When Alison Gunn-Robson was having a tough time at school, her aunt’s 128-year-old ventriloquist dummy George helped her cope.
George – who appears on The Repair Shop on Wednesday night –was made in the late 1890s and worked in London music halls. He came to Alison’s family when his owner died and her aunt inherited him.
Alison, 73, recalls: “She didn’t like him. He gave her the creepies. She asked my mother when I was 11, ‘Do you think Alison would like this thing?’ Me and George have been inseparable since.”
