Every listing was read from the business’s own public pages rather than from speaking to them, so check before you rely on it.

The Plush Hospital
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Dolls, not just soft toys

Doll repair and restoration

40 of the 77 businesses we have read in the United Kingdom work on dolls, and 34 of those call themselves a doll hospital. Sorted by where they are, because that is usually the question.

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What we know and what we do not

Everybody here either calls themselves a doll hospital or names dolls in their own description of what they do. Nobody has been asked. We have not checked whether they take hard-bodied dolls, porcelain, wigs or repainting, and those are the jobs most likely to get a no.

Four businesses in the corpus say in writing that they will not take dolls. They are not on this page.

37 that say where they are

3 that do not say where they are

Not hidden, just not placeable. Several of these take work by post from anywhere, so a missing town is not the same as a missing option.

Questions people ask

How many doll repairers are there in the United Kingdom?
We hold 40 businesses in the United Kingdom that work on dolls, out of 77 we have read in total. 34 of them call themselves a doll hospital. 37 say where they are and 9 say you can hand the doll over in person rather than posting it.
Is a doll hospital different from a soft toy repairer?
Often the same person. Most of the businesses on this page take both, which is why they turn up on the rest of this site too. The jobs that genuinely differ are hard-bodied and porcelain dolls, wigs, and painted faces, and those are the ones worth asking about before you send anything.
Will they say what it costs?
Usually not up front. Across all 77 businesses we have read in the United Kingdom, almost none publish a price for doll work, and exactly one business in the whole corpus publishes an hourly rate. Expect to be quoted after they have seen it.