The B&B owner’s collection of 1000+ dolls is impressive, but some may haunt your dreams

A UK seaside B&B owner is delighting guests by showing off his collection of over 1,000 dolls.

Martin Scott Price, 67, has been collecting dolls since he was just 5 years old.

Now, Martin travels the country giving outdoor shows, entertaining children and adults alike with his collection.

It all started when his cousin gave him Punch and Judy glove puppets, which are now over a century old.

Martin has a basement filled with over 1,000 dolls under his guest house in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, including an original Sooty Bear and a Pinocchio replica.

“When they come down to see the collection, they go, ‘Wow, I’ve never seen so many dolls together,'” Martin said.

“I don’t think there is another doll museum in the country that has so many dolls.”

The 67-year-old added: “Obviously one day I will retire, which would be nice, but I don’t have a date.

“I would like to keep the whole collection together to put it either in a purpose-built, council-owned site or something like that, or even somewhere else in the country.

“It’s a shame to sell her as an individual doll,” Martin continued, noting that she has no family to leave her to.

“Because it’s such a massive collection, it’s really historic and interesting, so I’d really like it to go somewhere in my retirement.

“So after my death, it would actually be sold,” he continued. “It would be nice to keep it as a collection somewhere.â€

Martin also has French marionettes, automatons and other magician’s props – some of which he uses when he travels around the country to put on outdoor shows.

His favorite puppet is the crocodile, which he uses in his show.

“A little sequence I have in my puppet show, when the crocodile comes to eat the sausages from the pan, he accidentally, but on purpose, drops the sausages on the floor,” he revealed.

“I say, ‘Oh dear, he got the sausages thrown.’ Everyone thinks it’s true — the adults laugh and the kids go, ‘Oh, I think we’ll have to get them.’

“As they put them back in the pan, the crocodile comes out and goes ‘screaming,’ and they run a mile, sometimes screaming and sometimes bursting into tears.

“That’s a great thing” and the parents just laugh their heads off.