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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

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 6) 
placename:-  Greta Pencil Works
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"

evidence:-   old advertisement:- Atkinson 1847 (5th edn 1850) 
placename:-  Greta Pencil Works
item:-  pencil
source data:-   Advertisement for Banks, Foster and Co, Greta Pencil Works, Keswick, Cumberland, 1850.
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At the end of a Handbook to the English Lakes, 5th edn. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1144.27
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evidence:-   old advertisement:- Linton 1852
placename:-  Greta Pencil Works
item:-  pencil
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.
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Advertisments p.2 in A Handbook of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway, by John Linton. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1158.15
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evidence:-   old advertisement:- Philip/Wilson 1890s
item:-  pencil
source data:-   Advertisement from The Concise Series of Guides No.1, The English Lake District, published about 1895.
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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
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