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exhibition room, Keswick
locality:-   Keswick
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   exhibition room
coordinates:-   NY26652342 (guess) 
1Km square:-   NY2623
10Km square:-   NY22
evidence:-   old diary:- Green 1802-21
source data:-   Diaries kept by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1802-21.
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Diary, 24 February 1804:-  "24 took a room between the [Oak] &Queen Head in Keswick of Mr Brockbank at the rent L8 per Annum for an exhibition room; ..."
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Diary, 28 May 1804:- 
End of May, beginning of June 1804, preparing for exhibitions at Ambleside and Keswick:-  "June 1 Coloured the room &hooked it"
"2 put up the drawings"
"3 Sunday put up drawings & wrote letters &prepared things for Keswick."
"4 went to Keswick with the Millers cart &prepared things for the exhibition"
"5 Joiners at work &pasted the end of the room"
"6 Coloured the room &drove part of the tenters"
"7 Coloured frames &hooked"
"..."
person:-   artist
 : Green, William
date:-   1804
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