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Cragside has featured in an Open University Arts Foundation Course, [129] Jonathan Meades's documentary series Abroad Again in Britain, [130] BBC One's Britain's Hidden Heritage, [131] Glorious Gardens from above, [132] Great Coastal Railway Journeys, [133] Hidden Treasures of the National Trust [134] and ITV's series Inside the National Trust ...
Armstrong decided to live at Bamburgh and gave Cragside, with 911 acres, to the British government in lieu of death duties. In 1977 the house was transferred to the National Trust through the National Land Fund, and Armstrong gave the Trust an endowment.
Armstrong's parents: William (right) and Ann (left), in two oil paintings held by the National Trust at Cragside. Armstrong was born in Newcastle upon Tyne at 9 Pleasant Row, Shieldfield , Although the house in which he was born no longer exists, an inscribed granite tablet marks the site where it stood. [ 1 ]
Between 1862 and 1865, Armstrong built Cragside, a country house and "shooting box" (hunting lodge) just outside Rothbury, and extended it as a "fairy palace" between 1869 and 1900. The house and its estate are now owned by the National Trust and are open to the public, attracting many visitors to the area.
National Trust, Cragside Emmerson also provided illustrations to children's books, including Afternoon Tea (1880) with J. G. Sowerby , and The May Blossom (1881), both published by Frederick Warne & Co .
In 1903 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Armstrong, of Bamburgh and Cragside in the County of Northumberland, [8] a revival of the barony which had become extinct on his great-uncle's death three years earlier. Lord Armstrong was married three times. He married firstly Winifreda Jane Adye, daughter of General Sir John Miller Adye, in 1889 ...
An Act to amend the National Trust Acts 1907 to 1939 to confer further powers upon the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty and upon the council thereof and for other purposes. Citation: 1 & 2 Eliz. 2. c. vii: Dates; Royal assent: 6 May 1953: Text of statute as originally enacted
Armstrong was born in 1892 as the first child of the businessman William Watson-Armstrong and Winifreda Jane (née Adye). When Armstrong was 11 in 1903, his father was created Baron Armstrong after inheriting his industrialist great-uncle's wealth but not title in 1900, at which point he became The Hon William Watson-Armstrong.