<![CDATA[I've only just realised that the pencil they give you as your 'admission ticket' at the Pencil Museum in Keswick is a special pencil!]]>I've only just realised that the pencil they give you as your 'admission ticket' at the Pencil Museum in Keswick is a special pencil!

I'm wondering if a museum purely devoted to pencils might be one of the most Mastodon places in England?
Maybe it's one of Mastodon's Spiritual Homes!

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The brand is called Lakeland pencils for a reason.
Sounds like a great museum.

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Pencils everywhere

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They also give you a quiz based on the exhibits - get them all right and you get a pen as well (it's a normal artist fine liner pen, not specifically branded though!)

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