Another fabulous weather day enjoying England, at Cragside today with our friends Sheila & Paul and their children. Cragside House itself is impressive, built in the mid 1800s by William Armstrong and sitting in vast spectacular grounds:
We first headed to the hilltop lakes, man-made also in the 1800s to create a head of water for Armstrong’s inventions such as a hydraulically powered lift in the house and, eventually, hydro-electric generation! But before all that, a picnic and walk around the lakes:
Later, we toured the house, set up still as it would have been back in the late 1800s:
We also found repeats of our trip a few times – this Olympic flower decoration for example:
Finally, we learned that it was Armstrong that supplied the equipment that operated Tower Bridge, that we visited a while ago:
M&I / GBMINI 
I want you two to adopt me! Period!