10th
January 2017 (Tuesday)
.... 09.00 We have a mostly overcast
sky, but it’s dry, and looks like the sun could break through later; I might go for a walk,
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| Lovely cars |
but with the reserves
being no go areas, I’m left with walking streets or roads.... and they are not
relaxing, nor healthy places, being traffic laden. Having said that when I can get onto the
Nature Reserves it’s brilliant.... and they are all around the edge of
Uckfield. Must go ... ‘slight flap on’; I need a cuppa.
22.00 I wandered through some ‘new’ (to me)
Uckfield streets this afternoon; a real
mix of houses from 100 years old through to modern(ish).... the streets were quiet compared to the through
road Uckfield High Street/ London Road.
The total distance I walked was 4.27 kilometres (2.6 miles)... with two
stops. I had soup at ‘The Ringles’
followed by coffee and a toasted teacake at the Civic Centre. It was in ‘The Ringles’ that I remembered to
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| Uckfield houses. |
switch ‘on’ the tracker app in the phone:
having already walked ‘iggzactly’ a
kilometre to get there it was easy to add that onto the final
total. I was pleasantly surprised to
find Leeann working today. While having
my cuppa I chatted to a gent sitting next to me, he was about my own age
(40+?), and discovered that he was Sussex born and bred. He was telling me that they (developers)
are going to build another 1,000 houses on the edge of Uckfield, knocking down
a wood to make room for the houses.
Not good .... but the new, relaxed, ‘rools’ do allow this to
‘happen’. The small Sussex village
that the man was born in (not Uckfield) has ‘disappeared’ into the middle
of huge, and in most cases boring,
housing estates. This is what has
happened to Uckfield.... the High Street and a few short Streets, or roads running off it, make up what was the original
Uckfield: ‘new’ Uckfield is just a
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| Quiet corner of 'older' Uckfield. |
mass
of housing built with little local empathy.
They have left a few oak trees dotted throughout the estates to remind
us of what was! Luckily Uckfield is
surrounded by its Nature Reserves .... at present! The ‘master plan’ is to build ‘new’ housing
estates on what was the Ridgewood Farm
fields etc. .... with the population increasing at the rate it is, this is the
way it has to be. Hopefully the new estate will be less ‘housing
estate’ looking than previous ‘new builds’.
Photographs
: Top – a couple of bonnie looking vintage cars, Middle – a row of Uckfield
houses... the date on the plaque is 1900.
The houses don’t look that old! and Bottom – Pudding Cake Lane.
