Tue 25 Dec 2007
At last – a visit to the Pencil Museum!
Posted by Gordon under Friends and family, General
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When we were in Keswick a few years ago we saw that there was a pencil museum there but, regrettably, didn’t go. It has been something we were determined to put right and, with another trip to the Lake District this December, now we have. The Cumberland Pencil Museum is tiny but must be the most charming, friendly and entertaining one we have visited. In addition to the history of pencil making (as you would expect) it also has: the largest pencil in the world; how secret pencils helped escaping POWs in World War II; and why soviet cosmonauts took pencils in to space.
This was the best part of our trip for Eleanor, although Adam said he preferred the alternative attraction in Keswick – Cars of the Stars.