The Dollywood Times

Hellen Back at the Absolut Masquerade promotional event at Maverik Showrooms, London E2 – October 2008. Mannequin styled by Sophia Hedblom. Read more on the event here.

2 of our most famous male mannequins recently took part in the Only Fools and Horses Convention in Maidstone organised by OnlyFools.Net. The mannequins were dressed up in those famous Batman and Robin costumes that Del Boy (Sir David Jason) and Rodney Trotter (Nicholas Lindhurst) wore in one of the episodes of Britains most popular sitcom, Only Fools and Horses. Can you guess which mannequins were used?! Thanks to Perry for hiring out the mannequins and sending these pictures to us!

And do you recognise this guy? He was on the X Factor doing the dodgy MJ impression – David.

These are no ordinary mannequins! They were hired from Mannakin Ltd and used in key pieces film for Marks & Spencers web campaign. Have a look at the fantastic film and keep your eyes out for our mannequins in the background.

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We recently sold Bruce, Jim Warrington, Harvey, Simon and Darren to Stratford on Avon Armouries, a place that’s new and exciting for children! See their website by clicking below and we will update this post with photo’s just as soon as we have them!

Article from the Newark Advertiser, courtesy of Barbara Ward.

New Series Starts Wednesday 30 July at 9pm.

Mannakin Ltd has supplied mannequins for the new series of Trinny & Susannah Undress the Nation. Roz Mita, Director of Mannakin Ltd says, “It is great to see our mannequins on such a popular show. The mannequins are really getting about this year, attending celebrity dress auctions in London and featuring on an album cover, as well as appearing in the first and final episodes of Trinny & Susannah Undress the Nation. It is not all about shop windows!”

Mannakin offers a range of models for sale and hire, for parties, photo shoots and events as well as retail use. Unusually, the business also has a mannequin liquidation and recycling service, to help remedy the issue of mannequin dumping in landfill. With mannequins named after characters like John Barrowman’s Captain Jack or famous names including Mr Humphries, plus a ‘casualty’ range of reconstructed low cost dummies, Mannakin offers a personal and inspired service.

To find out about mannequin sales and hire, visit www.manakin.co.uk where the price displayed includes delivery, collection and VAT, or call 01636 610033 or 07757 513 584.

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Notes to Editors

1. For media enquiries, call Roz Mita on 07757 513584 or email press@mannakin.co.uk
2. About Mannakin: We hire, sell and restore mannequins for a wide variety of situations in TV, Fashion and Media. From a 70’s classic shop dummy, through such beauties created by the leading manufacturers in mannequins such as Rootstein & Hindsgaul; to the modern simplistic display bust; we have almost every kind of mannequin for you to hire or buy. We can repair damaged mannequins and arrange full customisation. We can deliver by overnight courier or in person. Well known clients include ITV and Woman and Home magazine. Mannakin has grown rapidly over the last year, moving from being a home based business to having a large warehouse where you can view the dummies and additional space for photo shoots.
3. Mannakin, Unit 1, Farrar Close, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 2EQ, United Kingdom Tel: 01636 610033 | Mob: 07757 513584
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James Brown, famously Kate Moss’ hairdresser hired our female display busts for a charity dress auction in London to raise money for Cancer Research. Dresses were donated by famous names such as Kylie Minogue, Lily Allen, Princess Beatrice and Yasmin Le Bon to name just a few.

Here are some photo’s of the display. The event took place in February 2008.

In Your Room, the highly anticipated Yazoo 4-disc box set is now available. The box set features remastered and 5.1 mixes of both Yazoo’s classic albums Upstairs At Eric’s and You And Me Both, b-sides and remixes. The package also contains a 64-page booklet.

Nicko, Mr Humphries and Dangerous Dave all feature on the front of the booklet. To say they are ecstatic with this new found stardom would be an understatement!

Mannakin client Joe Lyons, based in Hastings is the photographer.

Roz Mita added, ‘We were very excited to have worked with Joe on this project and even more delighted that 3 of our guys ended up on the front page of the booklet. A real achievement for Mannakin.’

Fresh back from his assignment in Sonning, Berkshire – Captain Jack had to be rushed into Dollby City for an emergency hand operation. He had been attending a scarecrow competition dressed as Elvis.

More than 75 scarecrows took part in the trail at the weekend, including those dressed as Noddy and Big Ears, St Trinian’s schoolgirls, a couch potato, Bill Oddie and a traffic warden. More than £10,000 was raised by the event and the money will go towards specialist equipment for the local primary school, internal décor for St Andrew’s Church and safety fencing for the village playground.

His injuries happened after he fell over. Christine Andrews, who had hired him as part of the scarecrow competition commented, ‘Captain Jack was dressed as an Elvis scarecrow and the title was ‘Elvis Isn’t Dead’, but he looked it when he fell over!’

Captain Jack was unable to comment, but his publicist reported that he had really enjoyed this role and wanted his fans to know that it was an accidental falling over and not a result of recent rumours about his alleged tomfoolery.

Read the article from Get Reading and see more photo’s from the event.

We can all stop guessing now as to who it is behind the crash helmet. The Stig, who appeared at a recent conference with Integra Office Solutions, pictured here with Meryl James is none other than our Harvey!