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Greta Bridge pencil works, Keswick
Greta Bridge pencil works
locality:-   Keswick
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   pencil works
coordinates:-   NY262236 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY2623
10Km square:-   NY22

photograph
BRA59.jpg  Box of specimen pencils:-
"BLACK LEAD PENCILS / SPECIMENS SHOWING THE VARIOUS STAGES OF MANUFACTURE. / ANN BANKS, Limited / PENCIL WORKS, KESWICK." (taken 9.7.2009)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
photograph
BUF91.jpg  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  horses
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, Greta Bridge, River Greta, Keswick, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
image  click to enlarge
HB0620.jpg
Ann Banks, Greta Bridge pencil works, on the right. 
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS280
Image © see bottom of page
hearsay:-  
 Pencils made by Ann Banks and Co from 1881; taken over by Charles Greenwood, 1912; closed 1950.
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