dolls hospital

[GreenGarden]

ps to my earlier message : the Dolls' Hospital is now 64A Mount Pleasant Liverpool. The bay windows used to be full of dolls and doll's' clothes

[ILoveMyCity]

Correct, the address was 64A Mount Pleasant, a few doors up from the Liverpool YMCA where my mum worked in the late 1960s/early '70s. I remember the 'Hospital' well but there seems to be a lack of any info other than questions. Incidentally, number 64 was the registry office for Liverpool South where John Lennon married Cynthia. 64A appears to be be an added building.

This is a photo of the shop front as it looks today, courtesy of Tony Snell (BBC Radio Merseyside)

[emeltom]

This has brought back memories of childhood. Our bus into town used to pass the Doll's Hospital and one day I was so upset at the thought of all the sick dolls in hospital that I actually burst into tears! What a wimp I must have been at times.

Back in the 80's there was one on Smithdown Road, I think, near Ullet Road. Not sure if it's still there or not.

Emeltom

[ainslie]

The one at Smithdown Road/Ullet Road junction is still there.
A

[emmsthheight]

Hi

Fancy there still being a dolls hospital!

We had toddler sized doll we had passed on to us. She had long plaited hair and if you walked her she moved her head from side to side as her legs moved alternately. She went to a hospital and came back with a new short wavy blande hairdo and a new pink party frock with silver sparkle through it.

Best wishes

Emms

Ps Sure they're missing out without these mechanical but non electronic toys

Also, will there be a revolution and market for toys that mend eg woven for sewing or wooden to stick and screw??-

[bunbar]

My Mum worked at a dolls hospital somewhere around Brownlow Hill in the early1930s, I have a photo of a place called Bradley's not sure if that's what it was called