel Booker's husband has returned and the famil..

It will take more than Hitler's Luftwaffe to break the spirit of the residents of Lavender Road. If ..

Wesley Curnow a young Cornish miner arrives in the United States to seek an uncle who is working on ..

Scotland 1722: on a windswept island an enigmatic poetess foretells tragedy and the birth of an extr..

Molly's life changes forever when her mother is killed in an accident. Although her beloved grandfa..

Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out. She is des..

Ever since her mother died Martha Mary had had to take over the running of her home a sprawling mans..

When Kate Mitchell was offered the job of part-time secretary at Tor-Fret a lonely old house on the ..

When her father dies Abigail Newman is forced to leave her mother and the vicarage she was raised in..

October 1940. When VAD nurse Evie narrowly escapes being killed in an air raid during the London Bli..

It's the late 1950s and change is in the air. For the Napier family up at the big house the old ways..

It is 1919 and Liverpool has been devastated by World War I. Sons husbands and fathers have been los..

Tilly was first a rich man's mistress then a frontier wife and now a widow. With her two children ha..

Despite being part of the large O'Donnell family Milly has felt alone in the world since her father ..

Spring 1919. WW1 might be over but the inhabitants of Dorcalon in the Welsh Valleys still feel the p..

It is March 1950 and Honey Brown marries the farmer she adores - August Blake Esq. With her mother-i..

In the backstreets of Liverpool Eileen Watson lives with her mother Nellie daughter Mel and her thre..

When Commander Martin Black is shot down over enemy territory and ends up in a POW camp his wife Ann..

Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day..

It is 1907. Liverpool is a bustling and busy city. Sisters Livvie and Amy Goodwin are just 16 and 13..

As war rages across Europe in Dundee the Neill family continues to face challenges and hardships. Ro..

It's Christmas Eve 1920 when Abby Kirby's family is ripped apart. Leaving everything she's ever know..

Tilly Trotter has devotedly served Mark Sopwith at Highfield Manor for twelve years. She is his wife..

Lizzie finds that life in the Birmingham blitz is hard. Her husband is fighting abroad and her young..

Charlotte Booth loves her father and the home they share which is set high up in the limestone escar..

When Polly Pritchard learns that her husband has been killed in action she brings up their young dau..

The Second World War is finally over when Lola Brown meets Harry Riggs at a dance. It is love at fir..

In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..

Liverpool 1941. After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool she is m..

Left homeless after the Exeter Blitz May must find a job if she's to put a roof over her head and he..

A heart-breaking choice between love and duty...York 1886. Sarah-Lou has just left school and is re..

High above the river stood the small terrace of miners' cottages known as Fenwick Houses. And here d..

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

The Lake District 1908.It seems as though Livia Ella and Maggie Angel lead a charmed life on a large..

1914. Evie Munro is a Scottish fisher girl working the herring season from Wick to Great Yarmouth. F..

Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth where she works servicin..

The day that Hilary and David have been waiting for has finally arrived and as the church bells ring..