No small joy

Flora Gill Jacobs calls herself "a frustrated interior designer. I would have loved to be an architect, but I couldn't do the arithmetic".

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Flora shown at her museum.
Afrench parlour, a german kitchen, an Indian zoo with cages evoking the Taj Mahal.... For decades, Flora Jacobs has been acquiring and renovating miniature dwellings, and has a formidable collection of dolls' houses and toys. Now, financial hardship has forced her to put her 'wealth' under the hammer, says Annie Groer

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