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As you may know, this year’s Club ‘theme’ is the three Rs: ‘Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic.

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.

As a member of the Lilliput Lane Collectors’ Club you will receive a redemption form so you can purchase either or both of your exclusive Cottages from your local Lilliput Lane Stockist.

(Please note that if you are already a member, we will send you a renewal reminder, approximately six weeks before your membership expires.)

Gulliver’s World Binders
Each binder costs £7.50 and holds twelve copies of
Gulliver’s World – the perfect place to store your club magazine. Contact the club office to place an order.