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.
John Fay
4 Episodes
2013
The first series introduces the life of the apprentices and the daily routines they faced at Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire.
6 Episodes
2014
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.
Esther
Daniel Bate
Susannah Catterall
Peter
Lucy
Matthew Boon
John Howlett
Miriam Catterall
Rebecca Howlett
Hannah Greg
John Doherty
Mill Worker