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Oct 30, 20232 min read

1938: Cuckfield Park's lime tree avenue was twice as long

Not many people know that the lime tree avenue at Cuckfield Park once extended over the Cuckfield village / Ansty road and across the...

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Oct 28, 20231 min read

1917: Did villagers read burial service backwards at midnight?

Dear Sir, I was very interested in reading your account of Mrs. Sergison. I should like to know if there is any truth in the legend that...

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Oct 23, 20234 min read

1912: The compelling Mr Crick

Willam Crick was a well known evangelist who travelled widely in Mid Sussex. Cuckfield was his home for several years, and also where he...

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Oct 19, 20232 min read

1903: Daguerrotype star performer

We regret to record the death of another old and respected townsman who studied art in its severest sense and was one of the earliest...

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Sep 29, 20231 min read

1912: Memorial drinking fountain

West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 8 August 1912 On Thursday night the Cuckfield Urban District Council agreed to accept an offer made by...

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Sep 24, 20232 min read

1919: Edith of Borde Hill marries an Olympian

Another Monday wedding is Miss Edith Stephenson. Clarke's, the fortunate man being Mr Cyril Winthrop Mackworth-Praed, a gallant Scots...

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Sep 22, 20232 min read

1822: Cobbett rides through Cuckfield

Sussex Journal: Through Croydon, Godstone, East-Grinstead, and Uckfield, to Lewes, and Brighton; Returning by Cuckfield, Worth and...

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Sep 21, 20231 min read

1935: The local builder who helped shape Cuckfield

KNIGHT After a long period of failing health the death occurred late on Sunday of Mr Stephen Knight, Brocketts Whiteman’s Green. Both his...

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Sep 16, 20231 min read

1930: Memorial for celebrated author

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 08 April 1930 Admirers of Henry Kingsley, the well known novelist, will be gratified to learn that steps are...

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Aug 20, 20233 min read

1981: Known by anybody who is anybody

With a name like Joseph Rubido, a working life which has taken in such places as poshest Cuckfield and even posher Bruton Place, W1, my...

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Aug 16, 20234 min read

1899: An advisor to Queen Victoria dies

Cuckfield ‘Universal sympathy with the bereaved family of Sir Charles Lennox Peel’ Gentlewoman , 26 August 1899 . [Died 19 August 1899]...

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Aug 1, 20232 min read

1914: Liberal MP and noted orator born at Tentercroft

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 09 June 1914 THE LATE MR. SILVESTER HORNE, MP. To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times. Dear Sir,—All the world...

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Jul 20, 20231 min read

1912: Mr Bevan's Birthday treats for Cuckfield

Brighton Gazette - Wednesday 17 July 1912 Mr. R. A. Bevan’s Birthday. Mr. R. A. Bevan, J.P., of Horsgate, Cuckfield, reached his 78th...

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Jul 10, 20232 min read

1868: Sudden death of Warden Sergison

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 28 May 1868 CUCKFIELD. Sudden Death of Warden Sergison, Esq. On Friday last, Mr Sergison, the highly...

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May 21, 20234 min read

1912: Thomas Bannister 'left nothing undone'

Brighton Gazette - Wednesday 03 July 1912 LATE MR. T. BANNISTER. Well-Known Mid-Sussex Auctioneer. A notable Mid-Sussex figure has been...

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May 20, 20233 min read

1903: Florence wins a bet

Mademoiselle Florence was bet $2500 she could not walk from London to Brighton in 6 days - she not only managed it but did much better...

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May 18, 20231 min read

1954: Did Dick Whittington live in Cuckfield?

The news cutting above is intriguing. We can confirm that records show that Elizabeth M Wadstein lived at Ridgecote, Copyhold Lane in...

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Apr 14, 20233 min read

1848: Railway porter and ex slave was 'highly respected' in Haywards Heath

Many thanks to Mike Anton for researching and providing this fascinating story about the earliest days of the Railways at Haywards...

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Apr 8, 20233 min read

1929: Eyewitness accounts of the Kingsleys in Cuckfield

STORIES OF HENRY KINGSLEY A lady, who as a child lived with her mother opposite the Kingsley’s house in Cuckfield, and her husband, Mr....

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Apr 7, 20232 min read

1957: Airey Neave at Queen's Hall

Airey Neave was an extraordinary individual but defined by his untimely at the Houses of Parliament by a bomb placed under his car. The...

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