Can anyone remember the dolls hospital on commonside?.. I was walking back from the co-op the other day and felt a bit nostalgic,
When I was a little girl I was scared of the dentist if I had been brave after a visit my father would take me to the dolls hospital and allow me to pick somthing. they used to sell eyeballs and voice boxes ect.. (for dolls of course) My last memory of the place was being the rather proud owner of a voice box, then sadly it closed and I was hartbroken anyone else remember this place?

Can't remember the one on Commonside (though I do remember a very nice baker's there that sold fantastic gingerbread men) but there was also a dolls hospital on Division Street - can't remember them selling all the bits and pieces though - I thought they just repaired dolls that people took in

I think there was a dolls hospital also on london road in the 50s anyone out there as old as me?

Hi Kath

I remember the dolls hospital on London road. We lived in Ecclesall road and it was a special treat to go to the dolls hospital in the 50's

Originally posted by honeyplanet
they used to sell eyeballs and voice boxes ect.. (for dolls of course)

How did this not frighten you to death as a small child? It sounds more like a dolls abbattoir! :gag:

K x

Originally posted by Kristian
How did this not frighten you to death as a small child? It sounds more like a dolls abbattoir! :gag:

K x
What can I say I was a twisted child :loopy: but seriously, my dad allways took great care to explain to me that they were just spare parts for broken dollys

Originally posted by honeyplanet
What can I say I was a twisted child :loopy: but seriously, my dad allways took great care to explain to me that they were just spare parts for broken dollys

I would have had to lie down in a dark room, I'm sure! :P I was quite a sensitive child though. How I developed into a twisted blak-humoured adult, I'm not certain!

K x

yes i remember the one down london rd.in the fiftys my dad took me there to get my doll fixed when i was about 6 i wondered what they did with all the bits.when my daughter had a doll in the 70s and its arms fell off i had to send it to liecester to get it fixed it was a tiny tears doll they even sent a new dummy and a bottle for it how many woild do that now????now my grandaughter plays with it its still got all its limbs.

I remember the one on Division st, they were always busy, mostly with arms and legs falling off because the elastic bands would break off inside, don't remember EYEBALLS, the older dolls didn't have movingeyeballs, just painted on ones, moving eyeballs came later on, no closing lids either back then.

Giving my age away now !

we have discussed the dolls hospital before on the forum, yes/no.

Originally posted by roughy101
we have discussed the dolls hospital before on the forum, yes/no.

Are we supposed to 'delete as applicable'?

Quote I think there was a dolls hospital also on london road in the 50s anyone out there as old as me?



I lived just off London road as a kid.The doll's hospital was there at least in the '40's.
A few doors up was the dancing school where it was always fun to look through the letter box at the tapdancing class doing their thing

I remember The Doll's Hospital on London Rd.It was called Merrills.It was also a toy shop.I lived 5 mins away on Franklin St back in the 50's and 60's.

Quote I remember The Doll's Hospital on London Rd.It was called Merrills.It was also a toy shop.I lived 5 mins away on Franklin St back in the 50's and 60's.

You have a better memory than me remembering it was Merrills.
I lived at 10 Mount St.My neighbour was Sylvia Hipkins.Not you I suppose?We were 1935 onwards

My surname was Jubb not Hipkins.

I don't remember seeing a dolls hospital as such, but I do remember when one of my favorite dolls broke and my mum took it to the dolls hospital - it was gone for about a week and I remember being distraught thinking it was gone forever! When I eventually got it back it was like Christmas all over again! The things that you never forget!!
This was in the seventies (don't know where the hospital was)

I remember the dolls hospital in commonside. I remember walking from south road, walkley with my eagle-eyed action man (with his missing foot) and my sindy, who was going to get a new arm. I would have been about 10 years old, maybe younger.

The place was great, why do things like that have to close down!!!