Doll. A wooden Dutch doll with a painted face and dressed as a nurse of the Thursford Workhouse. She is wearing a blue print dress, white apron and cap (missing). The doll was given to the donor as a Christmas present in 1898 by the inmates of the workhouse.
These wooden dolls were owned by Molly Butcher. It is likely that their clothes were made from scraps of workhouse uniform. These dolls are unique. We are lucky that Molly looked after her dolls so carefully before donating them to the museum in 1977. Nurses at Walsingham Union Workhouse wore uniform like this. The doll originally had a cap to match her apron.
