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Published on: 23/11/2017 07:33 AMReported by: rogerblaxall
Jeannie Pritchard of Burscough's popular doll and teddy bear ‘hospital’ restored a World War One soldier doll in time for Remembrance Sunday.
Jeannie, 58, who owns Pritchard’s Doll and Teddy Hospital on Liverpool Road North, specialises in restoring dolls, teddies and ceramic figures.
As well as the small ceramic doll, in a WW1 soldier's uniform, she also restored a memorial tablet in honour of a soldier from Ormskirk who was killed during the conflict, whose name is also on the remembrance monument.
Jeannie first became interested in doll conservation work over 20 years ago and completed a course in restoring ceramics before taking on a job at the conservation studios at the Museum of Lancashire for more than three years.
She was forced to retire 11 years ago, diagnosed with lupus and diabetes but by working three–hour shifts four days a week, her doll hospital - which started from a workshop in her home ten years ago and moved to a studio at the Wharf, is now in a specially themed cafe next to Burscough parish church: http://ormskirk.qlocal.co.uk/ormskir...h-55016981.htm
She restores unusual items from all over the world and has mended a teddy bear whose hat was and legs were damaged in an IRA blast, fixed a doll from the Belsen Concentration camp whose legs were broken and mended dolls once owned by Queen Victoria and Margaret Thatcher as well as a broken doll given to a child at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital by Queen Mary, the wife of King George.
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