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Cragside é uma casa de campo vitoriana localizada na cidade de Rothbury, em Northumberland, Inglaterra. Era o lar de William George Armstrong, 1º Barão Armstrong, fundador da empresa de armamentos Armstrong Whitworth.
References. Sources. External links. Cragside. Coordinates: 55.3136°N 1.8853°W. Cragside is a Victorian Tudor Revival 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.
In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery.
House of wonders amid rocky moorland. Described from the early days as 'the palace of a modern magician', Cragside is the house that William Armstrong built in the late 19th century amid Northumberland moorland near the village of Rothbury.
27 de out. de 2023 · Search the collections. Discover the history of the 19th-century house, estate and people at Cragside, Northumberland, thought to be Britain's original 'smart home'.
Cragside is a historic house in Northumberland that was once the country retreat of the first Lord Armstrong, a successful Victorian industrialist in the 19th century. Cragside history.
Baron Armstrong is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . The first creation came on 6 July 1887 when the industrialist Sir William Armstrong was made Baron Armstrong, of Cragside in the County of Northumberland. The title became extinct on his death in 1900.
