October 1942. Viola loves her new job away from the factory and hopes that her romance with the hand..

Liverpool 1935. Monica Savage is delighted when the Copperfields move in next door and she quickly b..

Throughout County Tipperary the three sisters were known as the Sisters O'Donnell. Together they mov..

Cat Cleary is a 16-year-old Irish 'slummy' arriving in Liverpool to seek her fortune. Joe Calligan t..

Eighteen-year-old Connie Baxter works as an usherette at the Criterion Picture House in Gosport. Her..

1943. After the heartache of the previous year Connie Baxter now appears to have everything a girl c..

London 1943. Dot Hanson has never forgotten the thrill of seeing the beautiful Christmas displays at..

1911 Bath. Passionate suffrage campaigner Esther Stanbury works as a window dresser in Pennington's ..

1851. After her husband saved her from a life of prostitution Louisa Hill was briefly happy as a hou..

December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..

Devon 1918. When Jessie Hale loses her nursing job she leaves London to become the nurse maid to the..

The hedonism of London in the roaring twenties is a world away from Annabel Tarleton's ordinary coun..

1939. When the man Georgie has always loved is sent to France on a secret mission every knock of the..

Bath 1852. As a girl Nancy Bloom longed to be part of Bath's Theatre Royal. When a man promised her ..

Leeds 1918. When Amy visits her husband Jude at Beckett's Park Hospital he doesn't recognise her. Br..