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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!).

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5. The Gallery was intended to house the Armstrong’s impressive private collection of art and other collectable exotica - including over 4,000 seashells.

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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.

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(Sources: National Trust, Wikipedia).
 
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Another amazing set. Love it, and keep them coming!
 
Another amazing set. Love it, and keep them coming!
Hi Mike,

This one was high up on our hit-list - and will probably feature in a repeat visit as there's more there we'd like to see.

We'd hoped to cycle there and around the grounds (a 6-mile pleasure drive), but the weather was absolutely dire and part of our intended 'quiet lanes' route there and back from our campsite was being used as a diversion for a road closure, so it was like a racetrack.

P&K
 
Wonderful pictures and the accompanying text is much appreciated.
 

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