In the aftermath of war Angie Westwood thinks the hard times are behind her. But when her cousin Jan..

A few days before Christmas Tess Williams rushes into Albert Payne's tobacconist shop with two boys ..

Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child content to play hopscotch with her friends. But after Em's moth..

In the backstreets of Liverpool Eileen Watson lives with her mother Nellie daughter Mel and her thre..

It wasn't a privileged childhood but it was a happy one. Sybil and Lizzie Cream brought up in a fish..

Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying a basket on one arm. As sirens begin and bomb..

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

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

Ruby and Grace have grown up in the poorest slums of Hull. Friends since early childhood they have s..

Jimmy Trewin and his little sister are devastated by their mother's death and horrified to find them..

In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..

Daniel has lived his whole life with his mother adoptive father and his stepbrothers and sister in a..

Polly living in grinding poverty loses her mother in childbirth and finds herself alone on the stree..

Angelina was abandoned on the doorsteps of Brownlow Workhouse when she was just a baby. The only clu..

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