Salvage Yard Turned In To Halloween Mannequin Safari
A woman in Fulbeck in Lincolnshire has transformed a salvage yard into a creepy Halloween safari. Making use of 20,000 shop mannequins, Roz Edwards has created a terrifying mannequin cemetery.
The Metro reports that Roz owns thousands of dummies that she then restores and hires out to showbiz events or sells on. She has now taken the shop mannequins, many of which have missing limbs, to create the spooky attraction, and invited horror fans to take her ‘awful Halloween walk’.
One of the creepy displays shows several child mannequins surrounding a zombie mannequin in a blonde wig and a hockey mask, while other dummies have been coated in fake blood while holding up the heads of decapitated and dismembered mannequins.
Roz, who once hired a number of dummies to Lady Gaga for a music video, is charging Halloween thrill-seekers £23-a-head for the ten-minute walk, which also features a horror movie show.
She said: “They’re being sold for pairs because it is safer to walk around a mannequin graveyard with two people. We're already almost completely sold out. We’re really looking forward to a very scary Halloween.”
She added that it is ‘quite eerie’ when you drive through the yard, seeing mannequins without arms, or piles of heads all around.
Roz owns around 20,000 discarded mannequins, and can sometimes see them on for over £600 each. She regularly rents them to shows like X-Factor and Top Gear, but she has collected so many that the majority now form a mountain.
The 20-foot-tall mound that stretches for 150 feet was originally christened Dollywood, but is now called Mannakin Hall to sound posher, Roz joked. Photography, film and music video shoots have used the mannequins as a creepy backdrop.
Former retail consultant Roz, who once lived in Malawi for 10 years, found her business failing when the recession hit, in 2007. She explained that the recession forced many clothing businesses to close their doors, and many had a surplus of old mannequins that Roz collected from all around the country.
“I’m known as the mad mannequin woman and it just kind of grew until now I have over 20,000.”
Roz has also specialised in finding obscure and rare mannequins. She said that she has one named Audrey, after Audrey Hepburn. When Christie's, one of Roz’s clients, was auctioning off Hepburn's clothes, they needed the right-sized, 21-inch waist mannequin, to properly show off the movie star’s outfits.
She added that some sizes of mannequins are quite rare, for example, with most mannequins sized between 8 and 10, bigger ones, sized 16 to 18 for plus-sized fashion can be difficult to source, but Roz has a precious supply!
She has held previous events too, such as a ‘drive-thru heist’, where for £50 people could come and take as many mannequin parts as they can in 15 minutes.
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