1931 1945 School Walk To The V

A Memory of Plumpton.

This is actually my father's memory, told to me as I am researching our family history. My father, Douglas March, grew up in Plumpton Green from 1931 - 1944. He lived with his parents and sister, at a house called Hilltop, at the top of the main road until about 1941-42, when a parachute bomb damaged the house. The family moved further back down into the village to a house called Fir Croft, on the corner of Chapel Lane. They moved from Fir Croft in late 1944/early 1945 and the house then became a butchers shop. It is now called Devon House - the Stove shop. My father remembers a school trip where the children walked from the village school on Ascension day up to the 'V' on the South Downs, almost opposite Streat. He also mentioned collecting the silks attached to the parachute bomb and selling them for about £7-8, which was a lot of money then. His mother's family (Pratts) lived in Coxes Cottages and her sister Ethel Mary (May) also lived in one of these cottages after she married Frank Burberry. I wonder if anyone else has any memories about a school walk to the V or the parachute bomb dropping, or indeed about the Pratt / Burberry families? Both families had connections in the brick works.

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