Title: Workhouse Waif
Description: Eleven-year-old, Megan Hopkins, is an inmate at Merthyr Tydfil Union Workhouse. Megan's family has fallen on hard times. Her hardworking collier father, was killed in a mining accident at Castle Pit Troedyrhiw, and her mother has six mouths to feed, besides her own, so they all find themselves interned at the local workhouse. One day, Megan has been asked by the matron to fetch some shopping as there's a Board of Guardians meeting that afternoon, she is skipping past the Temperance Hall holding a wicker basket in her hand, when she's stopped in her tracks by the most melodious voice she has ever heard in her life. It's the voice of an angel, called, Kathleen O'Hara. Megan doesn't realise it, but their paths are about to cross and maybe a little magic is about to occur ...