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Luca's Ristorante, Keswick
Luca's Ristorante
Street:-   Main Street
locality:-   Keswick
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY26252375
1Km square:-   NY2623
10Km square:-   NY22
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
CDX73.jpg (taken 16.9.2015)  

evidence:-   old print:- Pearson 1900s
placename:-  Keswick School of Industrial Arts
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, The Keswick School of Industrial Arts, Keswick, Cumberland, published by C Arthur Pearson, Henrietta Street, London, 1900s.
image  click to enlarge
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On p.155 of Pearson's Gossipy Guide to the English Lakes and Neighbouring Districts. 
printed at bottom:-  "THE KESWICK SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS. (p.154)."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1188.63
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Keswick Industrial Arts
placename:-  Keswick School of Industrial Arts
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"KESWICK INDUSTRIAL ARTS / / MAIN STREET / KESWICK / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71878 / NY2625623752"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Industrial Arts and Crafts Centre. 1893, architect unknown. Snecked stone with Westmorland slate roofs. L-shape plan, local vernacular style. 2 storeys with attic storey to front elevation and single storey workshops attached at the rear. Main entrance bay 3 of the first floor reached by attached spiral stair leading to 4-bay plain wooden verandah. Front facade has painted wooden inscription above (altered) 3-bay window at ground floor reading: 'The loving eye and patient hand, shall work with joy and bless the land'. 1st floor has 2 32-pane windows and half-glazed door set back at verandah level with long roof dormer above. Facade completed by 2 storey gable fronted end, with 2 windows at ground level and a canted bay window on brackets above. The front gable, side gable and double rear gables all hung with Westmorland slates to base of roof line. Rear elevation of 2 storeys has 6-light, canted, 2nd floor bay window. Interior not inspected."
"Included for historical association with the founder. Canon Rawnsley, patron of Beatrix Potter and founder of the National Trust, who established Keswick Industrial Arts in 1883."


photograph
CDX74.jpg (taken 16.9.2015)  
photograph
CDX75.jpg (taken 16.9.2015)  

MN photo:-  
Keswick Museum has a collection of meterails relevant to the school.

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CCZ59.jpg  Showroom, 1904
(taken 13.5.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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CCZ60.jpg  Coffee spoons, sterling silver.
(taken 13.5.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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CCZ61.jpg  Design for a finger ring.
(taken 13.5.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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CCZ62.jpg  Spoons and designs.
(taken 13.5.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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CCZ63.jpg  Design for a teapot.
(taken 13.5.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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CCZ64.jpg  Electrioliers.
(taken 13.5.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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CCZ65.jpg  Electriolier.
(taken 13.5.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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CCZ66.jpg  Electrioliers, made by T Carey.
(taken 13.5.2015)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.

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