England - Pencil Museum in Keswick, Entrance

While on the tour that inaugurated our journey the bus passed through Keswick, where our guide pointed out a pencil museum.  We didn't stop there on that day, but Andrew and I thought, Well, they have a museum about pencils of all things, so we gotta go to the pencil museum.

Most would think a museum that focuses solely on such a mundane item as a pencil would be blasé, if not funny, but we found it to be interesting, and taken very seriously by the Brits that worked there and the Brits that were there visiting as tourists.  And who's ever been to a pencil museum?  Andrew and I can now say that we have...

Picture of him opening the pencil van in a very manly fashion: