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Henry Hobson (Jonathan Hester) runs a boot business in Salford, in Harold Brighouse\u2019s play.  He is overbearing, controlling, and a drunk.  His eldest daughter Maggie (Deborah Hester) decides to marry the skilled Willie Mossop, one of Hobson\u2019s boot-hands (John Otter).  Her business acumen and stubbornness plus Willie\u2019s skill mean that they take away Hobson\u2019s trade and become a successful business.  When Hobson\u2019s drinking gets out of control, the previously timid Willie offers to come back if Hobson agrees to make him a partner.  Hobson must be a sleeping partner only.  Backed into a corner, with no other option, Hobson agrees<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sylvia Wright produces, assisted by David Challenger and Vivien Stuart<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four new members are welcomed: David Barnard as Albert Prosser, Helen Pearson as Ada Figgins, Steve Andrews as Tubby Wadlow and Lee Craven as Fred Beenstock<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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Henry Hobson (Jonathan Hester) runs a boot business in Salford, in Harold Brighouse\u2019s play.  He is overbearing, controlling, and a drunk.  His eldest daughter Maggie (Deborah Hester) decides to marry the skilled Willie Mossop, one of Hobson\u2019s boot-hands (John Otter).  Her business acumen and stubbornness plus Willie\u2019s skill mean that they take away Hobson\u2019s trade and become a successful business.  When Hobson\u2019s drinking gets out of control, the previously timid Willie offers to come back if Hobson agrees to make him a partner.  Hobson must be a sleeping partner only.  Backed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":801,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/817\/revisions\/962"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}