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1882: Day trip to Hastings for Cuckfield Holy Trinity Church Choir

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 25 July 1882 Through the kind hospitality of the Vicar of Cuckfield, the adult members of the choir of Holy...

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Jan 14, 20231 min read

1909: Why 'them and us' in the Churchyard?

That Mr Robert Martin, who has lived in Cuckfield since 1872, is about to remove to the North of England. That the Baptist cause in the...

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Dec 31, 20221 min read

1853: Fun on the vicar's lawn

On Thursday last the children of the National School, together with these of the Dame Schools, and the Union children, received their...

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Dec 17, 20221 min read

1873: Christmas church decorations

The interior of the church has been splendidly set off for Christmas by the hands of the ladies, who have spared no pains in perfecting...

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Dec 11, 20222 min read

1955: Journalist and Foreign Office adviser dies

Mr Wilbraham Villiers Cooper, OBE, died yesterday at his home in London at the age of 79. Born in 1876, he received his early schooling...

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Oct 31, 20221 min read

1945: Curious Cuckfield Will

Mid Sussex times Wednesday 21 March 1945 curious Sussex wills. article in the county magazine. That old wills are not the dry as dust...

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Oct 19, 20222 min read

1934: Vicar dies after motorcycling accident in Broad Street

Worthing Gazette - Wednesday 21 March 1934 Former Sompting Vicar. TRAGIC DEATH OF THE REV. A. V. HOUSMAN AFTER A MOTORCYCLING ACCIDENT....

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Oct 10, 20221 min read

1776: Church struck by lightning causes fires

A letter from Cuckfield in Suffolk [Sussex], dated August 3, says, that last Friday in the afternoon they had a violent storm of thunder...

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Sep 21, 20221 min read

1879: Workers at Holy Trinity Church badly injured in accident

Petersfield Express - Tuesday 29 April 1879 CUCKFIELD- SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE CHURCH.— On Tuesday morning an alarming occurrence took...

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Sep 17, 20223 min read

1980: Reflections on the practice of 'pew renting' at Church

Cuckfield parish magazine May 1980 THE RENTING OF PEWS by JW and MW (contributors) The practise of pew renting went on well into this...

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Aug 19, 20221 min read

1925: Organ contracted 'double pneumonia'

Cuckfield Giving his annual report on the Wesleyan Church, on Good Friday, Mr Blackburn (Steward) said they wanted a new organ. Their...

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Jul 28, 20222 min read

1610: Daring Robert's fatal fall

This is an extract of an account of a talk given to the Cuckfield Women’s Institute by Miss Marion Cooper daughter of the former vicar...

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Jul 26, 20227 min read

1971: The man behind decoy airfields

Sir Douglas Claude Strathern Evill Buried in Cuckfield churchyard is a senior officer of the RAF who had an interesting life during...

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Jul 22, 20222 min read

1945: Cuckfield sale to get Church clock ticking again

Opening a Christmas gift sale at the Queens Hall, Cuckfield last Wednesday in aid of a fund to repair the church clock, Mrs MH Eyre...

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Jul 20, 20222 min read

1732-1796: Sir William Burrell - keen local historian

An account of travels through Sussex with Sir William Burrell by Francis Grose in May 1777 Following a visit by Sussex Historic Churches...

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Jul 18, 20223 min read

2015: Expert analysis of the Church

In 1992 Cuckfield held a week of celebrations to mark the 900th anniversary of the church, one highlight being lunch in the High Street...

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Jul 16, 20221 min read

2007: Not a dry eye in the house

These two sad epitaphs in the Cuckfield churchyard are to be found in David Arscott's book 'Dead and Buried in Sussex'. It was in 1775...

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Jun 5, 20221 min read

1912: Daredevil headstand on the battlements

These few words taken from an article of a talk given by Canon Cooper in 1912 sends shivers down the spine - and no - do not endeavour to...

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May 29, 20221 min read

Humour to the last

This splendid epitaph is attributed to Cuckfield: Long was my pain, great was my grief, Surgeons I'd many, but no relief. I trust in...

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May 5, 20222 min read

Chapel completed and with 'Cuckfield' stone

You may have heard that recently the Lancing College Chapel has finally been completed, 154 years after the foundation stone for this...

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