As a small child Nellie Peace was always dreaming but sensed her mother’s rejection. Abandoned and..

Marjorie is the pretty one of the Preston sisters. So pretty that when a performer at her sister’s..

Ellen Dawson is glad when the Great War ends but sad that Lady Bingram’s aides are to be disbanded..

The Great War opened up an exciting new career for Vi in London. But that was yesterday. Now the war..

Amy Logan’s family are poor but proud. They scrape a living by shrimping for the big Liverpool fis..

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

Rainey Bird Ivy Sparrow and Bea Herron all love to sing. For Rainey music has been a solace during t..

1943 and The Bluebird Girls are at the top of their game. They are touring with ENSA visiting army b..

As war finally draws to a close what will victory and peacetime bring for the south coast's Bluebird..

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

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