A master model maker in his 90s has created a scaled down version of the Theatre Royal Brighton to mark its 200th birthday.

Ted Bayley, 91, has spent about two months creating the intricate model from plywood.

He said: "I was working from a tiny lithograph of the original Theatre Royal 200 years ago. I'm not as quick as I used to be but I am very pleased with the results."

Ted, a retired decorator, has made about 200 models of historic buildings, many now demolished, over the past 20 years.

They include Brighton's West Pier, the Warnes Hotel, Worthing, and the inside of the town's famous Dome cinema.

His first piece was a recreation of Worthing's old lifeboat station.

Ted, of Anglesea Street, Worthing, said: "I got to the point when I could see I needed a hobby and I saw a picture in The Argus of the lifeboat station.

"I got some cardboard and old bits of wood and just started making a model of it. When I was finished I took it to the local museum and the curator said the lifeboat people may be interested in buying it.

"I had just made it to pass the time away but I took it to a man whose whole family used to work on the lifeboats and he commissioned me to do a bigger one."

Ted's version of the theatre dates back to when Edmund Kean, the most famous actor of his era, was treading its boards.

Pioneering the technology of the time, the theatre was about to install gas lighting - the first theatre in the country to do so.

Ted, who has seven great-grandchildren, said: "I want to start doing more theatres now. I'm sure there have been other old theatres in Sussex that may be worth a model."

The Theatre Royal Brighton is celebrating a landmark birthday this year and The Argus and BBC Southern Counties Radio are collecting 200 memories for 200 years.

Email your memories to theatreroyal@theargus.co.uk.

To read memories and view video reports, click here.