Barbara Hadlow from Surrey has created a dolls' house of the first
nursery she worked in, after spending more than 50 years looking after
children.
nursery she worked in, after spending more than 50 years looking after
children.
The 74-year-old started crafting the four-foot-high creation ten years ago to remember Hitchen Hatch Residential Nursery, where she worked from the age of 16.
After 30 years as a childcare practitioner, Miss Hadlow wrote a book, Making a Difference - a lifetime in childcare, about the 'vanished world of the residential nursery', then worked in childminding and fostering.
The miniature house has eight rooms and includes doors, windows and staircases added by Miss Hadlow, who also knitted jumpers for the doll children.
She says of her dolls' house, 'Sometimes in the morning, I look at it and the sun is shining: it just reminds me of how it was in 1956.'
