Weather much better today, lovely and warm and sunny and wind had dropped. Got a ticket for Bamburgh Castle which is about 5 miles further up the coast. I have always wanted to go there and it did not disappoint.
The castle is perched on a cliff top overlooking the sea with stunning views of the beautiful stretch of beach down below and the Farne Islands just off the shore. If the pictures of the car, gun and aeroplane engine seem a bit out of place the castle is owned by the Armstrong family. It was purchased in 1894 by William George Armstrong a wealthy inventor and industrialist who designed and built hydraulic cranes, bridges, guns and ships. He also built Cragside as his family home which was the first house in the world to be lit by hydro electricity and is now owned by the National Trust. His company eventually became Armstrong Whitworth and then Armstrong Siddeley, well known for the manufacture of cars and aircraft engines, and later became part of Rolls Royce.
The castle is perched on a cliff top overlooking the sea with stunning views of the beautiful stretch of beach down below and the Farne Islands just off the shore. If the pictures of the car, gun and aeroplane engine seem a bit out of place the castle is owned by the Armstrong family. It was purchased in 1894 by William George Armstrong a wealthy inventor and industrialist who designed and built hydraulic cranes, bridges, guns and ships. He also built Cragside as his family home which was the first house in the world to be lit by hydro electricity and is now owned by the National Trust. His company eventually became Armstrong Whitworth and then Armstrong Siddeley, well known for the manufacture of cars and aircraft engines, and later became part of Rolls Royce.
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