Some of them are names that are known the world over, others that we remember from our favourite High Street, all of these well known stores can be part of your personal street!
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F W Woolworth - 1935
F W Woolworth opened his first UK store at 25 Church Street, Liverpool
in November 1909, translating a ‘5 & dime’ idea in the USA into 3d & 6d. By the 1930’s there were over 400 stores across the country.
‘Woolies’ as we affectionatley called it, joined the nation in celebrating every Royal occasion with souvenir china and bunting. In our ceramic, we see the shop decked out ready for the Silver Jubilee of King George & Queen Mary, in 1935. At that time, Woolworths boasted that they sold ‘Nothing over 6d’ but World War II, and inflation soon ended that!
A limited painting of just 80 ceramics.
Woolworths measures 18cm (7 &1/16″) tall x 10cm (4″ wide)
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Woolworths – 1960s
In its heyday, the 1950s to 1970s, Woolworths was
the place to go for everything from a bag of ‘Pic’n'Mix’ to needles and cotton, small appliances for the kitchen, a toy or colouring book, Back to School clothes, make up, and the latest hit singles (on vinyl of course!) Woolworths became a UK sales leader in the music industry in the 1960s with its’ Embassy Record Labal and had other famous brand names too, Ladybird clothing being a great Mums’ favourite. When it’s 800 branches closed, the last bag of Pic’n'Mix was auctioned for thousands of pounds! – all donated to charity.
The name Woolworth, and some of its famous brand names live on in the market place today, but will live on in our happy childhood memories for ever!
Our version shows the window packed with all the things on offer, and measures 18cm (7 &1/16″) tall x 10cm (4″ wide)
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Alf Roberts’ Corner Shop & Post Office
Situated at 2 North Parade, Broad Street, Grantham, Lincolnshire.
This general grocer was owned and run not by the Alf Roberts of ‘Coronation Street’ fame, but the father of Margaret
Thatcher, first and so far, only female Prime Minister of the UK, who was born in the flat above her father’s shop.
Alf Robert, Alderman and Mayor of Grantham ran his shop for over 30 years from the 1920s to the 1950s. He and his wife Beatrice had two daughters, Margaret was the younger. The building itself was built in the late 18th Century and the actual model produced is based on a photo of it around 1912. We show it as it would have looked during the 1950’s, with it’s beautifully detailed shop window stocked with products whose names alone take us straight back to childhood!
The Corner Grocer is a limited edition of just 1000 pieces.
First produced in 2004, it measures 20.7cm (8& 1/4″) tall to top of chimney x 11.2cm(4&1/2″)wide at widest point.
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Paxton & Whitfields
Located at 93, Jermyn Street, Paxton & Whitfield
has been established in St James’s for over 200 years and in their present premises for over 100 years.
This quintessentially English cheesemonger, established in 1797 lays claim to supply the best Stilton in the kingdom. As Winston Churchill once
famously said: “A gentleman only buys his cheese from Paxton & Whitfield”
Paxton and Whitfield were granted their first Royal Warrant by Queen Victoria, several more warrants followed, and today Paxton & Whitfield still supply cheese to our Royal Family.
Take a closer look at the beautifully hand painted window on this ceramic, the cheeses stand on their platters, just ready to be tasted, and the name and details on the fascia and windows are painted in pure gold.
Paxton and Whitefield is a limited edition of just 500 pieces. It measures 23.2cm (9 & 1/8″) tall to the top of the chimney x 10cm (4″) wide.
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Floris
Floris, the Perfumers, have been operating at 89 Jermyn
Street since 1730. A delightful building & one of the many in Jermyn St. that Hazle would like to model. Note the gold & copper highlights. The interior contains some magnificent Spanish Mahogany Showcases from the Great Exhibition of 1851.
One of the quirkier things that happened in the shop was the “laundering” of money. Because ladies of the period often wore long elegant gloves & money was quite dirty, Floris used to take the money they received from customers & wash & iron it. Change would be given to the customers on a velvet tray, still used today!! With service like this no wonder they hold Royal Warrants!! The building is directly opposite Princes Arcade, where you will find John English Gifts, one of our premier stockists & the shop where you can purchase this piece (as well as off the website) It is one of the smallest Limited Editions we have ever produced and is companion to Paxton & Whitfield, 2 doors away.
Floris is a numbered edition of just 500 pieces, and measures 23cm (9″) tall to the top of the chimney x 10.5cm (4 & 1/4″) wide.
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Lock & Co
Located at No. 6 St James’ London, Lock & Co. Hatters was
founded in 1676 by George James Lock, and continues to trade as a Hatter from the same premises today.
Over the centuries, Lock & Co. have supplied hats to the Military, the aristocracy, and more recently, celebrities. Their clients have included Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Depp, and of course, many members of the Royal family.
Lock & Co. where instrumental in the developement of the ‘Coke’ or Bowler hats, which at one time, no city gent would be seen without!
Our ceramic features a display of gents hats in one window, with ladies in the other, and the shop name in 22 ct gold.
Lock & Co is a numbered edition of just 500 pieces and measures 21.5cm (8 &1/2″) tall to the top of the chimney x10.2cm (4″) wide.
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Sherlock Holmes House
221b’ Baker Street ‘home’ of the celebrated
(fictitious -honestly!) criminal investigator, Sherlock Holmes and trusty colleague Dr. Watson. The ceramic is painted with Holmes playing the violin in the left hand upstairs window and his ‘hubble-bubble’ pipe in the right window. Mrs. Hudson’s (housekeeper) drawing room is on the ground floor. There are railings of cast metal and a metal lamp post. This is the first ceramic we have added metalwork to.
The building itself does exist – in Baker St. London and would probably have been a boarding house at the time Conan Doyle was creating Holmes – but it was not Number 221b. At present it is 221b and houses a ‘Museum’ dedicated to Sherlock Holmes ‘memorabilia’- in fact you would swear he lived there…
The Sherlock Holmes House measures 23.4cm (9 & 1/4″) tall to the top of the chimney x 9cm ( 3 & 1/2″) wide.
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Charles Dickens House
Located at 48 Doughty Street, London.
This is where Charles Dickens lived from 1837 to 1839. Following the success of the Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens and family moved into this gated Georgian Street, and it was during the years that he lived here that he wrote Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby.
It is the only surviving home of the great Victorian novelist and social commentator, and is now home to The Charles Dickens Museum which has a large collection of material relating to the life ane times of Dickens. The building was opened as a Museum in 1925 and today welcomes a steady stream of visitors from all over the world.
Our ceramic version shows the dates of Dickens’ birth and death on the blue plaque outside, and has an A board advertising the Charles Dickens Museum.
It stands 21.7cm ( 8 & 1/2″) tall to the top of the chimney x 9.4cm (3 & 5/8″) wide.
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The Crooked House at Lavenham
The Crooked House is one of Lavenham’s most
famous landmarks. Lavenham in Suffolk is noted for its 15th century church, half-timbered medieval cottages and medieval look due to it’s lack of overhead electricity. In the medieval period it was among the 20 wealthiest settlements in England.
Today it is a popular day trip destination. Lavenham’s Market Square was the main location of the 1968 film the Witchfinder General. In 2010, under conditions of strict secrecy, scenes from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows were filmed here too.
The Crooked House was built sometime between 1375 and 1425, by a wealthy cloth merchant. Today it is an art gallery featuring a variety of local artists, jewellers and sculptors. The timbers have warped over time causing the upper floor to look distinctly crooked – hence the name!
Our version is painted with the deep pink colour popular in the area, which was originally tinted with animal blood.
The Crooked House measures 19.5cm (7 & 3/4″) tall to the top of the chimney x 7.5cm (3″) wide
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The Chantry
Located in the High Street, Billiericay, Essex.
The Chantry House was built around 1510 on the site of an earlier building erected to house the priest who served the Chantry Chapel (now St Mary Magdelen) in the 1340’s
Ship’s governor Christopher Martin, a vitualler of ships, owned the Chantry building and lived there until he sailed on the Mayflower with the Pilgrim Fathers to New England. As vitualler, he also supplied the food for the voyage. Sadly, he perished along with his wife Marie, Solomon Prower, and John Langemore shortly after their arrival at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
The building has had many uses and changes of ownership over the years, and is currently a restaurant. On the front of our ceramic version, you will see the date of building, 1510. Drive past the real Chantry in Billericay, and you will see a different date… Local historians advise the date we use is the correct one.
The Chantry measures 16.9cm(6 & 3/4″) tall to the top of the chimney x 12.4cm (4 & 7/8″) wide.
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Our ceramics are hand painted with care, individual artisits work can vary, and a photo of one ceramic will not depict exactly every ceramic painted. Our ceramics are hand made and individually finished. This means the measurements can very slightly from one to another, but only by a milimetre or two.