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Images from our recent visit to Cragside, Rothbury, Northumberland, England.
(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PhotoLab Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe Lightroom Classic/ Photoshop with TK-9 Panel).
You can find out more about Cragside by clicking Here.
Phil and Karen
1. Cragside House sits within a 1000-acre landscaped Estate. Both were created by visionary inventor, engineer and industrial magnate Lord William Armstrong and Lady Margaret Armstrong - gardener and philanthropist.
2. The couple transformed Cragside into ‘Britain’s first smart home’, installing central heating and utilising hydroelectricity to power electric lighting, hydraulics to drive the lift and water to power the rotisserie - there was even an early dishwasher. To this day Cragside uses a hydroelectric system to provide its power.
3. In 1884 the Prince and Princess of Wales – the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra – stayed at the Cragside, choosing it over the region’s castles and other grand homes.
4. The Library has 4 of inventor Joseph Swan’s original incandescent lamps. (Servants would wear gloves to avoid electrocution while placing the bowls in mercury to complete the circuit!).
5. The Gallery was intended to house the Armstrong’s impressive private collection of art and other collectable exotica - including over 4,000 seashells.
6. The huge and massively ostentatious Drawing Room, with its extraordinary two-storey, 10-tonne, carved marble fireplace. Cragside has been owned and managed by the National Trust since 1977.
(Sources: National Trust, Wikipedia).
(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PhotoLab Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe Lightroom Classic/ Photoshop with TK-9 Panel).
You can find out more about Cragside by clicking Here.
Phil and Karen
1. Cragside House sits within a 1000-acre landscaped Estate. Both were created by visionary inventor, engineer and industrial magnate Lord William Armstrong and Lady Margaret Armstrong - gardener and philanthropist.
2. The couple transformed Cragside into ‘Britain’s first smart home’, installing central heating and utilising hydroelectricity to power electric lighting, hydraulics to drive the lift and water to power the rotisserie - there was even an early dishwasher. To this day Cragside uses a hydroelectric system to provide its power.
3. In 1884 the Prince and Princess of Wales – the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra – stayed at the Cragside, choosing it over the region’s castles and other grand homes.
4. The Library has 4 of inventor Joseph Swan’s original incandescent lamps. (Servants would wear gloves to avoid electrocution while placing the bowls in mercury to complete the circuit!).
5. The Gallery was intended to house the Armstrong’s impressive private collection of art and other collectable exotica - including over 4,000 seashells.
6. The huge and massively ostentatious Drawing Room, with its extraordinary two-storey, 10-tonne, carved marble fireplace. Cragside has been owned and managed by the National Trust since 1977.
(Sources: National Trust, Wikipedia).
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