"Yesterday wilderness. Tomorrow civilisation."
In the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build.
Annie Quaintain
Johnny Jackson
Ralph Coates
Lace Polly
George Quaintain
Alma Capstick
Martha Quaintain
Joe Capstick
Lizzie Capstick
