THE ‘resident’ dolls house lady at St Margaret’s Hospice charity shop in Minehead has gone into the retail trade!

Marian Matthews’ latest offering is a beautiful hand-built vintage house which is also a shop.

The house, the fourth which dolls house enthusiast Marian has created to raise money for the hospice, is the result of just five frantic weeks of work.

She saw it advertised in the Free Press in November. A hasty meeting was arranged on a forecourt in Minehead High Street, the seller very kindly reduced the price and the house cum shop was on its way to Marian’s workshop.

The house and is on display for sale at the Minehead shop and the amount paid will help the hospice’s vital service for terminally ill people and their families.