Christmas Leeds, 1863. Times are hard.
All is not well at Thomas Treadgolds toy emporium 33-35 Briggate, Leeds. Sales are at an all time low, the street urchins like the toys but can't afford them, and the spoilt bratts think they're rubbish! And just when you thought things couldn't get any worse "Patricia Potato Princess of Britain and the Empire" takes an interest in the premises. So begins this strange chain of events, involving patent medicines, an perhaps a little magic!!!