The Farndales of Craggs Hill
The story of the family of Matthew
Farndale
A family
gripe …
The adopted
daughter of Matthew
Farndale’s niece, Mary Ann
Farndale, Nora Bovill, of the
Bishop Auckland Line had vivid memories of holidays at Cragg Hall Farm. she was adamant that
she knew it is Cragg and not Craggs. Matthew Farndale,
affectionately called Mattha by Mary Ann and Nora Bovill, was an elderly
widower by then and he appeared to enjoy her fussing over him. Nora remembered a beautiful rose garden
hidden at the back of the farm seen only by those at the farm, with fruit
bushes dripping with berries, and she remembers taking the farmworkers lunches
out to the fields at midday, and being allowed to go shopping on her own to Carlin How or Brotton when she was only 5 or 6 at the time.
She remembered reading Pilgrims Progress in the rarely used ‘front room’ A special treat was to be taken for rides
in the side car of Herbert
Farndale’s motor bike. Herbert,
Matthews’ son was presumably running Craggs farm by this stage.
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