Overview
Powerful historical drama series, based on the lives of real people, telling the story of young 19th-century apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for the first time.
Cast
Kerrie Hayes
Esther
Matthew McNulty
Daniel Bate
Holly Lucas
Susannah Catterall
Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù
Peter
Katherine Rose Morley
Lucy
Ciarán Griffiths
Matthew Boon
Mark Frost
John Howlett
Sacha Parkinson
Miriam Catterall
Laura Main
Rebecca Howlett
Barbara Marten
Hannah Greg
Aidan McArdle
John Doherty
Neil Broome
Mill Worker
Connor Dempsey
Tommy Priestley
Andrew-Lee Potts
William Gregg
Morgan Watkins
George Windell
Seasons
Series 1
The first series introduces the life of the apprentices and the daily routines they faced at Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire.
Series 2
The second series focusses on the lives of the Quarry Bank mill workers between 1838 and 1842, a period of turbulent social, political and industrial change.
