Inside the toy hospital saving Scotland's Barbies 👇
The Sunday National took a trip to the Leith Toy Hospital to find out.A hammock bulging with plastic legs, arms, heads and torsos is suspended from the ceiling of the workshop. Porcelain and rubber baby dolls in various states of decapitation sit upon shelves observing Charlotte Abbott, manager of the doll department, as she meticulously mends the fractures, bite marks and broken limbs that toys are so often subject to.
“We’ve literally had dolls come into the studio in pieces or been handed teddy bears shredded by dogs.“People often think there’s absolutely no hope of saving them but it’s very rare that we can’t do anything.” “Nowadays, children’s toys are so cheap that people aren’t willing to pay much money to have them repaired,” said Abbott.“But with the older generation you often find that it was the only doll they had as a child because toys were much more expensive.
Indeed, tumbled out from a bag of miscellaneous dolls comes one resembling Brooke Shields and another slightly manic looking Marie Osmond. But aside from the practical benefits, there’s also a certain magic inherent in returning lost lustre to toys.
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