SEE FIRST IMAGES FROM THE HARDACRES 19TH CENTURY TV SERIES AIRING THIS AUTUMN AT CHANNEL 5

   THE HARDACRES   

1ST IMAGES FROM THE PERIOD SET SERIES 

 Channel 5 has unveiled a batch of first images from their new series coming up this Autumn (come by tomorrow for the rest), including THE HARDACRES, a sweeping rags to riches story that follows the lives, loves and fortunes of the working class Hardacre family as they move from a grimy fish dock to a vast country estate in 1890’s Yorkshire.

 

A SMALL SCREEN ADAPTATION OF

CL Skelton’s best-selling series of novels it follows the family of a loving married couple Mary and Sam Hardacre (Claire Cooper and Liam McMahon), who land on hard times following an accident at work on the docks, which leaves them unemployed and broke. With Julie Graham as Mary’s wily mother, Ma, and their three kids, Joe, Liza, and Harry (Adam Little, Shannon Lavelle and Zak Ford-Williams), the family band together to think fast with a business venture that will free them from their humble existence on the North Yorkshire Coast and catapult them into high society. Holly Sturton stars as Adella, Cathy Belton as Emma and Owen Roe as George, from the well to do Fitzherbert Family and new neighbours of The Hardacres. Ingrid Craigie is housekeeper Mrs Dryden, with Siobhan O’Kelly as Lena and Taheen Modak as Saunders.