Cuckfield Connections

Merchant Taylors’ Livery Company and the livery companies are the source of the expression ‘being at 6’s and 7’s' . The Old School...

This article explains how tailors would learn their craft and progress through the trade and, on successful completion, become ‘freemen’....

Mid Sussex Times November 26th 1982 A Romance that began below stairs King George V and Queen Mary in gilded coaches, a Russian princess,...

Mid Sussex Times: October 8th 1982 Pot-pourri of hospital history The changes in social attitudes and medical care that transformed the...

Mid Sussex Times January 27 1989 They made gloves fit for a Queen Cuckfield once had a thriving glove-making industry, and Queen Mary...

The Fraternity of our Blessed Lady In the 15th and early 16th centuries villagers would have been grateful for the work of the Fraternity...

For the past couple of weeks we have been revealing the latest research on Edmund Flower, the school founder, and we thought you might be...

Cuckfield Grammar School was one of many grammar schools being set up in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Some of these...

The Merchant Taylors’ plan to introduce a new charter* sent shockwaves through the clothing industry. Some tailors would be deprived of...

Edmund Flower, the founder of Cuckfield Grammar School, was a member of - and for two years Master of - the Merchant Taylors' Company,...

Part 1 of this article is Edmund Flower, Cuckfield school founder 1/2 Researched and written by Malcolm Davison Tailors ‘merchants for...

Researched and written by Malcolm Davison You will find the first article at: 1492: Edmund Flower welcomes the King back to London It's...

Contributed and researched by Malcolm Davison. In the first of a series of over a dozen articles,  and after two years research, we look...

Malcolm Davison gives the background into his research on Edmund Flower, founder of Cuckfield Grammar School. A series of articles will...

It is with feelings of deep regret that we have to record the death of Mr Twynihoe William Erle, who for many years lived at Mill Hall,...

Although we covered this story in October 2020 the following obituary has been found that appeared in national press and gives us more...

The loan exhibition On Monday next the Loan Exhibition, illustrating the Age of Chivalry and the Religious and Civil Life of the Middle...

The impending reirement of Mr William Crick Following our earlier posting we have unearthed another account, two years after the first,...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 13 April 1915 A CUCKFIELD WORTHY MONSIGNORE R. H. BENSON’S FAVOURITE NOVELIST. AN ALMOST FORGOTTEN GRAVE. By...

When I was growing up I used to enjoy the BBC children's TV programme about art presented by Adrian Hill in from 1955-1963 called...