Cragside

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Cragside. This shot was taken from a colour negative and scanned then enhanced in Photoshop.
Cragside was built for the 1st Lord Armstrong as a weekend retreat.

The original house was modest but over the years it expanded into a country mansion. The building was designed in part by Norman Shaw an exponent of Victorian Gothic and its picturesque outline fits in well with the wooded hills surrounding the house.

Lord Armstrong was a lawyer who took up a second career as an inventor, gunmaker and engineer.

His scientific knowledge was put to good use at Cragside.

The house was the first in the world to be lit by hydro-electricity. The kitchen was equipped with a hydraulic service lift and a spit powered by water from a lake above the house.

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