Lou is the owner of Cragend Farm with her husband Shaun, and deals with everything from Holiday Accommodation inquiries to egg collection from the chickens; she is the social media and web design finger-tapper.
Remembrance Day 11th November 2018
100 Year Anniversary of the end of the First World War.
George Thompson went to war in 1940 having been the eldest son at Cragend Farm, who did not need to go because he was a farm worker. However, he felt it was his duty to go, and he sadly died, killed in action. His younger brother James (Jimmy) then took over the farm.
There is a memorial to him on the Cragside Drive walk from Dunkirk to The Cock Crows Stone along the Gun Walk near Cragend Quarry.
We have attached a video of a 1935 piece of cine film taken of the farm, which shows what the farm was like in those days.
Find Out More About Cragend
Cragend Farm has a interesting and diverse history, from technical innovations to historic buildings. Tied in closely to the neighbouring Cragside Estate home of Victorian inventor and industrialist Lord Armstrong.