Mending Dolls, Teddies and Hearts At Sydney Doll Hospital

Geoff Chapman, 67 is "surgeon-in-chief" at the family-run business his father started more than a century ago. The Doll Hospital in Sydney, Australia has restored more than three million dolls, teddy bears, rocking horses and wheeled toys over the past 101 years.



"We've had clowns as big as a person, and a 12-foot (4m) crocodile - plush - not real," Chapman joked, noting that "the most common problem usually is the hair and the eyes".

During the war years when new toys were not available they had 70 staff and six workrooms. Today the Doll Hospital has up to 12 staff, some of whom work remotely, and handles up to 200 dolls and toys a month.

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