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.
This photograph is of James and George Thompson who lived at Cragend Farm. Their parents were tenants of Lord Armstrong of Cragside. It was taken in 1921. The hay cart would have been driven onto the weighbridge to be weighed, and then the hay stored wither in the Dutch Barn or inside in the main barn. We have many horseshoes left over from this period when the heavy horses did all the hard work. They are brothers. Sadly, George was killed in World War II but James (Jimmy) lived here until his death (2007?)
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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.