Craigends of the 20th Century a Renfrewshire estate remembered

I was brought up at Woodend until I joined the Army in 1969. I remember being sent round to Craigends as a child dressed in my kilt, for tea on a Sunday with Mrs Cunningham and Mrs or was it Miss Pearson. I walked there from Woodend down the long avenue with which I was very familiar. She (Cunningham) talked about sailing to Australia in an old-fashioned sailing ship the journey lasting six months.

I am just left with the impression of the conversation rather than detail. When she died the house was left to Bill Cunningham. He became a great friend of our family but I do not think he lived in the big house itself but in a cottage on the estate. It was a courtyard I think. Might have been near the stables. The furniture for this vast house was left to other member(s) of the family so it became empty once they had claimed their inheritance. Some was sold off I think.