Sunderland 1942: Polly's heart and her future are hanging in the balance...Polly's sweetheart Tommy ..

Winter 1942. Brenda and Joyce are just two of the girls who have joined the Women's Land Army and ar..

Peace has finally been declared in the Far East but for those living at Beach View Boarding House th..

Sunderland 1943: With the future of Britain uncertain the shipyard girls fight to keep their lives o..

July 1916. In the Rhymney Valley young mother Violet Jones is caring for four-year-old Clarice and b..

Between work and home life there's plenty to keep Flo occupied. Not least new deputy store manager H..

Yorkshire 1944. The end of the war feels close but Air Transport Auxiliary girls Bobbie Viv and Mary..

Liverpool 1935. Monica Savage is delighted when the Copperfields move in next door and she quickly b..

Throughout County Tipperary the three sisters were known as the Sisters O'Donnell. Together they mov..

Cat Cleary is a 16-year-old Irish 'slummy' arriving in Liverpool to seek her fortune. Joe Calligan t..

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

Christmas should be the happiest time but at Pennington’s dramas are seething beneath the surface...

December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..

The hedonism of London in the roaring twenties is a world away from Annabel Tarleton's ordinary coun..

London 1950Peggy Ronoscki is happily settling into life running her guesthouse on Mulberry Lane surr..