Tom Curtis's Pictures of Cragside

Cragside House, Rothbury

Cragside is a Victorian country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England. It was the home of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, founder of the Armstrong Whitworth armaments firm. An industrial magnate, scientist, philanthropist and inventor of the hydraulic crane and the Armstrong gun, Armstrong also displayed his inventiveness in the domestic sphere, making Cragside the first house in the world to be lit using hydroelectric power.

This picture appears in the following picture tours:
Cragside, Buildings and Structures, Stately Homes and Country Houses, Rothbury, Northumberland

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