Wander down our High Street at leisure, and when you have made your selection, visit our online shop to place your order.

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The Post Office

This pretty building is located close to Great Malvern.

The post office has been a central part of every British High Street ever since the introduction of the penny post in 1840.  But these little shops are more than just stamp sellers, they also keep the shelves overflowing with all the essentials of everyday life!  Take a closer look at the Notice board outside, showing the latest headlines.  Each time we kiln fire a group of Post Offices, we first have to choose the headline!  It’s easy if England happen to have done well in the cricket (especially against Australia!) Many of our headlines have been controversial, some dramatic, probably the most memorable has been ‘Words are not enough’ following Sept 11, 2001, and still requested by collectors to this day.

The Post Office measures 18.8cm (7 & 1/4″ ) tall to the top of the chimney x 8.7cm (3 & 3/8 “) wide.

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The Dairy & Barber

Located in Thames Street, near to the castle in Windsor, this attractive little pair of buildings just had to be modelled together!

Built during the 18th century, these little shops have housed a variety of different businesses over the last two centuries, but here we show them as they looked during the Queen’s childhood, when she lived in Windsor, with a gentleman’s barber, and the local dairy firm, Hedges and Keep.

The ‘Dairy Double’ measures 20.5cm (8 & 1/16″) tall to the top of the chimney x 12.1cm (4 & 6/8″) wide

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The Chemist

This classic 18th Century Georgian shop front is based on one in Bath, and shown here as the Chemist, with it’s display of bottles and classic carboys in the window, and a trailing ivy making it’s way across the front of the building.  The Chemist is one of our oldest production models, and still a favourite today – after all who could imagine a high street without it’s chemist!

This ceramic is also available for personalisation, visit the personalising page for details.

The Chemist measures 22cm tall (8 & 5/8″)   x 10cm (4″) wide.

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The Butcher

Based on  a 17th century building in St. Peter’s Street,  Canterbury Kent, here we have a traditional butchers shop, with it’s red and white striped awning, sawdust on the floor, and a delivery bike parked outside.

These were the days when the local butcher knew his regular customers well and prided himself on supplying each with fresh, well chosen cuts of meat.  Recently, with the growing popularity of  Farmers Markets and local food, we are perhaps beginning to see more customers discovering  high street butchers.

The Butcher measures 21cm tall to the top of the chimney, x 10cm wide.

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The Bed & Breakfast

Located in old Portmouth.  Here we hark back to the days before package holidays made foreign travel available to all, and instead, millions of British families would spend the summer break at a seaside ‘B&B’

The landlady might serve a ‘full English’ breakfast, but would then show her guests off the premises, and not allow them back in until dinner!  There might be only one bathroom between three families, and hot water only between the hours of six and eight, but for the lucky ones, there were sea view rooms, a golden sandy beach just across the road, with ice creams, donkey rides, sticks of rock and saucy postcards to send home.  Those were the days!

The Bed and Breakfast is available in two colourways, green or yellow, please make your colour selection on the shop.  It measures 23.5cm(9 & 1/4″) tall to the top of the chimney x 8.5cm(3 & 3/8″) wide.

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The Toy Shop

Located at Pately Bridge. 

We really should have modelled this one with little noses pressed up against the window!  Who ever owns this little independent toy shop knows his stuff! There are dolls houses, soldiers & balls, train sets - Hornby Dublo, or Tri-ang! and inside you just know there will be jigsaws, Monopoly, Cluedo, Scrabble, Sindy, Barbie, Daisy, (remember her?) Brittain’s farm animals, and Action Man with his eagle eyes & gripping hands complete with all the accesories for his lastest adventure!  Step back to childhood and enjoy!

The Toy Shop measures 21.75cm (8 & 1/2″) tall to the top of the chimney  x 7.6cm (3″) wide

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The Bookshop

This building is located in Hay-on-Wye, on the English/Welsh border.  In this town of books, every other shop is a bookshop!  and once a year, the town fills to overflowing for the famous Literary Festival.  Maybe that is why our bookshop is also advertising bed & breakfast, as everyone who has visited the festival knows how tricky it is to find a hotel room!  This is one of Hazle and Stephen’s  favourite towns, and it you are ever at the festival, you may bump into them, so of course, we had to have a Hay-on-Wye bookshop among our collection.

The Bookshop measures 21.2cm (8 & 3/8″) tall to the top of the chimney x 9.5cm (3 & 3/4″) wide.

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The Chocolate Shop

Based on a former biscuit maker’s factory in Royal Tunbridge Wells.  This attractive building has an appealing combination of styles, with sweeping front steps, bay windows, and a Venitian style window above, adorned with wisteria.

But it is what is inside the window that makes this shop special, hand made chocolates, using the finest ingredients, fudge, bon-bons, toffees and more!   All beautifully boxed and tied with bows, ready to be given for that special occasion. Just thinking about it is enough to gain a few pounds!

The chocolate shop measures  20.3cm tall (8″)to the top of the chimney x 8.6cm (3 1/2″) wide.

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The Pork Pie Shop

Located at 10 Nottingham Street, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

Melton Mowbray is famously known at the home of the pork pie, and here we present the home of the Master pork pie bakers, Dickinson & Morris.

Mary Dickinson first began baking her wonderful pies here in 1851, and today they are the oldest remaining bakers of the original and authentic Melton Mowbrey Pork Pie.

The Pork Pie Shop measures 17.5cm (7″) tall to the top of the chimney  x 11cm (4 &1/4″) wide

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Our Ceramics are individuals! hand made and hand painted with care, individual artisits work can vary, and a photo of one ceramic will not depict exactly every ceramic painted. They are hand made and individually finished. This means the measurements can very slightly from one to another, but only by a milimetre or two.