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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 Armstrong , founder of the Armstrong Whitworth armaments firm.
Expanding his landholdings around Cragside, Lord Armstrong acquired Cragend, a nearby 16th-century farmhouse [7] two miles south of Rothbury. [8] He started work on modernising the farm in the 1880s, [ 8 ] and around 1895 built the experimental hydraulic silo building now known as Cragend Silo.
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The title became extinct on his death in 1900. The title was revived three years later, on 4 August 1903, for his great-nephew William Watson-Armstrong, who was created Baron Armstrong, of Bamburgh and of Cragside in the County of Northumberland. Born William Watson, he had assumed the additional surname of Armstrong by Royal licence in 1889.
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Director Shane Meadows adapted the novel as a BBC television drama, co-produced by Element Pictures and A24, [5] first broadcast on BBC Two on 31 May 2023. [6] The popularity of the series led to a large surge in visitors to the nearby large village of Mytholmroyd , and the smaller Heptonstall where most of the Shane Meadows series was filmed.
In 1939 a company named "Vistad" in Valjevo was founded by engineer Nikola Stanković. It produced small caliber (12 kg) aircraft bomb, hand offensive grenades, infantry rifle ammunition. During WWII, farm equipment was produced. [2] After WWII factory was nationalized and renamed to Military-Technical Institute of Valjevo.