When the parish guardians send Lydia daughter of convict James Knowles to apprentice in the cotton m..

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

Eliza Jones and her husband Bryn had a whirlwind romance and married shortly after meeting but he wa..

The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful wild Northumbrian coast. But ..

Orphaned Jenny and her chimney sweep brother Noah eke out life in a cellar dwelling in the heart of ..

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

England 1940. District Nurse Annie Russell and her mother are listening anxiously to the local boys ..

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..

Now that her brood had left the nest Fanny McBride a large cheerful and indomitable Tyneside widow h..

It’s 1957 and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale H..

March 1941. After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz she decides to le..

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

The eldest of three children Kate helps her mother run the Devlin plait-school. They supply the mate..

Ireland 1848. The potato famine has left the Cavanah family destitute. Kitty and Peter manage to sec..

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