[Our Street at War 01] • The Postmistress

Heartwarming and nostalgic new Saga series from the author of Mother’s Day on Coronation Street.

It’s 1939 and one ordinary street in Lancashire is getting ready for war, but who knows what else is going on behind the blacked-out windows?

Sylvia Barker runs the haberdashery in the village of Millhead, her headstrong daughter Rose has no plans to waste her life on a lot of old needle and cotton. She’ll get a shock when a few family secrets come to light.

Violet Pegg has been writing to a Canadian pilot and is excited to learn he is going to be stationed nearby; with so many girls eager to make friends with the handsome young man, will Violet get a look in?

Vicky Parrot has known more heartache and tragedy than most 25 year old and she wouldn’t know where to look for happiness even if she tried, is the war about to change all that.

In a time when the country is pulling together, can the people of Millhead do their best for King and country?