31st
January 2017 (Tuesday)
.... 09.00 Mmmmmm .... we have dour
looking weather this morning..... overcast, with fog, and it looks like it will
rain soon;
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| Uckfield Street sign |
not a bonnie start to the
day. My immediate ‘plan’ is to walk over
to “Grants Hill”, but I’m thinkin’ the weather, the weather forecast for later
in the day isn’t promising, might put an end to that mission. I’m thinkin’ that a cuppa would be a good
idea.
22.30 The desire to see the “Grants Hill House”
site was stronger than the instinct to stay dry so I did in fact go out in the morning..... and found where
Grants Hill House once stood. The
building that is there now is a typical, boring, once functional no doubt, Care
Home .... now boarded up and due to be demolished; and not even forty years old. “Grants Hill House” was an impressive
building standing about 200 metres from Uckfield Parish Church; there
is one copyrighted photo of the house, (which I can’t use), but I
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| Boarded up former Care Home |
cannot
find any records of when it was built etc.
It seems that its history began with the late night visit from Lord
Lucan on 7th November 1974..... and ended when it was demolished 10 years
later. With the weather forecast being
what it is for tomorrow I’ll have plenty of time to look for its (Grants Hill
House) early history; it is to be grey
and dreich again
“No
1” has been going like a mill all day today with visitors from 10.00 right
through to 17.00. Pauline and Geoff, (Janice’s sister and her husband) are originally from London but have lived is
Sussex most of their lives.... brought ‘lunch’ with them; this pleased “Puku”, who is thriving down
here. He’s due for a shock in a couple
of weeks! Pauline brought real food, including a homemade,
melt in the
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| A quiet corner of Uckfield. |
mouth, walnut cake ....oh my goodness that was scrumptious. Yes ‘the boy’ will have to go on a diet
when he gets back to Ivy!
‘Nae
plans’ for tomorrow... the weather forecast, as i said earlier, is not
good. I may walk along to the Ringles
for some exercise depending on how ‘poor’ the weather is.
Photographs
: Top – The only sign I found with the name Grants Hill House on it, Middle – the
present building, a ‘not fit for purpose’ Care home, and Bottom – neighbouring
houses.
