Sheffield 1867. It's the height of a long-running and violent campaign known as the Outrages where m..

1912. Fifteen-year-old Kate Truscott leaves her small Hampshire village to become a nursemaid to fiv..

1922. After the horrors of the Great War the close-knit Truscott family returns to everyday life on ..

Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow w..

Manchester 1943. Emily is enjoying her new job as a station porter until she learns that a trusted f..

A small Welsh town hosts a lively and varied community - and none more so than Nelly Luke the cheerf..

The South Wales village of Hen Carw Parc is a haven of rural peace. But times are changing and altho..

As 1954 draws to an end the village of Hen Carw Parc is changing. The post-war boom brings a creepin..

Poachers and dealmakers the Griffiths family have always managed to scrape by on the edge of the law..

When Maisie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island she causes ..

Edward Jenkins dreams of opening a sports shop in the Welsh town of Pendragon Island. Then his ambit..

Janet and Hywel Griffiths dream of seeing their son Frank happily married but Mair the daughter of t..

August 1940. The war is raging in Europe but on the home front conflict still seems far away. Dot li..

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..

Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..