Guidelines for running the school
A detailed agreement was written in November 1528 to guide trustees on managing the school in future. It is held at the West Sussex...
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Cuckfield Connections
A personal journey of discovery
Jun 152 min read
C15th: Tailoring trade - a model for 21st century
Edmund Flower, founder of Cuckfield Grammar School, was a master tailor who will have served an apprenticeship to learn his craft. He was...
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Jun 142 min read
What links 6’s and 7’s and ‘the Old School’?
Merchant Taylors’ Livery Company and the livery companies are the source of the expression ‘being at 6’s and 7’s' . The Old School...
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Jun 123 min read
c1470: Apprenticeship in tailoring
This article explains how tailors would learn their craft and progress through the trade and, on successful completion, become ‘freemen’....
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May 216 min read
1520: Cuckfield’s early welfare support
The Fraternity of our Blessed Lady In the 15th and early 16th centuries villagers would have been grateful for the work of the Fraternity...
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May 174 min read
The Edmund Flower research project
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...
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May 146 min read
1503/4: School founding date and other Tudor schools
Cuckfield Grammar School was one of many grammar schools being set up in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Some of these...
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May 107 min read
1503: Flower V City's vote to bribe the King
The Merchant Taylors’ plan to introduce a new charter* sent shockwaves through the clothing industry. Some tailors would be deprived of...
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May 75 min read
c15th: Merchant Taylors, who were (are) they?
Edmund Flower, the founder of Cuckfield Grammar School, was a member of - and for two years Master of - the Merchant Taylors' Company,...
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May 414 min read
Edmund Flower, Cuckfield school founder 2/2
Part 1 of this article is Edmund Flower, Cuckfield school founder 1/2 Researched and written by Malcolm Davison Tailors ‘merchants for...
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May 115 min read
Edmund Flower, Cuckfield school founder 1/2
Researched and written by Malcolm Davison You will find the first article at: 1492: Edmund Flower welcomes the King back to London It's...
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Apr 286 min read
1492: Edmund Flower welcomes the King back to London
Contributed and researched by Malcolm Davison. In the first of a series of over a dozen articles, and after two years research, we look...
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Aug 21, 20231 min read
1845: Schoolmaster required for the Workhouse
Brighton Gazette - Thursday 06 November 1845 CUCKFIELD UNION WANTED, A SCHOOLMASTER for the Workhouse, who must be well qualified to...
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Apr 4, 20231 min read
1862: Brantridge treat for Union House children
Brighton Gazette - Thursday 29 May 1862 CUCKFIELD. Treat to the Union House Children. A kind invitation having been given by Captain Meek...
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Mar 31, 20231 min read
1843: Clothes and books for National School Children
Brighton Gazette - Thursday 07 December 1843 CUCKFIELD. On Friday last a quantity of wearing apparel and books were given to the children...
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Mar 25, 20232 min read
1933: The Edith Payne legacy
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 03 October 1933 THE LATE MISS EDITH ANNIE PAYNE: CUCKFIELD PARTICULARS OF HER GIFT TO THE URBAN COUNCIL...
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Mar 23, 20231 min read
1929: William Herrington - a beloved Cuckfield headteacher passes on
West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 24 January 1929 DEATH OF MR. W. HERRINGTON. Older residents have learned with much regret of the death of...
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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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Sep 9, 20221 min read
1844: Merger of Grammar School with National School proposed
Brighton Gazette - Thursday 31 October 1844 CUCKFIELD. Since our respected Vicar has been among us, he has made the most strenuous...
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Aug 24, 20226 min read
1915: A lecture on War Medals to soldiers in Cuckfield preparing to go to war
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 27 April 1915 WAR MEDALS. INTERESTING LECTURE AT CUCKFIELD. The men of the Post Office Rifles who are billeted...
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