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..

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..

In defending herself against her brutal husband 18-year-old Ruby Clark is forced to flee London. She..

Britain is at war and May Lynch loves the life she?s leading as a pilot and poster girl for the Air ..

It is 1942 and England is at war. Mary Jones has just celebrated her 18th birthday and said goodbye ..

After the death of her parents in a bombing raid Mary Jones discovers a secret in her father?s diari..

It?s 1943 and Peggy Reilly is at her best when the troubles of war come knocking at the door of Beac..

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

As the war continues to keep her family far away Peggy Reilly must continue to look after her girls ..

Cliffehaven 1944. Peggy Reilly is enjoying a rare moment alone in the garden of her Beach View Board..