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Architectural Building Attractions In Ecclefechan

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Ecclefechan is a small village in the south of Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway, famous for being the birthplace of poet and author Thomas Carlyle. It also has two food types called after it: the ecclefechan tart and ecclefechan whisky.
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Architectural Building Attractions In Ecclefechan

  • 1. Cragside House and Gardens Rothbury
    Cragside is a Victorian 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. An industrial magnate, scientist, philanthropist and inventor of the hydraulic crane and the Armstrong gun, Armstrong also displayed his inventiveness in the domestic sphere, making Cragside the first house in the world to be lit using hydroelectric power. The entire estate was technologically advanced; the architect of the house, Richard Norman Shaw, wrote that it was equipped with wonderful hydraulic machines that do all sorts of things. In the grounds, Armstrong built dams and created lakes to power a sawmill, a water-powered laundry, early versions of a dishwasher and a dumb waiter, a hy...
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