Granny's House, Jacks Platt, Horney Common

A Memory of Uckfield.

My mum was born there but came to Wales when war broke out as she was in care at the time. She stayed with a couple who had lost their own child and who eventually 'adopted' her so she never returned, but always told us tales of where she lived. I remember there being a monkey puzzle corner somewhere in the directions to get to granny's. The first time I visited was when I was about 6 or 7. The 'house' was one storey with a tin roof, she had beds with the bottom legs on bricks 'to keep the blood flowing'. I went again when I was about 9, and at 17 with my future husband, but then lost touch with the english side of the family after Granny died. They had a small holding with a outside loo which we had to take a bucket to flush - great fun. There were freshly laid eggs for breakfast and we would go down to collect them. Pop (gran's second husband) kept goats and pigs as well as a productive vegetable plot where we swere allowed to pull out carrots for dinner. 'Poop rinsing' them in a bucket and we munched on them on the walk back to the kitchen. We went nut gathering down the lanes and visited a field where a plane had crashed in the war, sadly the airmen were killed. I think there was some sort of memorial but not really sure. I have tried to google Jacks Platt but nothing seems to come up -another piece of history lost?