Polly Longden?s china-doll looks belie a strong and fiery personality. When typhoid strikes she need..

Evacuated to Lincolnshire from the East End Jenny Mercer is frightened of the wide open spaces and t..

Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister Peggy. She is the sensible reliable one in t..

Ruthlessly ambitious Ambrose Constantine is determined that his daughter Annabel shall marry into th..

Neighbours Edie Kelsey and Lil Horton have been friends for over 20 years the wives of fishermen in ..

1919 in Ashford-in-the-Water Derbyshire. Walter Ryan has returned home a broken man and so it falls ..

In Ravenbank Hallowe'en is particularly chilling. It is a time for telling the story of the Faceless..

When Baroness Sophie von Korvacs meets British painter James Fraser one hot summer's day in Vienna t..

The railway system during World War 2 was the lifeline of the nation replacing road transport and me..

Sometimes you come across a lofty railway viaduct marooned in the middle of a remote country landsca..

Five years ago Randall Gyre was convicted of the brutal rape of a young student Lizzie Fane on the I..

Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..

1940. As the bombs rain down on London a close-knit community struggles to survive. Working at the l..

In June 1940 ten-year-old Pam Hobbs took the long journey from her council home in Leigh-on-Sea to f..

The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940 when Winston Ch..