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Greta Side pencil works, Keswick
Greta Side pencil works
locality:-   Keswick
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   pencil works
coordinates:-   NY267237 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY2623
10Km square:-   NY22

hearsay:-  
Pencils made by Banks, Foster and Co from 1832; Banks, Son and Co from 1851; lastly H Birkbecks from about 1910; the factory was destroyed by fire, 1940.

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