Lilliput Lane Limited Editions
Large and Limited Editions Lilliput Lane
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Goathland Station L3354
LIMITED EDITION OF 850
NORTH YORKSHIRE, NORTH EAST & YORKSHIRE
Height: 9.5cm Length: 18.0cm
This delightful station serving the North Yorkshire
Moors Railway is famous as being the film location for
Hogwarts Express 'Hogsmeade' Station in the Harry
Potter films. Fans of the TV series Heartbeat will also
recognise it as 'Aidensfield'. Such fame !
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LL3353 Lilliput Lane The Buck & The Doe | $66.00
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L3353 The Buck & The Doe (LE: 995)
Clipstone, Nottinghamshire
9 cm High (3.5 ins) 12 cm Wide (4.7 ins) 8.5 cm Deep (3.3 ins)
Archway Lodge was built in 1842 for the Fourth Duke of Portland using stone from his quarries at Mansfield Woodhouse; the very stone that he had offered for the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament after they were destroyed by fire in 1835. However, after the foundations and the lower part of the new parliament buildings were completed it was felt that the stone was not durable enough, so the Duke built this impressive gothic lodge to prove them wrong.
It closely resembles Worksop Priory's gatehouse, and was used as a hunting lodge with ground floor accommodation for two estate workers on either side of the carriage archway and a large schoolroom above for up to thirty underprivileged children from the Clipstone and Welbeck Estates.
In homage to the legends of the surrounding Sherwood Forest, the niches contain statues of Robin Hood and friends.
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LL2935 Lilliput Lane Clovelly | $370.00
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Clovelly by Lilliput Lane, model LL2935
Limited Edition of 2,000
Devon, South West - 13.5 cm (H), 21.5 cm (L)
By Victorian tines Clovelly's precipitous narrow streets were so famous that Charles Dickens based his 'A Message from the Sea' here, in which he renamed it 'Steepways'!
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L3217 The Crumplehorn Inn, Polperro (LE: 850)
Polperro, Cornwall
Sculpted by Gary Kerkhoff, this fabulous Limited Edition is a study of one of Polperro's most popular and famous inns - with what can only be described as a most unusual name! The present complex is known as Crumplehorn Mill and consists of an old corn mill (Killigarth Mill), which was in use until the 1950s, and an old farm (Crumplehorn Farm) in the hamlet of Crumplehorn, and can be found just north of Polperro.
The most exciting episode of the Inn's long history has to be during the Elizabethan period, when it was used as a counting house for privateers. These were times when privateering was a legal, almost respectable, occupation whereby Spanish and French ships could be plundered as long as the proceeds were split with the Crown! Lord Burleigh, The Queen's Treasury Officer, was responsible for 'counting' the ship's cargo before taking the Crown's share away.
Not surprisingly this was a very good way to boost the coffers of the treasury, helping to fund Elizabeth I's rapidly growing Naval Fleet, and many a ship's captain became very rich in the enterprise too! When privateering became outlawed, smuggling became rife and one famous character was based at this very mill. Zephaniah Job, who was also known as the 'Smuggler's Banker' because he paid for legal advice and sent money to smugglers in prison. Zephaniah was so powerful he even issued his own banknotes, one of which can be viewed on display at Truro Museum.
Tourists come from all over the world to this area to take in the breathtaking scenery, enjoy the old tales of smuggling and privateering, partake of some delicious food and ale, or simply to marvel at the power and force of the mill's restored overshot waterwheel as it thunders round and round. These visitors cannot bring their cars down into the village and so the sight of the colourful 'horse buses' just like the one Gary has included in his scene, are still a very familiar sight today.
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Goldhill by Lilliput Lane, model LL2856
Limited Edition of 2,000 by Lilliput Lane artist, Gary Kerkhoffl
Dorset, South West 12 cm H, 23.0 cm L
As you view this idyllic scene you can almost hear the gentle notes of the brass band playing Symphony no. 9 'From the New World' by Czech composer, Antonin Leopold Dvotak - - which is no great surprise really, as Gold Hill is the street which was immortalized in a famous TV commercial for a certain brand of bread!
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Brixham's brightly coloured shops, the Prince William of Orange Monument and a miniature version of Brixham's full-size replica of the Golden Hind have been incorporated in this fabulous Lilliput Lane composition.
A beautifully detailed representation of the quaint cottage buildings around Brixham harbour including a small model of Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.
The Golden Hind is part of a Lilliput Lane 1,500 piece limited edition by artist Gary Kerkhoff.
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Go With the Flow L3394
(LIMITED EDITION OF 850)
GLOUSTERSHIRE, SOUTH WEST
Height: 10.0cm Length: 19.0cm
Situated at a junction of the Thames & Severn Canal and
the River Thames, Lechlade's distinctive roundhouse is one
of five such buildings in the area, which originally served as
lengthsmen's cottages (a lengthsman being the person who
took care of a particular stretch of canal).
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LL3287 Lilliput Lane Grafton Lock | $160.00
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Grafton Lock by Lilliput Lane, LL3287, liimited edition of 850.
Phoebe grew up in a chocolate box village complete with her own pet donkeys. She is now based in Sunderland, drawing inspiration from the Northumberland coast and her childhood memories. Phoebe really enjoys sculpting the gardens on her pieces and enjoys gardening as a hobby, sharing a vegetable allotment with friends as well as her own plant-filled yard. During her spare time after tending to the allotment Phoebe enjoys going camping.
Phoebe's delightful scene has captured all of the nostalgia and charm of the canal experience of bygone times (hence the 1950s cruiser) and has been inspired by the lock and lock keeper's house at Grafton Lock, on the Thames, Oxfordshire. Built in 1896, the house, which is built of stone with a tiled roof, benefited from a magnificent bay window that enabled the lock keeper to get good views both up and down the river in order that he be forewarned whenever his services were required. Today, its walls are clad with clambering wisteria making it pretty as a picture, but no doubt obscurng the views somewhat !
The manual-beam pound lock we see today was built at the same time as the house and its large heavy wooden beams replaced the 'paddles' and 'rymers' of a previous flash weir (called Day's Weir). What is a lock? According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, a lock is: 'a short section of a canal or river with gates and sluices at each end which can be opened or closed to change the water level, used for raising and lowering boats.' Why would this be necessary? Well, put quite simply, it was a means of making rivers more navigable for the increasing demands of commerce.
In 1660 there were about 700 miles of navigable English rivers recorded, and by 1830, over 2,000 miles of canal had been built, which, when connected to existing canalised river systems provided Britain with over 4,000 miles of inland waterways enabling cargo-carrying vessels to transport goods around the country. The lifeblood of trade and industry, these canals remained the major means of transporting goods right up until the arrival of the railways in the mid nineteenth century, when they sadly fell into decline.
It is the leisure industry that we have to thank for the survival of our nation's great waterways and to the restoration of many old barges too, as there are plenty of people keen to escape from the pressures of everyday modern life by spending time in the 'slow lane' watching the countryside drifting gently past. Grafton Lock Meadow has been designated as an English Nature Site of Special Scientific Interest, protecting it for the public to enjoy in all its natural beauty for years to come.
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Haworth Village by Lilliput Lane , LL3189
Yorkshire, North East & Yorkshire
Height: 12.0cm Length: 24.5cm
Haworth is famous for two things - being the home of the Brontes and the film location for The Railway Children - our atmospheric scene has been inspired by Haworth's steep cobbled Main Street.
Limited edition of 150
Illuminated
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LL3055 Land of Hops and Glory | $280.00
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Land of Hops and Glory by Lilliput Lane, model LL3005
Both the oast house and the late medieval timber-framed building depicted on our wonderful scene are based upon buildings from the old Wealden wool village of Smarden, near Ashford, which emerged when hops were first introduced to the area during the nineteenth century.
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The Loch Inn by Lilliput Lane , model LL2964
Not presently in stock but can be special ordered
Our nostalgic scene depicting a brightly coloured barge moored up alongside a canal pub has been inspired by the Star Inn in the village of Stone in Staffordshire.
Illuminated piece
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LL2459 Mallard Record Breaker Garage LL2459 | $590.00
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The Mallard Record Breaker Garage by Lilliput Lane, model LL2459
Our fabulous model features the record breaking Mallard Steam locomotive that on July 3rd 1938 set a world record top speed of 126 miles per hour -a record which still stands today.
Limited Edition in stock
We have editional large photos of all sides of the piece that we can email you on request.
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Lilliput Lane Scarborough Harbor | $250.00
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Scarborough Harbor L3359
LIMITED EDITION OF 850 BY PHOEBE HARVEY LEE
YORKSHIRE, NORTH EAST & YORKSHIRE
Height: 14.5cm Length: 17.0cm
This stunning Limited Edition really captures Scarborough's rich
maritime heritage and depicts many of the most notable buildings
found in the 'Old Town', the area around the harbour and on
Castle Hill, as well as the castle and St Mary's Church.
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Lilliput Lane Sunny Selworthy LL3003 | $498.00
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Sunny Selworthy by Lilliput Lane, LL3003, edition of 2000
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 Cottage over the years, some of which are included again on this fabulous scene.
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Lilliput Lane Wind in the Willows LL3102 | $230.00
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Wind in the Willows by Lilliput Lane, LL3102
Our beautiful nostalgic scene has been inspired by Hunsett Mill, near Stalham, Norfolk, and truly captures the atmosphere and tranquility of a bygone era. Built in 1860 from locally-made red bricks it ran two scoop wheels and has to be one of the most photographed of all of Norfolk's mills.
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Lilliput Lane Swan and Cygnet | $70.00
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Swan & Cygnet (LE: 995), model LL3231
Thornton Hough, Cheshire
Created by the architect J Lomax Simpson, this impressive Grade-II-Listed building was built in 1910 as the gatehouse to the magnificent Thornton Manor, which was bought in 1893 by William Hesketh Lever, later the first Viscount Leverhulme of Port Sunlight fame.
Lever had planned more buildings around the entrance courtyard, but this black and white gatehouse was the only one completed, as the Great War intervened. Capturing much of the decorative detailing, our version comes complete with two topiary swans with cygnets - hence the name!
Swan & Cygnet is the third in the special series of four Limited Edition lodges. The first in the series, Frog Hall, was introduced in January 2008; the second, The Hare & Hounds, in January 2009; and the last piece will be launched in January 2011.
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