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

For Amelia and her siblings the grim past which their mother Emily had endured seemed very far away...

For ten years Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack and as a young unmarried mother lif..

Young Mikey Quinn scavenging on the streets of Hull is thrown into prison for stealing a rabbit from..

Seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works long hours at Grange Paper Works with her younger sister Bea. Wh..

1850. Beatrix is just 18 when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Upon meeting her futu..

Liverpool 1939. Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However behind closed doors she li..

Margriet grew up as a lonely child in the old town of hull. Her adored father travelled often to the..

A young family has to relocate from the countryside to Hull looking for work. They find somewhere to..

After the market crash of 1929 the Bowmaker family in Leigh-on-Sea are struggling to make ends meet...

At twenty-five teacher Phyllis Bird is still living with her parents her brothers lost in the Great ..

At twenty-one Lily Knowles is desperate to leave home so she escapes to London to train as a nurse. ..

Maria is a girl with a great talent for fabric design and while the world becomes embroiled in war a..

Sally who married young to escape her appalling childhood is often left to bitterly reflect on the h..

The market town of Everham is full of rumours and counter-rumours. Dr Leigh McDowall medical registr..