1465 – Doll: Chimney doll

Physical description:

Large fabric doll representing an elderly lady, wearing a black dress with a white apron and a lace petticoat, and holding a small silver tankard.

Museum classification:

Protection

Size:

490x215x70

Information:

This doll was found in the chimney of a cottage in Padstow in the 1990s. Before that in the 1950s, she was the guardian of the Hole in the Wall pub in Bodmin, where she was known as Mother Shipton, after the Yorkshire witch.

 

LK Devereux also donated a card she had created inspired by the Chimney Poppet

Resource:

Object

Materials:

Fabric, metal

Copyright ownership:

Treetrunk Ltd.

This doll was found in the chimney of a cottage in Padstow in the 1990s. Before that in the 1950s, she was the guardian of the Hole in the Wall pub in Bodmin, where she was known as Mother Shipton, after the Yorkshire witch.

 

LK Devereux also donated a card she had created inspired by the Chimney Poppet