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  Hope Yeomans

  Lizzie Arless (35 episodes, 2008-2011)
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  Sophie Miles

  Sally Arless (34 episodes, 2008-2011)
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  Sarah Lancashire

  Adult Laura (40 episodes, 2008-2011)
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  Julia Sawalha

  Dorcas Lane (40 episodes, 2008-2011)
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  Olivia Hallinan

  Laura Timmins (40 episodes, 2008-2011)
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  Paul Ritter

  dl. Steerforth
• 
  Linda Bassett

  Queenie Turrill
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  Claudie Blakley

  Emma Timmins

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  Brendan Coyle

  Robert Timmins
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  Victoria Hamilton

  Ruby Pratt
• 
  Mark Heap

  Thomas Brown
• 
  Karl Johnson

  Twister Turrill
• 
  Sandy McDade

  Margaret Brown
• 
  Matilda Ziegler

  Pearl Pratt
• 
  Ruby Bentall

  Minnie Mude

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  Fergus Drysdale

  Frank Timmins
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  John Dagleish

  Alf Arless
• 
  Martha Murdoch

  Ethel Timmins
• 
  Harry Miles

  Archie Arless
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  Thomas Rhys Jones

  Edmund Timmins