Cragside
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Cragside is a Tudor Revival country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England. Dating to the Victorian era, it was the home of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, founder of the A
"Truly the palace of a modern magician" – the Victorian periodical The World describes Armstrong and his house
Armstrong in the 1870s
The top-lit Gallery, formerly Armstrong's museum
The entrance front – Shaw's "Wagnerian" overture
Rothbury
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Rothbury is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, on the River Coquet. It is 14 miles north-west of Morpeth and 26 miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne. At the 2011 census, it had a
Cragside
…Cragside is a Tudor Revival country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England. Dating to the Victorian era, it was the home of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, founder of the Armstrong Whitworth…
Rothbury town centre
Looking east along Town Foot
Bernard Gilpin making Peace among the Borders by taking down the Glove in Rothbury Church, painting by artist William Bell Scott (1811–1890) and housed at Wallington Hall, one of a series of eight oil paintings illustrating the history of the English Border