Lilliput Lane Group
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Lilliput Lane started producing their miniature cottages in 1982. David Tate, the founder, opened workshops at Skirsgill, in England's Lake District, and the company has remained in the area ever since.
Pictured right: Arithmetic at the Old School House the Annual Symbol of Membership for 2011
The majority of cottages are based on real cottages, with collections based not only on British Cottages, but also American, and in the past German, Dutch and French Cottages.
The cottages have attracted a worldwide audience and with regular retirements and new issues. There is a lot of demand for earlier and rarer cottages.
Collectors Club
The club offers members the chance to receive and purchase exclusive models, and to find out more information about Lilliput Lane, through its quarterly magazine Gulliver's World.
For 2011 the Lilliput Lane Collectors Club has a ‘theme’ of the three Rs: ‘Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic.
Pictured left: The 2011 Members Only Cottages Reading at Shrewsbury & Writing with Lewis Carroll
Reading at Shrewsbury
What better building to represent reading than a library? And they don't come much better than this fine example from Castle Gates, Shrewsbury. The county town of Shropshire, Shrewsbury boasts over six hundred listed ancient buildings, so you might be forgiven for thinking this impressive brick building with mock timber façade and jettied second storey is much older than it actually is, but surprisingly, it is dated 1902. The words 'Blower's Repository' are inscribed over the archway of the adjoining stone porch and refer to the former use of the building: as a repository, or warehouse for a local retailer by the name of Blower. Today it serves as a research library for the Shropshire Archive.
Writing with Lewis Carroll
This very distinguished-looking red brick property on Castle Hill could be said to represent all three, because the man for whom it will forever be associated with was a famous Oxford don, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who lectured mathematics and wrote numerous books on the subject too; but who is more famously remembered as a writer under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll — the author of Alice in Wonderland. 'Curiouser and curiouser'… Charles rented The Chestnuts from 1868 for his six unmarried sisters to live in after the death of his father, and although he never actually lived in it himself he did visit frequently. He died here in 1898 and is buried in the nearby Mount Cemetery.
Lilliput Lane Articles and Features
Lilliput Lane Group & Forum
Disney and Lilliput Lane
Ray Day Celebrates 10 Years with Lilliput Lane by R. J. Gulliver
Lilliput Lane Land of Legend by R. J. Gulliver
A Look at Lilliput Lane Cottages by R. J. Gulliver
Lilliput Lane Gardens
