Handpainted Collectables of the British Seaside, ranging in height from 4.5″ to 6.5″ , perfect to display alone, or to build into a collection.

When you have made your selection visit our online shop to place your order.

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The Dutch Cottage Museum

A  New addition to the collection, launched in June 2010, as a part of our 20th Anniversary celebrations.  This cottage is located on Canvey Island, quite close to our Essex workshop. During the 18th century, many Dutch workers were employed in draining and embanking the low lying land in this area, and built  these octagonal homes for themselves.  Today only four survive on the island, this one built in 1618, is the best known and opens during the summer months as a museum.

The Dutch Cottage measures 11.5cm (4 & 1/2″) tall to the top of the chimney x 7.5cm  (2 & 7/8″) wide.

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The Blue Peter

This 16th Century Inn is located among the fishermens cottages overlooking the harbour in one of the most picturesque places we know – Polperro, Cornwall. These days it is a lively and very traditional British Pub, which prides itself on stocking a range of locally brewed Cornish Ale.

Our ceramic version features the casks of ale beside the doorway, ready for a busy evening,  and a small boat moored beside the harbour steps.

The Blue Peter Inn measures 13cm (5″) tall to the top on the chimney x 7.5cm  (2 & 7/8″) wide.

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Ferryside

Daphne Du Maurier first came to Fowey in her early twenties and immediately fell in love not just with the town but the whole of Cornwall. For many years she lived at Ferryside,  this most beautiful house, set in an idyllic location over looking the ferry crossing, hence the name of the house.  Du Maurier’s  parents bought Ferryside in 1926 and  Daphne and her family spent many happy years here.  It was at Ferryside that she wrote The Loving Spirit, published in 1931.Today the house is still in the Du Maurier family, and it is believed that Daphne’s son currently lives there.

Our ceramic version measures 12.5 cm (5″) tall to the top of the chimney x9.4cm (3 &3/4″) wide .

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The Punch & Judy Teashop

What could sum up a British summer holiday better than this pretty pink Tea Shop?  One can just imagine stepping inside to enjoy a magnificent clotted cream tea, complete with home made strawberry jam and a freshly brewed cuppa! This little shop also sells sticks of rock, and ice cream too!

Our Tea Shop looks out over the beach, where a gathering of children sit watching the Punch & Judy man at work in his booth.  Nearby the same children have just completed a magnificent sandcastle. There is also a wind break standing ready – this is a British beach of course, so it will be needed very soon!

The Punch & Judy Teashop measures 13.5 cm (5 &1/2″) tall to the top of the chimney x 7.8cm (3″) wide.

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Beach Huts

Where ever there is a beach, there is a little shop like this one full of all the beach toys children want! Outside there are beach balls, rubber rings, buckets and spades, airbeds, and of course, every child’s beach object of desire – the inflatable boat, complete with slot-in seat and real oars!  Inside there will be candy floss, saucy postcards, and brightly coloured windmills and flags to top those sandcastles.  Below the shop on the beach there are three colourful beach huts, these huts are based on the those at Wells-next-the-Sea, which often sell for thousands of pounds!

Our Beach Huts ceramic measures 12.3cm (4 & 3/4″) tall to the top of the chimney x 7.5cm (3 & 7/8″) wide.

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The Harbour Guest House

Our Harbour Guest House is based on a building in East Looe, Cornwall, and looks exactly the place for a relaxing holiday break.  We look back to the days when holidays were always taken in Britain, and little gems like this guest house would have their regular clients, returning year after year for their holidays!

The beachside bar is open and next to it sits a table with two cooling drinks all ready to be enjoyed!  Below on the beach are a pair of striped loungers, a book lays open beside one, and on the table between them is a pair of sunglasses.  Maybe the occupants of these loungers have just gone down the steps to the sea for a swim!

The Harbour Guest House measures 16cm (6 &3/8″) tall to the top of the chimney x 7cm (2 & 3/4″) wide.

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The Fisherman’s Cottage

The Fisherman’s Cottage is based on a building in Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland, a place well known for it’s brightly painted homes and now better known to many as ‘Balamory’ from the BBC Childrens TV programme of the same name. Tobermory was founded as a fishing port during the 18th Century, and it’s harbour is kept busy to this day with fishing boats. A local legend says that a Spanish Galleon lays in the bay, wrecked after the Armada of 1588.

Our Fisherman’s cottage has the fishing boat moored at the steps right outside the door,  as this area is a popular destination for those enjoying a fishing holiday, maybe our fisherman rents out his boat too!

The Fisherman’s Cottage measures 11.4 cm (4 & 1/2″) tall to the top of the chimney x 7.5cm (3″) wide.

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The Lifeboat Station

All around the British coastline, you will find modern versions of our lifeboat staion, run by the RNLI. The RNLI was founded in 1824, since then the organisation has saved nearly 150,000 lives in it’s recorded history!  With this detailed and delicately painted ceramic, we pay tribute to the courage of the lifesaving volunteers.

Notice the bell to summon the crew members,and the lifeboat ready to slide down the slipway.  The high and low tides are displayed on a poster beside the door, and to the left hand side of the building a Union Jack is flying.

The Lifeboat Staion measures 13.5cm (5 & 1/4″) tall to the top of the chimney x8cm (3 & 1/4″) wide.

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The Boat Yard

Boatyards and small boat builders like this one, can still be seen around our British coastline & estuaries, many of them probably more for love of the craft than for profit.

Others have lately been converted into restaurants or other leisure facilities.  With this beautifully modelled ceramic, Hazle had the Essex and Kent coastlines in mind and is looking back to the days of  the wooden boat, and the present day ‘weekend sailor’,  like our caster, Peter, who lovingly lay up their boats during the winter, while dreaming of the summer sailing weekends ahead.

The boatyard measures 13.5cm (5& 1/2″) tall x 7.3cm (2 & 7/8″) wide.

obby owner’ who lovingly laid up his boat during the winter, whilst dreaming of the summer sailing weekends.

The boatyard measures 13.5cm (5& 1/2″) tall x 7.3cm ( 2 & 7/8″) wide.

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The Chandler

Every yacht owner needs a good chandlery!  Our ceramic shows a typical traditional chandlery, with waterproofs and lifejackets piled outside on an unturned rowing boat, together with ropes and rigging and even a Ship’s Wheel!  To the side of the building are oars & boathooks!  Moored in front is a sailing yacht called Lizzie II – a reference to our Queen maybe?

The Chandler measures 14cm (5 & 1/2″) tall x 7cm  (2 & 3/4″)wide.

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The Lighthouse

Our lighthouse stands perched on a rocky outcrop, ready to warn mariners of hidden dangers.  For as long as we have taken to the seas there have been lighthouses, the very earliest simple fires built on hilltops.  As raising the fires up made them more visible, they were soon being built on elevated platforms, which led to the delevopment of the lighthouse.

The very last manned lighthouse in the UK, the North Foreland Lighthouse in Kent, closed in November 1998.  Many disused lighthouses have been transformed into unusual homes or restaurants.  The UK has in total 72 lighhouses, now all computer controlled and managed from Trinity House

The Lighthouse measures 12.5cm (5″) tall x 7.5cm (3″) 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.