Cuckfield Connections

A detailed agreement was written in November 1528 to guide trustees on managing the school in future. It is held at the West Sussex...

Edmund Flower, founder of Cuckfield Grammar School, was a master tailor who will have served an apprenticeship to learn his craft. He was...

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’....

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...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 06 November 1845 CUCKFIELD UNION WANTED, A SCHOOLMASTER for the Workhouse, who must be well qualified to...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 29 May 1862 CUCKFIELD. Treat to the Union House Children. A kind invitation having been given by Captain Meek...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 07 December 1843 CUCKFIELD. On Friday last a quantity of wearing apparel and books were given to the children...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 03 October 1933 THE LATE MISS EDITH ANNIE PAYNE: CUCKFIELD PARTICULARS OF HER GIFT TO THE URBAN COUNCIL...

West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 24 January 1929 DEATH OF MR. W. HERRINGTON. Older residents have learned with much regret of the death of...

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

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 31 October 1844 CUCKFIELD. Since our respected Vicar has been among us, he has made the most strenuous...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 27 April 1915 WAR MEDALS. INTERESTING LECTURE AT CUCKFIELD. The men of the Post Office Rifles who are billeted...