Part one of the drama is set in June/July 1842. Mary Smith (Lisa Dillon) flees a crisis at home in Manchester to stay with two spinster sisters, Deborah Jenkyns (Dame Eileen Atkins) and Matty Jenkyns ...

It's Fox Cranford's 30-year anniversary, but the celebration is a damp squib involving Gloria's homemade cake. Kenny is panic stricken when he mistakenly thinks that Tania is pregnant, Mike is on the ...

Cranford’s ladies are focused on preparing for Lady Ludlow’s Garden Party. Cranford’s ladies are focused on preparing for Lady Ludlow’s Garden Party, the social event of the year. New bonnets are made ...

In season one, talk of a new railway being built brings fears of the breakdown of law and order; and the arrival of a handsome new doctor from London causes a stir among the ladies' in the town. The ...

In Cranford all the householders above a certain rent are women. They are the architects of the town's social image. Occasionally a man breaks into the circle, with interesting results. Miss Matty ...