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    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...
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    philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity...
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    The MV Ocean Trader (ex-Cragside) is a Special Warfare Support vessel operated by the United States Military Sealift Command. The vessel has been proposed...
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    industrialist Sir William Armstrong. Between 1862 and 1865, Armstrong built Cragside, a country house and "shooting box" (hunting lodge) just outside Rothbury...
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  • Cragside estates of his cousin, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, but not his peerage. Armstrong decided to live at Bamburgh and gave Cragside,...
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    to generate power from river water were established at places such as Cragside in Northumberland and in recent decades there has been a significant increase...
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    Borglum in Sakura Park in Manhattan. A part of the Butterfield estate, "Cragside", is named for the rocky cliffs on the property. The house was built from...
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    when the industrialist Sir William Armstrong was made Baron Armstrong, of Cragside in the County of Northumberland. The title became extinct on his death...
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    Bamburgh Castle and village appeared in 2018 racing game Forza Horizon 4. Cragside Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1280155)". National...
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    the late 1860s at Cragside, a hilltop mansion of eclectic architectural styles that incorporated certain Tudor features; Cragside was designed by the...
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  • Retrieved 3 May 2019. "Local lass LJ Ross tops the charts with thriller Cragside". www.morpethherald.co.uk. Retrieved 21 October 2019. "Author notches up...
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    In 1878, the world's first hydroelectric power scheme was developed at Cragside in Northumberland, England, by William Armstrong. It was used to power...
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    1903 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Armstrong, of Bamburgh and Cragside in the County of Northumberland, a revival of the barony which had become...
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  • to depict the large rooftop of the Lockwood Estate. The exterior of the Cragside country house in Northumberland, England, along with its coniferous surroundings...
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    Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, Sir William Armstrong of Cragside presiding. Swan turned his attention to producing a better carbon filament...
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    development of the hydraulic crane and many military armaments. His house at Cragside, Northumberland was the first in the world to be lit by hydro-electricity...
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    The Life and Times of Sir William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Cragside. Longhirst. OCLC 505383763. Warren, Kenneth (2011). Armstrong: The Life...
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    Tipton, River Otter, 30 kW Rochdale, screw turbine and fishpass, 20 kW Cragside, the birthplace of hydroelectricity, 12 kW Tillydrone, Aberdeen Community...
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  • War II, Armstrong returned to the UK in 1946, splitting his time between Cragside and Bamburgh Castle. Armstrong died in 1972, and was succeeded by his son...
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    William Armstrong, engineer and inventor, born at Newcastle in 1810, built Cragside, one of the first houses powered by hydroelectric technology, near the...
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    hydroelectric power station was designed and built by William, Lord Armstrong at Cragside, England. It used water from lakes on his estate to power Siemens dynamos...
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    Northumberland, England. It was designed and built by Lord Armstrong of Cragside. William Armstrong (26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900) was an industrialist...
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    Range at Blitterlees Banks, as well as staying with Lord Armstrong at Cragside. He made a gift of £2,500 to Abdullah Quilliam to support the work of the...
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  • inaccurate report. On 9 July, a cordon was set up around the National Trust's Cragside estate in the parish of Cartington. Northumbria Police reported they had...
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  • Priest's House, Easton on the Hill Allen Banks & Staward Gorge Cherryburn Cragside Dunstanburgh Castle Farne Islands George Stephenson's Birthplace Hadrian's...
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    A copy of the play was given as a present to the Armstrong family in Cragside House, Rothbury, where it remains in the library. On a trip to the English...
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  • Lodge Clennell Hall Close House Collingwood House, Morpeth Coupland Castle Cragside Craster Tower Dally Castle Dilston Castle Dissington Hall Eglingham Hall...
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    section of the forest. The next major acquisition was in 1950, when the Cragside estate of William Watson-Armstrong, 2nd Baron Armstrong, leased 525 acres...
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  • Sissinghurst Castle Garden Studland Beach Blickling Hall Knole Farmer's Market Cragside Go To Jail Ightham Mote The National Trust Edition (2009) High Peak Estate...
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    maint: unfit URL (link) "William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Cragside (1810-1900)". Victorianweb.org. 22 December 2005. Retrieved 8 April 2014...
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