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Keswick Museum, Keswick
Keswick Museum
Keswick Museum and Art Gallery
Fitz Park Museum and Art Gallery
Street:-   Station Road
locality:-   Keswick
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   museum
locality type:-   art gallery
locality type:-   lithophone
locality type:-   relief map
coordinates:-   NY26912370
1Km square:-   NY2623
10Km square:-   NY22


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BJX66.jpg (taken 8.10.2005)  
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CDY12.jpg (taken 16.9.2015)  

evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
item:-  fossil
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
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Page 144, footnote:-  "While staying at Keswick it may be worth while to see two museums kept there. They contain a great variety of fossils, and other natural curiosities of the country, several pieces of antiquity, and many other articles."

evidence:-   presumably descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
item:-  geology
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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Page 51:-  "..."
"[Keswick] ... Here are two museums, exhibiting the geological history of the surrounding locality, and many foreign curiosities; one was established by the late Mr. Crosthwaite, and is now kept by his son. At both the museums, the various mineral productions of the district are exposed for sale. ..."
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Page 166:-  "[Keswick] ... There are two museums, containing many curiosities, and specimens of the mineralogy and geology of the district. ..."


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CDX95.jpg  Gallery.
(taken 16.9.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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CDX96.jpg  Gallery.
(taken 16.9.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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CDX97.jpg  Gallery, Wainwright exhibition.
(taken 16.9.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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CDX98.jpg  Gallery, Wainwright exhibition.
(taken 16.9.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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CDX99.jpg  Gallery, Fell and Rock Climbing Club exhibition.
(taken 16.9.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.


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CDY01.jpg  Flintoft's relief map of The Lakes.
(taken 16.9.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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CDY02.jpg  Flintoft's relief map of The Lakes, Longsleddale.
(taken 16.9.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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BOK03.jpg  Flintoft's relief map of The Lakes.
(taken 12.12.2007)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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BOJ91.jpg  Flintoft's relief map of The Lakes; detail, Gatescarth Pass etc.
(taken 12.12.2007)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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BOJ95.jpg  Flintoft's relief map of The Lakes; detail, Longsleddale.
(taken 12.12.2007)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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BOJ93.jpg  Flintoft's relief map of The Lakes; detail.
(taken 12.12.2007)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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BOJ94.jpg  Flintoft's relief map of The Lakes; detail.
(taken 12.12.2007)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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BOJ96.jpg  Mr Flintoft.
(taken 12.12.2007)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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BOJ97.jpg  Advertisement for one of the relief maps.
(taken 12.12.2007)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.


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BOJ88.jpg  Mould for Mayson's relief map of The Lakes.
(taken 12.12.2007)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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BOJ89.jpg  The pile of plaster shapes is about to be wrapped carefully and put into reserve storage.
(taken 12.12.2007)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.


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CDW59.jpg  Bronze relief map of The Lakes, most of the area included in Wainwright guides, by Chris Scammell, Map Sculpture, 2015?
(taken 11.9.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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CDW60.jpg (taken 11.9.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.


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BOK04.jpg  Richardson and Son's Rock, Bell and Steel Band.
(taken 19.9.2006)  courtesy of Keswick Museum
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BOJ98.jpg  Richardson and Son's Rock, Bell and Steel Band.
(taken 19.9.2006)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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BOJ99.jpg  Richardson and Son's Rock, Bell and Steel Band.
(taken 19.9.2006)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.


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BUF88.jpg  Peter Crosthwaite's musical stones, 1785.
(taken 18.3.2011)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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BUF89.jpg  Peter Crosthwaite's musical stones, 1785.
(taken 18.3.2011)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
John Ruskin visited the Crosthwaite Museum in 1830, age eleven, with his parents. In a childhood poem, Iteriad, he wrote:-
And next we were shown, upon a new plan - O
A kind of a sort of a stony piano!
Some stones in the bed of the Great's stream found,
Emitted, when struck, a most musical sound!

Do Y' Ken John Peel
Jamie Barnes, Brian Dewan and Emma Welsby have recorded a number of tunes on a set of musical stones, and have allowed us to use one of the tracks on this website:-

button -- JohnPeel.mp3 (opens in a new window)
The track is taken from a CD
The Musical Stones of Skiddaw; Geophony volume 2.
available at Keswick Museum.


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BUF92.jpg (taken 18.3.2011)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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BUF93.jpg (taken 18.3.2011)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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BUF94.jpg (taken 18.3.2011)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
A new set of musical stones.


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BMR27.jpg  Portrait of Jonathan Otley.
(taken 19.9.2006)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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BMR28.jpg  Jonathan Otley's instruments, etc.
(taken 19.9.2006)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.


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CDX92.jpg  Outline view.
(taken 16.9.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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CDX93.jpg  Outline view.
(taken 16.9.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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CDX94.jpg  Outline view.
(taken 16.9.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
Drawn on the gallery windows as part of the Wainwright exhibition, 2015.


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BRA60.jpg  Sheep, from the Gates of Borrowdale by Frederick Clive Newcom (1847-94); notice the smit marks.
(taken 9.7.2009)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.

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