Mersey Maids

When widower Henry Knell loses his glove-making business to the Dransfields his life is well and truly ruined. With his six young daughters, he moves into rented rooms in a Merseyside back street. Meanwhile, Hattie and Maggie, the eldest girls, are trying to hold the family together. Sophie Dransfield''s husband, Daniel, takes pity on the poverty-stricken Knells and offers Maggie a job as a maid i...