Pencil Museum

Today we visited the Derwent Pencil Museum in Keswick. It is the home of the first pencil. Visitors enter the museum through a replica graphite mine which would have served as the source of the pencil industry over three centuries ago.
It shows their secret WWII pencils with hidden maps, and displays one of the largest colour pencils in the world - measuring almost 8 meters long - together with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pencil. Only two were produced: The Queen has one and the other is in the museum. See extra.
A small but very interesting place. The Derwent pencils are still made in Cumbria, but now in Workington.
Second extra is of some lambs sheltering from the drizzle.