Henry Hobson is the proprietor and tyrant of a prosperous Victorian boot maker's store in Salford, England. A frugal widower with a penchant for overindulgence at the Moonraker Public House, he uses his three children as cheap labor. Maggie opposes when her father says that there will be 'no marriages' in order to avoid the expenditure of marriage settlements at £500 each.
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Henry Hobson is the proprietor and tyrant of a prosperous Victorian boot maker's store in Salford, England. A frugal widower with a penchant for overindulgence at the Moonraker Public House, he uses his three children as cheap labor. Maggie opposes when her father says that there will be 'no marriages' in order to avoid the expenditure of marriage settlements at £500 each.
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