Pussy Cat Palace

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Introduction
Painted by Carol Whaley, a volunteer at Pussycat Lodge near Brentwood - run with private donations by widow Jennie Hurley since the 1980s. The model was issued in 1992. Hazle visited naval Portsmouth in the late 80s to see Mary Rose, Henry VIII’s lost ship. She could only remember that the building was a short drive away and semi-derelict back then!

 Brotherly bliss - Max washes Simba - two of Carol’s ten cats.

 Terrace houses dated late 1700s to early 1800s. In the centre, 51 St Thomas’s Street has two shallow bow windows with frieze mouldings. Hazle has modelled No 52’s dormer window with hipped roof and No 50’s triangular doorhead.

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Hazle Ceramics
Pussy Cat Palace
Limited Painting of 30 pieces
on Portsmouth

 With no railings or basement at No 51, we found them a few streets away in Jubilee Terrace.

UK/Europe £69.50
Rest of World £60.43

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Pussycat Lodge
Thirty years ago in London’s East End, Jennie’s seven year-old son found a sealed box of kittens left to die... Today her garden has 6 heated pens for 25 adults plus a mum and kitten unit for 4 families. Many cats brought by vets, the police and public are re-homed. Some of the permanent residents are non-domestic (feral) cats who have a large heated shed. Others enjoy wandering into Jennie’s house which normally has more cats than people!

 Who could resist the charm of Bilbo!

Permanent cat Woody roams in the garden. 

 St Thomas’s Street from Spinnaker Tower.