Derwent Pencil Factory Lillyhall
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Derwent pencil factory lillyhall. A journey of graphite and pencil discovery from its humble beginnings as a cottage industry. Mix and match your pencils save 10. The company has been making pencils in cumbria for over 175 years originally at keswick but now at a new manufacturing facility at lillyhall workington. When you put pencil to paper and you appreciate the laydown texture or blending ability it s adam and the team you ve got thank.
Derwent pencil museum derwent art partners corporate social responsibility. As well as being a state of the art facility it was built to ensure that our impact on the environment is minimal. Permanent highly lightfast opaque pens. Our pencil museum still stands on the site of our original factory in keswick.
The cumberland pencil company was created in 1916 and the first derwent colour pencil was introduced in 1938. Home of the world s first pencil. Our pencil museum still stands on the site of our original factory in keswick. The derwent pencil factory is much more than a standard factory.
Buy own tins now. Located in keswick the home of the first pencil visitors enter this museum through a replica graphite mine which would have served as the source of the pencil industry over three centuries ago. The cumberland pencil company was created in 1916 and the first derwent colour pencil was introduced in 1938. The visit will include a brief talk on the company s long history followed by a.