Hawthorn House.
Hi Jinnan,
In my recollection,ie 1950's onwards, your place was "George Craiggs farm".This is the same Craiggs family as the buses as George was a cousin I think. He had what could be called a larger type smallholding/ small farm and farmed the fields behind your house and those between the school and South Dandsfield also the field to the North of North Dandsfield. He usually made sure one of the fields was cut and available for the school sports each year. He was a batchelor and lived with his sister but seemed to sell up about the time of the opencast, 1970ish and ended his days in Amble. If you check the Radcliffe site the Radcliffe map shows your house directly opposite North Dandsfield.
The 1911 census shows the Craiggs family living there but seems to be before George took up farming as he is 16 years old and is a "fitter at colliery", his father is down as "Engine Wright colliery above ground". A brother,Henry,"joiner at colliery" was there along with a sister Elizabeth Mary and mother Margaret.
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