1945. War is over and people are celebrating but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire Judith..

In the wake of World War Two the whole country is desperate for houses with very little money availa..

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

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

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..

Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..

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..

1933. Europe is a place of increasing fear and violence. Young British photographer Elena Standish i..

Italy 1933. Fresh from her exploits in Berlin British photographer Elena Standish is chosen for a se..

In June 1837 the 18-year-old Victoria wakes up to find that she is Queen of the most powerful nation..

It is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital o..

June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work 17-yea..

February 1941. Julie Harris is working in London?s East End as a midwife when a bombing raid destroy..