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Christchurch Priory Lilliput Lane
Released 2008
Special Limited Edition of 1000 pieces (avalible from 1st of December 2008) please pre-order if you would like this piece as a limited number will be avalible until Christmas 2008.
This is the web site of the official retailer of the Christchurch Priory Lilliput Lane and is exclusive to us. This Piece is NOT avalible anywhere else over the internet.
15% of the retail value (Exc. vat) will be donated to the Christchurch Prioy Conservation Trust
Length: 21cm, Width: 12cm, Height: 8cm size approx
(L3119)
Price: £51.03 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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The Banqueting House Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
2009 Annual Ornament
Set Amidst the glorious Studley royal water garden and surrounded by wildflower lawns
Size: Height 5cm
(L3166)
Price: £10.18 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Blencathra Lilliput Lane
Released 2008
(L3043)
Price: £9.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Cosy Cottage Lilliput Lane
New June 2009
L3218 Cosy Christmas
Essex
Height: 5.5cm Length: 4.5cm
Known as 'The Dutch Cottage' Rayleigh's
quaint and tiny (it's only twenty feet
across) timber-framed building with circular
thatched roof, is believed to be Britain's
oldest council House.
Currently out of stock but more due in 10th December 2009
Please order if you wish to have this piece before Christmas.
Price: £10.16 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Let it Snow
New June 2009
L3227 Let It Snow
Norfolk
Height: 6.0cm Length: 6.5cm
Our model depicts one of a pair of delightful timber framed cottage with red brick infill to be found on the edge of Woodbastwick's village green
Price: £16.96 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Christmas at Toseland Lilliput Lane
New June 2009
L3226 Christmas at Toseland
Cambridgeshire.
Height: 6.5cm Length: 9.0cm
Toseland's Parish Church of St Michael dates back to the mid-twelfth century
but underwent a major rebuild in 1873.
Thankfully, the magnificent arched Norman South Doorway remains intact.
Price: £20.39 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Bodnant Gardens Lilliput Lane
New June 2009
L3224 Bodnant Garden
Conwy, Wales
The former eighteenth-century pin mill
was rescued from demolition and carefully
rebuilt in its present site overlooking the long
rectangular pond canal at Bodnant Garden in 1939.
Price: £20.39 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Yuletide Treats
New June 2009
L3228 Yuletide Treats
Devon
Height: 8.5cm Length: 7.5cm
With its pyramid roof with gabled dormers topped with a louvred lantern and spire, our
version of Chagford's former Market House depicts a general store supplying Christmas
treats to the townnfolk.
Price: £20.39 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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The Nutshell
New June 2009
L3238 The Nutshell
Suffolk
Height: 8.5cm Length: 7.0cm
Measuring a mere fifteen feet by seven feet and with just one room per floor, it is hardly surprising that this charming establishment in Bury St Edmunds is one of Britain's smallest pubs.
Price: £20.39 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Bell Tower Cottage Lilliput Lane
New June 2009
L3232 Bell Tower Cottage
Durham
Height: 7.0cm Length: 10.5cm
The bell of this former nineteenth-century village school from Brancepeth beckoned the village's children to school right up until the mid-twentieth century when it was converted into three private dwellings
Price: £35.71 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Picture This Lilliput Lane
New June 2009
L3247 Picture This
Warwickshire
Height: 5.5cm Length: 6.0cm
This pretty thatched cottage from Honington was the winning entry of the 2008 Annual Fair Photographic Competition, so it is only fitting that we've included a camera poised to take the winning photo!
Price: £9.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Temple of the Four Winds Lilliput Lane
New June 2009.
L3249 Temple of the Four Winds
Buckinghamshire.
Height: 6.5cm Length: 9.0cm
This octagonal little gem from West Wycombe Park proves that not all follies were built merely for good looks, as it was built as afully functioning water pumping station for the park.
Price: £19.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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The Dingle
New June 2009
The Irish Collection
L3230 The Dingle
County Kerry, Ireland
Height: 6.0 Length: 9.5cm
A james Joyce 'Authentic Irish Pub' Award winner, The Dingle is the perfect place to soak up some real Irish atmosphere and you are guaranteed that the 'craic' will be good.
Price: £24.96 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Haystacks Lilliput Lane
Released 2008
(L3045)
Price: £9.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Little Tea Caddy Lilliput Lane
Hampshire
Height: 2"
Believing it would make a perfect place to serve teas, the owners of Cruckwell House, Upper Swanmore, rescued this eighteenth-century timber-framed staddlestone granary from a bonfire and moved it timber by timber in 1992.
(L2995)
Price: £9.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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The Whitby Kipper Lilliput Lane
Released 2008
(L3062)
Price: £9.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Bridge House Lilliput Lane
Cumbria
Height: 6.5cm
According to local legend, Bridge House was built over Stock Beck in an attempt to avoid paying land tax, but was more probably built in the sixteenth century by the owners of Ambleside Hall, to connect the Hall with orchards that lay on the other side of the stream.
(L2998)
Price: £12.96 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Hidden Cottages Lilliput Lane
Released 2008
(L3090)
Price: £14.96 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Holy Christmas Lilliput Lane
(L2946)
Price: £14.96 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Little Beehives Lilliput Lane
Released 2008
(L3094)
Price: £14.96 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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The Ugly House Lilliput Lane
Wales
Height: 5.0cm
Local legend tells how two outlaw brothers built the Ugly House, in 1475, using an ancient law which stated that if a house was built between sunset and the following sunrise then the builders could claim freehold - as long as it had walls, a roof and a smoking chimney!
(L3000)
Price: £14.96 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Brandy Butter Lilliput Lane
(L3048)
Price: £19.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Brassed Off Lilliput Lane
(L2972)
Price: £19.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Edradour Distillery Bonnie Laddie Lilliput Lane
(L2923)
Price: £19.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Helvellyn Lilliput Lane
Released 2008
(L3055)
Price: £19.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Home From Home Lilliput Lane
Released 2008
(L3111)
Price: £19.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Kellie Lodging Lilliput Lane
Released 2008
(L3115)
Price: £19.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Plas Mawr Lilliput Lane
Released 2008
(L3114)
Price: £19.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Sherburn Almshouses Lilliput Lane
(L2870)
Price: £19.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Home Brew Lilliput Lane
Height: 8 cm
Traditional oast houses with their cylindrical kilns were used in the 1800s for drying hops to make beers and ales. Later replaced by easier to control and construct square kilns, oast houses became a thing of the past.
Many oast houses still remain to this day, particularly in Kent. Many have been converted for other uses including garages - just like this one.
(L3079)
Price: £22.50 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Pippin Post Lilliput Lane
Released 2008
(L3107)
Price: £22.50 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Bakewell Lodge Lilliput Lane
Released 2008
(L3095)
Price: £26.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Gods Providence House Lilliput Lane
(L2821)
Price: £26.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Moreton Stores Lilliput Lane
Released 2008
(L3117)
Price: £26.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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To The Manor Born Lilliput Lane
Released 2008
(L3110)
Price: £32.01 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Vine And Roses Lilliput Lane
Dorset
Height: 8.5cm
A cottage in the pretty Dorset village of Puddletown was the inspiration for this beautiful thatched florist’s shop. Puddletown was immortalised as Weatherbury, by the nineteenth-century novelist, Thomas Hardy in Far From The Madding Crowd.
(L3028)
Price: £32.01 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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The Cow And Calf On Ilkley Moor Lilliput Lane
Released 2008
(L3058)
Price: £34.96 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Burnham Thorpe Rectory Lilliput Lane
(L2827)
Price: £42.01 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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The Miller & The Mariner Lilliput Lane
Lancashire
North West
Height: 11.0cm
This model has been inspired by two of Lytham St Anne’s favourite icons and truly captures the essence of this popular seaside town.
(L2934)
Price: £42.01 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Restful Retreat Lilliput Lane
Surrey
South East
Height: 10.0cm
Built in the nineteenth century and designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, this magnificent church in Godstone, featuring a bell tower and overhanging jetty, sits alongside a picturesque group of eight timber-framed almshouses.
(L2901)
Price: £46.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Christmas Fayre Lilliput Lane
Height: 10 cm
(L2950)
Price: £150.00 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Sunny Selworthy Lilliput Lane
Limited Edition Of 2,000
Somerset
15 cm High (6.5 ins) 25 cm Wide (9.5 ins) 19 cm Deep (7 ins)
In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Lilliput Lane Cottages we are delighted to return to the picturesque village of Selworthy in Somerset.This popular village, rebuilt in 1828 by local politician, Sir Thomas Acland of Killerton, has inspired many Lilliput Lane Cottages over the years, some of which are included again on this fabulous scene (Sweet Pea Cot, Porlock Down and Periwinkle Cottage).
(L3003)
Price: £175.00 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Big Ben - Anniversary Edition Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
Big Ben is actually the thirteen-ton hour bell inside this magnificent Victorian Gothic Revival fretted stone clock tower and is said to be named after the commissioner of works in charge of the re-building of the Palace of Westminster, better known as the Houses of Parliament.
Etched around the base of this special edition are some important dates linked to Big Ben: 1834, parliament was destroyed by fire and the new building commissioned; 1858, the Great Bell, nicknamed Big Ben, was cast at Whitechapel Bell Foundry; 1859, Big Ben was installed and the chimes rang out for the first time; and in 1923, Big Ben's chimes were broadcast on the radio for the first time at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve - a tradition that still takes place to this day.
Size: 23 cm High (9 ins) 8.5 cm Wide (3.3 ins) 9 cm Deep (3.5 ins)
(LL398 )
Price: £45.99 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Braywood Lodge Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
Oakley Green, as the name suggests, was an oak clearing in the ancient Windsor Forest used by drovers to graze their sheep. The village gradually grew up around this, thanks to its situation along the packhorse route from Reading to Windsor.
Built in 1869 for Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer, the Belgium Minister to the Royal Court, this timbered lodge on the Braywood Estate, was the lodge house to his impressive New Lodge. It owes its distinctive appearance to the band of darker brick running through its red brick walls, echoed in the hung tiles, which are laid in alternating double courses of orange and black. Other features include the pierced and carved bargeboards, decorative timbering and its unusual white fencing patterned with squares and crosses.
Size: 7 cm High (2.7 ins) 10 cm Wide (3.9 ins) 7.5 cm Deep (2.9 ins)
(LL409 )
Price: £32.70 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Fountains Abbey Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
With the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 the abbey ceased to function and eventually, in 1767, it was purchased (for £18,000) by William Aislabie, as an additional magnificent view from the Studley Water Garden that had been created by his father.
Maintained by English Heritage, Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, is a World Heritage Site owned by the National Trust. This beautiful Cistercian Abbey (founded in 1132 by thirteen exiled Benedictine Monks) has been sculpted by Lilliput Lane before, way back in 1994, when it was a considerably complicated piece to assemble, and had to be manufactured in thirteen pieces at that time! It formed the centrepiece of the USA exclusive, Studley Royal Collection.
Size: 11.5 cm High (4.5 ins) 20 cm Wide (7.8 ins) 15 cm Deep (5.9 ins)
(LL413)
Price: £71.48 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Granny's Summerhouse Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
This attractive Grade II Listed building can be found in the grounds of Charlecote Park, which was built in the 1550s by Sir Thomas Lucy and has remained the seat of the Lucy family for the last eight hundred year or more!
During that time it has enjoyed many famous connections, including Queen Elizabeth I (who stayed for two days in 1572), Capability Brown (who lanscaped the grounds), Nelson (who is believed to have slept in the ebony bed on display in the house), and the not-so-welcome William Shakespere, who is said to have been caught poaching deer (no wonder he ran off to London to seek fortune and fame!).
Built of brick, with rustic timbering, thatched roof and gorgeous stained glass windows, this summerhouse was built in the mid-nineteenth century for Lady Mary Elizabeth Lucy with the intention of being used as a summerhouse for her grandchildren - hence the name Granny's Summerhouse!
Size: 5.5 cm High (2.1 ns) 6.5 cm Wide (2.5 ins) 6.5 cm Deep (2.5 ins)
(LL401)
Price: £15.28 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Harbury Windmill Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
The name of Harbury is said to be derived from Hereburgh, a local female tribe chief of around 500BC. Built in the early ninteenth century, Harbury's old windmill fell into disuse in the early 1950s but has now been lovingly renovated, minus the sails, into a luxurious home near Stratford-upon-Avon.
Situated in the centre of Harbury, its round tapering six-storey tower is a fine example of a typical tower mill of the period. The lower section of the tower is built of regular limestone and the upper part of English bond brick. The cap originally revolved in the wind to turn four sails that would, in turn, have turned its millstones, right up until just before the First World War, when it was converted enabling it to be powered by steam, later oil, then electricity.
Size: 8.5 cm High (3.3 ins) 9 cm (3.5 ins) 7 cm Wide (2.7 ins)
(LL408)
Price: £27.54 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Home Of The Brontes Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
Veritable Mecca for admirers of the literary achievements of the Bronte family, Haworth Parsonage is now a museum and is situated at the top of the town's Main Street. This is the second time that this wonderful Georgian building has been sculpted; the first was back in 1985 (Bronte Parsonage).
The Brontes moved from Thornton to Haworth Parsonage in 1820 where their father, Patrick Bronte, was to serve the parish until the end of his days. Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights, and Jane's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall were all written here - the authors no doubt being inspired by the wild, bleak landscape around them and the somewhat austere apperance of their home. The impressive building was built in the late 1770s from dark dressed millstone grit with a stone slate roof. The wing on the right is a later addition, after the Brontes' time here.
Sizes: 6 cm High (2.3 ins) 8.5 cm Wide (3.3 ins) 6.5 cm Deep (2.5 ins)
(L3173)
Price: £22.99 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Ladies Lodge Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
This delightful octagonal timber-framed lodge was built sometime between the early and mid nineteenth century and as well as its unusual shape, it has many other features worthy of a mention: the thin studded timber frame has painted white brick 'noggin' infill, there are rusticated tree trunks supporting the roof (although they are decorative rather than structural!), a rather attractive open veranda offers a sheltered place to rest, and the lovely gabled open porch over the front door.
Given its small size, it may come as a surprise to discover that this charming building was actually used as a school for girl during part of the nineteenth century, which is why this version is called Ladies's Lodge!
Size: 5.5 cm High (2.1 ins) 6 cm Wide (2.3 ins) 5 cm Deep (2 ins)
(L3168)
Price: £15.28 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Lilac Cottage Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
Found in Tiverton, this charming pair of red brick mirror-image residences with honeycomb lozenge windows and large central shared chimneystack - which gives the impression on first glance that this is one large house rather than two - is typical of the many delightful Peckforton Estae cottages to be found in the area.
John Tollemache, First Baron Tollemache, purchased the estate in the mid-1840s and he had many farms and houses built to house estate workers, as well as the nearby mock medieval castle mansion, Peckforton Castle.
Size: 7 cm High (2.7 ins) 9 cm Wide (3.5 ins) 6 cm Deep (2.3 ins)
(L3182)
Price: £22.99 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Little Moreton Hall 2009 Anniversary Cottages Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
This grand residence owes its creation, and name, to Sir Richard de Moreton, who inherited the land and decided to build a new home here. He had it built in the latest style of the day, i.e. an elaborate wooden frame of the finest local oak with wattle and daub infill, all resting on stone footings (there were no foundations in those times!).
Moreton's wealth is evident in the intricacy of the patterns created by the diagonal studwork; decorative rather than functional its series of zigzagging chevrons is breathtaking. The Great Hall and east wing both date to around 1450, with the porch and west wing being added around 1480, at which time the remarkably long gallery - stretching across most of the top floor - was added to. The house is completely surrounded by a moat, which is, in turn, surrounded by beatuiful gardens.
Size: 8.5 cm High (3.3 ins) 14 cm Wide (5.5 ins) 10.5 cm Deep (4.1 ins)
(L3187)
Price: £71.48 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Millbeck Smithy Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
With its whitewashed slate rubble walls and slate roof with round slate chimneys, this little smithy dates back to the early eighteenth century and is a real Lakeland architectural gem!
This lovely little building can be found at the bottom of a garden in the beautiful tiny village of Millbeck - not many people can claim to have a former blacksmith's shop at the bottom of their garden! Now a peaceful, tranquil area, it was once a hive of industry, as during the late nineteenth century woollen mills at Applethwaite and Millbeck prodeced blankets, bonnets and caps that were sold all over the world!
Size: 5 cm High (2 ins) 5.5 cm Wide (2.1 ins) 4 cm Deep (1.6 ins)
(L3164)
Price: £10.18 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Mothers World Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
This beautiful cottage was once the home of Roald Dahl's mother, Sofie Dahl, and is mentioned in the famous children's author's autobiography, Going Solo, where he records returning home after World War Two, only to find that she had moved to the countryside to escape the bombing.
'She was a great teller of tales...' he once said of his mother 'a rock, a real rock, always on your side whatever you'd done. It gave me a tremendous feeling of security'. But perhaps his best tribute to her was that he based the 'grandmother' character in The Witches on her!
Size: 6.5 cm High (2.5 ins) 10 cm Wide (3.9 ins) 6.5 cm Deep (2.5 ins)
(L3177 )
Price: £22.99 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Mow Cop Castle 2009 Anniversary Cottages Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
Built of local millstone grit, this impressice Grade-II-Listed castle is not all that it appears to be at first sight. It is in fact a folly, built in 1754 as a summerhouse for the Wilbraham family of Rode Hall, Cheshire, and therefore not really a castle at all!
When Randle Wilbraham built his romantic ruin on the skylines, however, he did not take into account the fact that it was built on the county boundaries and that half lay in Staffordshire and half in Cheshire. This led to neighbouring landowners, the Sheyds, succesfully claiming part ownership of the folly though the courts, on the proviso that they shared the maintenance costs and allowed public access. It is now owned by the National Trust.
The perfect accompaniment to Moreton Hall, Chesire (the first 2009 Anniversary Cottage), which is only a few miles away from Mow Cop Castle
Size: 7.5 cm High (2.9 ins) 9.5 cm Wide (3.7 ins) 7 cm Deep (2.7 ins)
(L3178)
Price: £27.54 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Peasants Cottage Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
With its timber frame and noggin brick infill, decorative bargeboarding and thatched roof, its hard to imagine that this idyllic cottage was once a humble peasants' home - in fact much of the picturesque village of Osmaston was built around the mid 1800s as a major redevelopment scheme to provide housing for the estate workers of Osmaston Manor, which is why it's referred to as an estate village.
Osmsaton Manor was built by Francis Wright, of the family of Nottingham bankerswhose fortune was made through Butterfly Ironworks near Ripley, Derbyshire - the builders of St. Pancras Station, no less! This model depicts a nostalgic scene of one estate labourer who, after a hard day's work, has returned home, left his boots and tools outside and retired inside for a warm meal and a rest in front of the cosy fire.
Size: 4.5 cm High (1.8 ins) 5.5 cm Wide (2.1 ins) 4.5 cm Deep (1.8 ins)
(L3165)
Price: £10.18 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Pixie House Boscastle Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
Perhaps the most photographed building in Boscastle, this wonderful Grade-II-Listed building was originally built (in the early 1800s) as a stable, but today it serves two purposes, both of which are very much appreciated by eager tourists!
Famed for its wobbly roofline, The Pixie House (Harbour Lights) suffered terribly from the floods of 2004 that devastated the village. Thankfully, it was rebuilt and so remains a Mecca for visitors from near and far - all of whom should take care, however, not to upset the Pixies. Clad in green, these old, wizened little people with red hair and pointed ears enjoy playing tricks and pranks, and are renowned for misleading travellers; and he who has not the foresight to carry a wicken-cross, or piece of bread, can only escape by turning his coat inside out - you have been warned!
size: 4.5 cm High (1.8 ins) 7 cm Wide (2.7 ins) 5 cm Deep (2 ins)
(L3169)
Price: £15.28 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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The Hare and Hounds Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
Limited Edition of 995 pieces
This wonderful gatehouse has been inspired by Brockenhurst Park's North Lodge, which was designed and built (along with the House) in the French Renaissance style in 1869 by T H Wyatt, a prolific and eminent Victorian architect.
The brick and stone dressings, slate roof and lead ridges are common enough features of the time, but it is the splendid Trapezoidal French roof and smaller French ogee roof that mke a striking statement, even to this day! The stone sculptures of hunting dogs and the little hare have been added to this model to represent the heritage of the surrounding New Forest, which was created by William the Conqueror as his own personal hunting ground.
Size: 9.5 cm High (3.7 ins) 12 cm Wide (4.7 ins) 9.5 cm Deep (3.7 ins)
(L3183)
Price: £35.72 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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The Pagoda Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
The unusual chinese building with a dramatic roof with upturned edges was built as a folly for the third Duke of Buccleuch hence the thistle emblem carved into the leaded roof
Size: Height 7cm Length 9.5cm
(L3223)
Price: £20.39 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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The Plot Room Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
The manor of Ashby St Ledgers was the home of the Catesbys and in the early 1600s, a certain Robert Catesby spent much time visiting his widowed mother here.
Today, road signs state that the narrow road into the tiny village is a 'gated road' and, although there are no gates now, this gives some indication as to how secluded this location once was. The perfect place for conspirators to meet in secrecy and plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in fact, for this half-timbered gatehouse to the manor is reputed to be the meeting place used by the Gunpowder Plotters in 1605 - which explains why this little 'plot room' includes barrels of gunpowder!
Can you spot the telescope? Well, another person, held on suspicion of being involved but later released, was one Thomas Harriot, who is also known as the first man to attempt to map the moon.
Size: 6 cm High (2.3 ins) 6 cm Wide (2.3 ins) 5 cm Deep (2 ins)
(L3070)
Price: £15.28 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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The Royal Observatory Edinburgh Lilliput Lane
New For 2009
2009 is the International Year of Astronomy, so, what better time to produce this magnificent building, which houses the UK Astronomy Technology Centre, where state-of-the-art astronomical insturments and computer software are designed?
Situated high up on Blackford Hill, three miles south of the city centre, the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh is a magnificent sight to behold, and has been described as a Graeco-Roman fantasy. Visitors can view a number of exhibits on modern astronomy, optics and space, as well as enjoying spectacular panoramic views of the city. This is only part of the impressive 180-feet-long sandstone building built in 1892-3 by W W Robertson - an octagonal tower surmounted by its distinguished weathered copper cylindrical telescopic housings, plus a few of the many astronomical references included in the external decoration.
Size: 7.5 cm High (2.9 ins) 8.5 cm Wide (3.3 ins) 6.5 cm Deep (2.5 ins)
(L3172)
Price: £20.39 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Tollemache Arms Lilliput Lane
New 2009
Situated on a hill above the Ise Valley, the quiet village of Harrington (recorded as Arintone in the Domesdsay Book) benefits from spectacular views of the surrounding rolling countryside, which is perhaps why so many people frequent this charming old pub during the summer months, when excellent food and ale is served in the gardens with such fantastic views on offer!
Serving visitors since 1547, this wonderful inn was named after the Reverend Hugh Tollemache, the rector of Harrington for fifty-eight years who, in 1890 died at the grand old age of eighty-seven and is buried in the local churchyard. It may seem somewhat unusual to name a pub after a man of God, but it was the brainchild of his successor, the Reverend Atkins, who bought the pub in the 1800s and closed it on Sundays in an attempt to boost his church's attendance.
Size: 7 cm High (2.7 ins) 8.5 cm Wide (3.3 ins) 7.5 cm Deep (2.9 ins)
(L3179)
Price: £27.54 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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