Home Comforts At The Dower House

A Memory of Bletchingley.

My maternal grandfather Ernest Cording was the private secretary to Mr Augustus Brandt, of Bletchingley Castle, before WWII at William Brandt's London offices and was asked to move from Upminster in Essex to live at Hill Cottage or The Dower House on Castle Hill in late 1939 when key employees were "evacuated" to Bletchingley. Hill Cottage was often used as accommodation for visiting staff my Grandmother acting as housekeeper. My family, Grandmother, Mother Phyllis and Father Ronald, and me, from 1947, remained in residence after the death of my Grandfather in 1946 until May 1950 when we moved to Reigate.
I have memories of the "Home Farm" now Castle Farm which was managed by "Jock" Sinclair who in the early 50s moved to manage another Brandt family farm Henhaw Farm South Nutfield.
Other bits of history of The Dower House known to me is that during WWI it was used as a convalescent home for wounded service personnel. Chris Todd.