Cars of the Stars Motor Museum, Cumberland Pencil Museum

Cars of the Stars Motor Museum

Cars of the Stars Motor Museum, who'd have thought!, in Keswick is well worth a jaunt! There's a rather strange picture of the owner of the museum, Mr Nelson in one of his cars on the website. He was a car collector before starting the museum.

There are some pretty famous cars here. The obvious ones like 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang', the original Bat Mobile, Robo cop's car, and umm the Noddy Car. I think Mr Nelson must be a Bond fan, as there is quite a few Bond cars here. It's all a bit of daft fun!!

It's only open at certain times, in February half term for 7 days, 10am-5pm, 1 week prior to Easter until December, 7 days a week from 10am-5pm, and December until Christmas - weekends only 10am-5pm. Adults are £4 and children £3.

Cars of the Stars Motor Museum, Standish Street, Keswick, CA12 5LS Tel: 017687 72090 or international: +4417687 73757

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Keswick Cumberland Pencil Museum

Cumberland graphite was first discovered around 1500 in the Seathwaite Fell in Borrowdale near Keswick. Initially, when locals realised that it wasn't coal and wouldn't burn, they found it most useful for marking sheep. The graphite was referred to in

The Derwent Pencil, with it's long history of manufacturing craft, is now prized as one of the highest quality fine art pencils in the world. The Pencil Museum offers and opportunity to explore this fascinating local history, charting developments from 1

Cumberland Pencil Museum, The Derwent Pencil of Choice! Southey Works, Keswick, Cumbria, CA12 5NG, Tel: 017687 73626 Open all year round from 9.30am to 4 pm.

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