Cottage Collection June 2013

£1.50 From Concept to Cottage

1. Each and every Lilliput Lane miniature is completely hand crafted by our skilled artists in Langholm, in the borders of Scotland.

2. The cottages are based on real buildings and many collectors enjoy touring the country lanes in search of the actual houses.

3. From photographs, the internet and sketches, up to forty different processes then follow to produce a complex series of moulds from the original sculpture. There is no room for error, as the original wax sculpture is lost during the the process!

4. Every tile, slate and flower is individually applied by hand to build up the different textures and details.

5. Flexible silicone-rubber moulds are used to cast faithful replicas of the wax original in a specially licensed material called Amorphite™. Once this has set, the moulds can then be carefully peeled away to reveal every last detail on the cast model. 2 6. After being sealed and dried once again, the model passes to one of our painters.

7. Up to thirty different colourways can be tried and checked for authenticity before a master version is chosen for each cottage.

8. Every skilled painter has to match each of the models they paint to the master version, to ensure that each is consistent.

9. Finally, cottages are baized and labelled, before a final quality check ensures that they leave Lilliput Lane in perfect condition.

No seconds are ever kept; if they do not pass our strict quality checks, then they are destroyed. Welcome Welcome to the new Lilliput Lane catalogue… this launch sees a wealth of new buildings being added to our Collection reflecting the vernacular heritage and distinct architectural style from all regions of our nation.

Highlights include The Harbour, inspired by two former Cornish fishermen’s cottages, now a harbourside fish restaurant in Port Isaac and a popular tourist destination and film location. Mousehole Harbour Office, located in the North Cliff area of Mousehole, is a pretty Cornish fishing village famous for its Christmas lights, Bawcock’s Eve tradition and Stargazy Pie. Harrogate Pump Room is an ornate building, built in 1842 to provide shelter to the thousands of people who came to take the medicinal waters from the Old Sulphur Wells in Low Harrogate.

The new launches in our Full Steam Ahead Collection are four essential village buildings for model railway displays — a Fish & Chip Shop and a pub called The Kings Arms, which are both corner buildings, perfect for building scenes and also a Tudor farmhouse and a farm building. All four new items are available as either prepainted or paint-your-own versions.

And of course, each Lilliput Lane model is hand sculpted and entirely hand crafted and painted in the company’s studios in the Scottish Borders.

Britain’s Heritage Castles™ 3

L3634 CARDIFF CASTLE KEEP CARDIFF, WALES Height: 5.5cm Length: 5.0cm Situated in the heart of Wales’ capital city, Cardiff’s magnificent castle retains this twelve-sided keep atop its earth mound. A wonderful example of a Norman Shell Keep, it replaced a former wooden keep which was built after the Norman Conquest. Join The Collectors’ Club… By becoming an official collector you can learn more about your collection and further add to it by receiving exclusive cottages unavailable anywhere else; you can go beyond the models themselves, and learn more about their subjects, inspirations and the stories behind them.

By joining the Lilliput Lane Collectors’ Club you can enjoy a whole range of exclusive Free when you join benefits from glossy magazines to free cottages, and immerse yourself fully in the world of Lilliput Lane. Benefits include:

• Your chance to purchase 4 exclusive cottages

• A free cottage when you join or renew your membership

• A quarterly, full-colour magazine sent to you — Gulliver’s World

• Invitations to special events in your L3627 An apple a day area and to the Annual Fair 2013/2014 Club Symbol of membership HAMPSHIRE, MIDDLE ENGLAND Height: 5.5cm Length: 7.0cm This delightful T-shaped cottage from Vernham Dean dates from the • Loyalty rewards for continuous seventeenth century and retains its original exposed timber-framed gables. The flint and brick dressings were added during the eighteenth century. membership Note the apple cut into the thatch.

A team of specially trained Club staff are here to answer your emails, letters and phone calls about where you can buy our cottages, how we make them, where our inspiration comes from — anything you need to know!

If you haven’t already joined the Lilliput Lane Collectors’ Club, then why not do so today? If you would like some further information, give us a call, or contact us at the address opposite — we look forward to welcoming you! Exclusive to you

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L3526 Damson Cottage L3527 Cobnut Cottage 2013/2014 COLLECTORS’ CLUB SPECIAL EDITION 2013/2014 COLLECTORS’ CLUB SPECIAL EDITION HERTFORSHIRE, MIDDLE ENGLAND KENT, SOUTH EAST Height: 8.0cm Length: 10.5cm Height: 8.5cm Length: 11.0cm Celebrating nature’s bounty, this year’s club theme, the owner of this What could be more perfect to tie in with this year’s Club theme than pretty tiled cottage from Therfield has picked ripe damsons from the tree in gathering cobnuts (a cultivated variety of hazelnut) in the garden of this small the garden and turned them into delicious jams to sell at the garden gate. fifteenth-century, timber-framed Kentish Hall House from Chiddingstone?

Special Events 5 As a club member, you’ll receive special invitations to events held in your area. There is usually a painter and sometimes a sculptor in attendance, making these events a great opportunity to learn more about the processes of making your cottages.

This piece will be available at these special events which can also be personalised for you by the painter, thus making it extra special!

L3550 FIVE A DAY SALES PROMOTION SPECIAL EDITION STAFFORDSHIRE, MIDLANDS Height: 6.5cm Length: 7.0cm Linking in with this year’s Club theme, our Five a Day has been inspired by Stafford’s famous County Fruit Stores Wholesale Ltd, who have been supplying top class fruit and vegetables from the premises for over fifty years. For more information please contact: Lilliput Lane Collectors’ Club, Brunthill Road, Kingstown, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 0EN. Telephone: 01228 404022 or Email: [email protected] The British Collection, England

L3591 THE QUEEN’S HOUSE, TOWER OF LONDON LONDON, SOUTH EAST Height: 7.5cm Length: 5.0cm This building was built by Henry VIII around 1530 in a style unlike the rest of the Tower and which would come to be known as Tudor style — the timber framing, painted infilled panels and jettied stories being instantly recognisable to us today.

L3572 THE OLD PEPPER POT SOMERSET, SOUTH WEST Height: 7.5cm Length: 6.0cm One of Frome’s oldest buildings, this small shop on Cheap Street, Frome, is known by locals as The Pepper Pot — no doubt referring to its unusual shape, it having a curiously angled end elevation and a steeply pointed stone-tiled roof.

L3594 LAST ONE STANDING 6 DERBYSHIRE, MIDLANDS Height: 6.5cm Length: 9.0cm As well as being the only remaining thatch in Heath, this charming little cruck-framed dwelling is also the last one standing in a row of twelve on the village’s main road. Thankfully, this delightful Derbyshire village is now a L3592 GARSDALE STATION designated Conservation Area. CUMBRIA, NORTH WEST Height: 7.5cm Length: 10.0cm One of the highest stations on the famous Settle–Carlisle line and the only station on this stretch not to have been built in the typical Derby Gothic Style used by Midlands Railways and is based instead on the style of the waiting rooms.

L3593 MOUSEHOLE HARBOUR OFFICE CORNWALL, SOUTH WEST Height: 8.0cm Length: 6.0cm Inspired by the old harbour office located in the North Cliff area of Mousehole, known for its attractive listed buildings overlooking the harbour, clustered together as if for protection. Mousehole (pronounced mow-zul) is famous for its Christmas lights and Stargazy Pie.

L3590 THE HARBOUR CORNWALL, SOUTH WEST Height: 6.5cm Length: 9.0cm Two former fishermen’s cottages from Port Isaac, now a harbour-side fish restaurant popular with tourists. Port Isaac has been used as a film location for many film and TV productions, including Poldark, Nightmare Man and Doc Martin, starring Martin Clunes. L3631 HOLGATE WINDMILL YORKSHIRE, NORTH EAST & YORKSHIRE Height: 12.0cm Length: 6.5cm York’s last surviving windmill, situated on a roundabout. York once had many windmills serving the city, now it has just one. Thankfully, a committed group of local enthusiasts recently raised funds to restore it back to full working order. L3571 BRIDGE COTTAGE DEVON, SOUTH WEST Height: 7.0cm Length: 9.5cm This delightful riverside dwelling started out life as a pair of sturdy traditional Devon thatched cottages built from local granite rubble. It is situated in Buckland-in-the-Moor, in the Dartmoor National Park, famous for its breathtaking scenery and pretty cottages.

L3597 NO. 1 BRIDGE STREET, CHESTER CHESHIRE, NORTH WEST Height: 10.0cm Length: 7.5cm One of Chester’s most iconic buildings, as much loved by visitors as by locals, No. 1 Bridge Street was designed by Thomas Lockwood in the black-and-white revival style and built in 1888 for the First Duke of Westminster.

L3596 SMOKEY HOUSE SUFFOLK, EAST ANGLIA Height: 8.0cm Length: 9.0cm The angular thatched roof with pointed dormer windows sets this attractive red-brick cottage from the village of Reverse view Sudbourne well and truly in the vernacular region of East Anglia. It’s coloured in autumnal hues to complement the name of the cottage.

L3632 THE BLUEBELL WARWICKSHIRE, MIDLANDS Height: 8.0cm Length: 14.0cm This impressive 500-year-old timber-framed coaching inn from the Warwickshire market town of Henley-in-Arden dates back to the late fifteenth century and features a carriageway with rooms built above it to adjoin the two separate parts of the building. Christmas, Snowed Cottages

L3531 HARROGATE PUMP ROOM YORKSHIRE, NORTH EAST & YORKSHIRE Height: 6.5cm Length: 6.5cm Built to provide shelter for the thousands of people who came to Harrogate to take the medicinal waters, this L3599 BLANCHLAND POST ornate octagonal building was designed by Isaac Shutt NORTHUMBERLAND, NORTH EAST & YORKSHIRE for the newly-formed Improvement Commissioners and Height: 6.0cm Length: 8.0cm was completed in 1842. It is now a museum. This delightful little post office can be found in the Northumbrian village of Blanchland. Incorporated into the Abbey Gatehouse, it features an unusual white postbox, which is thought to be one of only three in the country.

8 L3592W GARSDALE STATION IN WINTER CUMBRIA, NORTH WEST Height: 7.0cm Length: 10.0cm One of the highest stations on the famous Settle–Carlisle line and the only station on this stretch not to have been built in the typical Derby Gothic Style used by Midlands Railways and is based instead on the style of the waiting rooms.

L3598 SPIRE HOUSE CUMBRIA, NORTH WEST Height: 8.0cm Length: 11.0cm The dressed pink sandstone, battlemented parapets and leaded spire would convince any passer-by that this was a church rather than a farm. This highly unusual farm from Blencow is one of three folly farms on the Greystoke Castle Estate. Mono Splash 2013 sees an exciting new concept from Lilliput Lane, adding a more contemporary feel to this timeless and classic brand loved around the world. Each model is hand sculpted and entirely hand crafted and painted in the company’s studios in the Scottish Borders.

L3668 GOTHIC GABLES KENT, SOUTH EAST Height: 7.0cm Length: 9.0cm

L3669 CHRISTMAS CALLERS OXFORDSHIRE, MIDDLE ENGLAND Height: 7.5cm Length: 10.5cm

L3667 DICKENSIAN CHRISTMAS (ILLUMINATED) YORKSHIRE, NORTH EAST & YORKSHIRE Height: 9.0cm Length: 7.5cm Illuminated using a 4.5-volt adaptor or three x AAA batteries. This is not a toy or children’s product. Intended for adults only. Created by Kevin Laffan way back in 1972 as afternoon entertainment, this popular soap was originally called ‘Emmerdale Farm’ and focused on the ups and downs of a farming family in the Yorkshire Dales. Today, with its prime-time evening slot, Emmerdale has a new name and plenty of new characters and storylines to keep its many followers around the world on the edge of their seats and laughing out loud, as only

L3604 DAVID’S SHOP YORKSHIRE, NORTH EAST & YORKSHIRE Height: 7.5cm Length: 7.5cm Situated on the corner of Main Street and Church Lane in Emmerdale, David’s Shop has been the main source for all of the villagers’ day-to-day needs since the village post office burnt down in January 2011.

L3605 THE CRICKET PAVILION YORKSHIRE, NORTH EAST & YORKSHIRE Height: 6.0cm Length: 9.0cm The Verney family donated a large cricket pavilion to the village in 1903. Since then, there has been a tradition of playing nearby villages at various sports (usually cricket) for the honour of winning the Butterworth Ball.

L3603 THE GRANGE B&B YORKSHIRE, NORTH EAST & YORKSHIRE Height: 7.5cm Length: 10.5cm Situated next to The Woolpack and owned by several Emmerdale residents over the years, including Alan Turner, Terry Woods and Louise Appleton. The B&B is currently run by Val and Eric Pollard and has recently gained a well-reputed restaurant.

L3602 TALL TREES YORKSHIRE, NORTH EAST & YORKSHIRE Height: 6.5cm Length: 10.5cm Noreen Bell lived here alone until her death in the Kings’ show home collapse in 2006. In 2007, Marlon and Donna Windsor-Dingle bought the house at auction, and although Donna has since left, Marlon remains in the cottage to this day. The next arrival at platform one is the Lilliput Lane Full Steam Ahead Collection, a series of buildings designed specifically with the railway enthusiast in mind! Now, model railway displays across the length and breadth of the nation can be enhanced by cottages and buildings scaled to size for N-Gauge sets by the manufacturers of the world’s favourite cottages.

L3566PY PAINT YOUR OWN L3566 TUDOR FARMHOUSE L3595PY PAINT YOUR OWN L3595 FARM BUILDING TUDOR FARMHOUSE Height: 5.5cm Length: 8.5cm FARM BUILDING Height: 6.0cm Length: 7.5cm Height: 5.5cm Length: 8.5cm Height: 6.0cm Length: 7.5cm

L3567PY PAINT YOUR OWN L3567 THE KINGS ARMS CORNER L3560PY PAINT YOUR OWN L3560 FISH & CHIP CORNER THE KINGS ARMS CORNER Height: 7.0cm Length: 8.5cm FISH & CHIP CORNER Height: 6.5cm Length: 8.0cm Height: 7.0cm Length: 8.5cm Height: 6.5cm Length: 8.0cm Where to find us

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