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| Keswick: Jonathan Otley's | ||
| Jonathan Otley's up t'steps | ||
| Street:- | King's Head Yard | |
| locality:- | Keswick | |
| civil parish:- | Keswick (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | shop | |
| locality type:- | clockmaker (once) | |
| coordinates:- | NY26642345 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2623 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY22 | |
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| MN photo:- |
Jonathan Otley had his clockmaker's shop here from 1791. |
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Smith, Alan (ed): 2001: Rock Men, The: Cumberland Geological Society (Keswick, Cumbria)::
ISBN 0 9541102 0 X BOJ84.jpg (taken 12.12.2007)  BMK93.jpg Inscribed stone nearby:- "HERE LIVED JONATHAN OTLEY 1766-1856 GEOLOGIST &CLOCKMAKER. / A HUMBLE STUDENT OF NATURE AND SCIENCE WHO LABOURED FOR HIS FELLOWS." (taken 24.7.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1822 (plate 19) |
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| source data:- | Print, uncoloured etching, Towns Hall, Keswick, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside,
Westmorland, 1822. click to enlargeGN0819.jpg The building in the right corner is Otley's up t'steps in King's Head Yard. Plate 19 in Forty Etchings from Nature. printed at bottom:- "TOWNS HALL, KESWICK. / Etched from Nature by William Green, &Published at Ambleside, Feby. 1, 1822." item:- Armitt Library : A6644.19 Image © see bottom of page |
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