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WISH HILL
Also my Uncle Ken was born there too. My grandfather lived there and worked at Ratton Manor. As I am researching the family history, does anyone have any information on the Manor, which was owned by Lord and Lady Willingdon? If so, email me please with any info at: daveparris977@btinternet.com
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I spent many a happy hour playing in Ratton Woods and in and around the Manor. This was circa 1950-53. It was a wonderful, sprawling, 'chaotic' area for us kids to wander around, often seeing nobody else over a period of several hours. The Manor was wrecked, as a result of a fire during occupation by the US Army in WWII, we were told. The discovery of a live 50-caliber machine gun bullet one day seemed to confirm the occupation story. There was a stagnant lily pond, approached down a wide set of steps from the 'quadrangle' area in front of what had been the main structure, two small, low-roofed, flint-rock-built storage buildings one each side of the steps, a deep, tiled swimming pool, and a well (in which the remains of a newborn baby were found). My late pal John Clacy lived on Wish Hill, which made it very convenient for our exploration of Ratton. The father of another old pal, Ron Dyson, managed what was left of Ratton Estate on the East side of Willingdon Road. It broke my heart when I returned from overseas with the RAF to find Ratton had become a building development.
Comment from David Patterson on Thursday, 16th June 2011.