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Cragside
Cragside is a wonder of the Victorian age, the place 'a magician of the north' created as a crucible of invention. William, Baron Armstrong of Cragside was decades ahead of his times in the way he harnessed nature to generate both hydraulic and electrical power. With the profits of his burgeoning industrial industrial enterprises along the River Tyne in Newcastle, he emplyed Richard Norman Shaw to enlarge in stages a simple villa into an impressive country house. It pioneered many of the domestic conveinences which we now take for granted and acted as a showcase for a stream of visitors from many countries as well as royalty.
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64 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2019
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January 13, 2023
I was disappointed by this as it felt more focused on the people and a mini biography of them than about the house itself, and what you see when you visit. I see the author wrote a biography of William Armstrong (the owner), which explains this slant, but there's not as much focus on the actual place and the house as I would have liked for a guidebook, which this is sold as. I have since come across an older guidebook which does this more effectively.
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