Cragside is a beautiful house! I have visited once and would like to go back and spend more time the exploring the house and estate, there is so much to see!
Absolutely excellent tour. Pity modern tours aren't done half as well as this one. I would however have liked bathrooms included but apart from that, great viewing.
A great deal better than the film done by Jonathan Meades whcih seemed like he went there only to sneer at it - but then to be fair, he sneers at pretty much everything.
We used to go there in the 1960s and 70s with our parents - lovely place. I remember my mother (a keen gardener) explaining the rhododenrans had taken over and in a sense were a weed, even to be feared as not native to the UK.
I have a good sense of direction (climbed all Munros in Scotland), and can find my way around in castles etc. But Cragside is full of corridors and staircases that go this way and that way, with secret places all over the place. Fascinating place.
Colin Cunnham did a series of these house tours for the OU's "Arts Foundation" course (alas no longer offered) back in the 1980s - all were excellent. This could do with a restoration to do some colour correction and to fix that horrible vertical frame jitter - does anyone know who has the master? The OU told me some years ago that they don't hold it and I never got a reply from BBC. Henrietta Heald's wonderful biography of Armstrong (which covers the acquisition of Cragside and its development to what we see here) makes clear what a remarkable man Sir William was - but also his amazing ability to live two lives. Making enormous money by being - as Colin Cunningham says here - the first international arms dealer - but also funding or undertaking many charitable works for the poor and disadvantaged. A complex man.
Thank you! I've wanted to learn more about this remarkable man from the moment I first heard of him! A little more about Craigside couldn't hurt either, what a breathtaking place!!
it's just ignorance & simplemindedness that any person wealthy or poor think they are above another human & hold more importance. the maids quarters " are quite nice with a bed, water pipes for heat & oh look a window these slaves.. uh i mean servants were surely in comfort." would you like more tea sir?.. Call me Lord Damn it now bring my switch you shall have 10 lashes for your Blasphemy, after every strike you shall say "{ thank you may i have another) indeed you shall
Cragside is a beautiful house! I have visited once and would like to go back and spend more time the exploring the house and estate, there is so much to see!
Absolutely excellent tour. Pity modern tours aren't done half as well as this one. I would however have liked bathrooms included but apart from that, great viewing.
A great deal better than the film done by Jonathan Meades whcih seemed like he went there only to sneer at it - but then to be fair, he sneers at pretty much everything.
We used to go there in the 1960s and 70s with our parents - lovely place. I remember my mother (a keen gardener) explaining the rhododenrans had taken over and in a sense were a weed, even to be feared as not native to the UK.
I have a good sense of direction (climbed all Munros in Scotland), and can find my way around in castles etc. But Cragside is full of corridors and staircases that go this way and that way, with secret places all over the place. Fascinating place.
Cragside was the first house in the world to be lit using hydroelectric power
The first UK house to have a lift (elevator) in it too I think?
Yes, that is true.
Colin Cunnham did a series of these house tours for the OU's "Arts Foundation" course (alas no longer offered) back in the 1980s - all were excellent. This could do with a restoration to do some colour correction and to fix that horrible vertical frame jitter - does anyone know who has the master? The OU told me some years ago that they don't hold it and I never got a reply from BBC.
Henrietta Heald's wonderful biography of Armstrong (which covers the acquisition of Cragside and its development to what we see here) makes clear what a remarkable man Sir William was - but also his amazing ability to live two lives. Making enormous money by being - as Colin Cunningham says here - the first international arms dealer - but also funding or undertaking many charitable works for the poor and disadvantaged. A complex man.
Thank you! I've wanted to learn more about this remarkable man from the moment I first heard of him! A little more about Craigside couldn't hurt either, what a breathtaking place!!
it's just ignorance & simplemindedness that any person wealthy or poor think they are above another human & hold more importance. the maids quarters " are quite nice with a bed, water pipes for heat & oh look a window these slaves.. uh i mean servants were surely in comfort." would you like more tea sir?.. Call me Lord Damn it now bring my switch you shall have 10 lashes for your Blasphemy, after every strike you shall say "{ thank you may i have another) indeed you shall
That servants room was bigger than my dorm at university. Youre a bit of a weird one you.