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Built on an old tip, the Longridge estate was soon nicknamed 'Ratridge' by the residents of the middle-class Cheshire market town where it was constructed.
The overspill estate was created on the outskirts of Knutsford as part of the inner-city slum clearances of the 1960s. It came with the promise of fresh air, modern homes, countryside and opportunity. But it wasn’t always easy for the newcomers who moved there.
"People in Knutsford were not friendly, and they treated Longridge residents as 'interlopers'," Rose Oliver, one of the early tenants, told Creation of a Community, an online history of the estate.
"For example, the shopkeepers served Knutsford people ahead of Longridge residents, even though they were behind them in the queue. I felt that there was a divide between more middle-class people in Knutsford town and the working-class who moved to Longridge. Those in Knutsford saw Longridge people as riff-raff."
Reporter Damon Wilkinson has been looking at the history of the estate and tells all in this fascinating feature here.
He visited the town and spoke to Pat Marney - who was a young mum with another baby on the way when she left Burnage for Knutsford in 1976.
"They moved people in before the estate was built. Other people told me when they came there was no shops, no pub, the pavements were just mud paths,” she said. "My husband was still working in Manchester so I was on my own all day. I was 22-years-old, expecting and away from my family for the first time. It was heart-breaking at first."
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