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| Greta Pencil Works, Keswick | ||
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| Greta Pencil Works | ||
| locality:- | Southey Hill | |
| locality:- | Keswick | |
| civil parish:- | Keswick (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | pencil works | |
| coordinates:- | NY26642371 (?) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2623 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY22 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 6) placename:- Greta Pencil Works |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Greta Pencil Works" |
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| evidence:- | old advertisement:- Atkinson 1847 (5th edn 1850) placename:- Greta Pencil Works item:- pencil |
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| source data:- | Advertisement for Banks, Foster and Co, Greta Pencil Works, Keswick, Cumberland, 1850. click to enlargeAK2A19.jpg At the end of a Handbook to the English Lakes, 5th edn. item:- Armitt Library : A1144.27 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old advertisement:- Linton 1852 placename:- Greta Pencil Works item:- pencil |
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| source data:- | Advertisement, for Banks, Son and Co, Greta Pencil Works, ... published by Whittaker
and Co, London, and by R Gibson and Son and by Callander and Dixon, Whitehaven, Cumberland,
1852. click to enlargeLN1A02.jpg Advertisments p.2 in A Handbook of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway, by John Linton. item:- Armitt Library : A1158.15 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old advertisement:- Philip/Wilson 1890s item:- pencil |
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| source data:- | Advertisement from The Concise Series of Guides No.1, The English Lake District, published
about 1895. click to enlargePW1A24.jpg Guide book published by George Philip and Son, 32 Fleet Street, London, Philip, Son and Nephew, Liverpool, Lancashire, and Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, about 1895. "... FIRE-PROOF LEADS ..." item:- JandMN : 58 Image © see bottom of page |
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