Monday, April 6, 2015

Great Dollhouses - Rainham Hall

Doting dad finally finishes building his daughter an amazing dolls house - after 35 years!   Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2607688/Doting-father-finally-finishes-building-INCREDIBLE-dolls-house-complete-electric-lights-ipod-powered-music-room-little-girl-grown-took-35-years.html#ixzz3WZXeyTfU  Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Geoffrey Walkley spent 35 years building this mammoth Queen Anne dollhouse. It has 13 rooms, working lights, smoking chimneys. The dollhouse is based on the 18th century Rainham Hall, which took 2 years to build. A remote controls the individually wired light switches, six of the 14 chimneys are linked to a smoke generator, both front and back doors have a doorbell, while in a modern twist, the home includes an iPad Nano which powers the speaker in the music room. The following is part of a feature in the London Daily Mail. 

"Sarah Walkley, now aged 40, was five years old when she asked her father for the doll's house on Christmas Eve 1978. 

'My mum was tucking me in and I said I wanted a doll's house from Father Christmas,' explains Sarah.'She said he had packed his sleigh and left the Arctic but she went downstairs and mentioned it to my dad and he said he was going to build one.'

Devoted father Geoffrey agreed but came up with a blueprint so ambitious, Sarah says she began to lose hope of ever seeing it finished."

No need for haste, right?

Susan Downing

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