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  • Catalogue
    • Medieval
    • Seventeenth Century
    • Eighteenth Century
    • Napoleonic
    • American Civil War
    • Wild West
    • Modern
    • Spare parts
    • Retired figures
  • Lewes
    • Lewes figures
    • Brooches
    • Cartoon book
  • Dioramas
  • Feedback
    • Reaction
    • Painted figures
    • Conversions
    • Echoes
  • Behind the scenes
    • How a figure is made
    • Plastic makes imperfect
    • Flotsam and jetsam
  • How to buy

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Lewes figures

All these figures are hand-painted and come with their own packaging. Unlike the main Catalogue items they are not available to buy through our distributor Steve Weston’s Toy Soldiers, rather they can be bought from our workshop here in Lewes.

As an alternative to buying the painted, packaged figures, during the school holidays people can come to The Workshop and select one from a choice of eight Battle of Lewes archers/men-at-arms. They can watch their chosen figure being moulded before their very eyes. These unpainted figures will cost them just £2.00 each. If they bring five blue milk bottle tops – for recycling into the figure – they only have to pay £1.50 for their figure.

Battle of Lewes
Four knights from the Battle of Lewes, which in 1264 led to the temporary disempowerment of the king, and, arguably, the beginnings of parliamentary democracy.

Richard, King of the Romans, Always August
John de Warenne
Simon de Montfort
Gilbert de Clare

Sussex Smugglers
Smuggling was rife along the Sussex coast in the eighteenth century. Here are four notorious operators.

James Dipperay
Cephas Quested
Dr. Thomas Hooker
Jevington Jigg

Bonfire boys and girls
Each year Lewes stages the most enthusiastic celebration of Guy Fawkes day in the country. Here are our Lewes bonfire figures. Note that you can get a boy or a girl figure in the colours of each of the seven Lewes bonfire societies.

Bonfire boy: Borough
Bonfire girl: Commercial Square
Bonfire boy: Cliffe
Bonfire girl: Southover
Bonfire boy: Nevill Juvenile
Bonfire girl: Waterloo
Bonfire boy: South Street

Battle of Hastings
The victory of the invading Normans at the Battle of Hastings marked the end of Saxon England.

Mounted Norman throwing spear
Mounted Norman with spear levelled
Norman archer
Norman lunging with sword
Saxon with hat, spear & shield
Saxon with hat, small axe & shield
Saxon with sword & shield
Saxon with helmet & axe
Bareheaded saxon with axe
Saxon with helmet, spear & shield

Guy Fawkes discovered
Guy Fawkes – without whom Lewes Bonfire would not exist – discovered by King James’ men.

Guy Fawkes set

The Age of Reason
Tom Paine, writer and revolutionary, spent six formative years in Lewes before throwing himself behind the republican cause in North America, Britain and France.

Tom Paine

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