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Cuckfield Connections
A personal journey of discovery
Aug 22, 20221 min read
1893: Beggar and his wife in trouble with the law
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 10 January 1893 PETTY SESSIONS - HAYWARDS HEATH ______________ FRIDAY Before General Leigh Pemberton C.B. AN...
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Aug 21, 20221 min read
1896: Crushed to death by a horse
On Thursday Mr Constable, of the firm of Messrs. Constable, the well-known carting contractors., met his death in a strange and sudden...
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Aug 17, 20222 min read
1870: Shocking death of a harvester
A sad and fatal accident occurred on Monday evening last to a man named Hayes. from Maidstone, at Ansty, a little village situated about...
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Jul 2, 20222 min read
1866: Brighton runaway caught in Cuckfield
Sussex Advertiser - Wednesday 25 July 1866 CUCKFIELD. A Little Bit of Romance. On Friday evening, about nine o'clock, a fly arrived at...
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Apr 21, 20221 min read
Spectral figure at White Hart
The Sussex World has claimed that Cuckfield’s White Harte Inn is occasionally reported to have a ghost. So Cuckfield Connections has been...
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Mar 5, 20221 min read
c1790: How a local landlord greeted weary travellers
Many, and interesting, are the tales told of the Brighton-road, which always has been held in high favour by coachmen. In olden times,...
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Feb 24, 20223 min read
c1830: Workhouse to Warrior (1 of 3)
Old Sergeant's Memories In a quiet Sussex village a gallant old hero is spending the remainder of his days in such peace as rheumatism...
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Feb 11, 20226 min read
1893: Rose and Crown Publican in trouble
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 12 September 1893 A CUCKFIELD PUBLICAN IN TROUBLE. At the Haywards Heath Petty Sessions yesterday (Monday),...
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Jan 17, 20221 min read
1949: Bride's stockwhip frightens locals
London's Queensland Colony flocked to the Holy Trinity Church at Cuckfield, Sattex, yesterday, for the marriage of popular ‘Sandy’...
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Dec 16, 20214 min read
1877/8: Disraeli, Gladstone, Mayor Owden and the Jingo demos
Cuckfield-born Thomas Owden, in his office as Lord Mayor of London managed to bring together the country’s two leading politicians after...
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Dec 1, 202114 min read
High Street Timeline
This Timeline is the first known attempt to collate the key dates and events relating to the coaching period and development of Cuckfield...
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Nov 29, 20211 min read
1889: Wheatsheaf granted a full license
Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 05 October 1889 THE WHEATSHEAF BEERHOUSE, CUCKFIELD. Mr. Marshall Hall appeared in support of an...
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Nov 28, 20217 min read
c1800: Talbot and its sister Brighton hotel
How the Talbot suddenly took off to become a serious rival to the King's Head in Cuckfield has long been a mystery. But now some records...
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Nov 26, 20218 min read
1808: A Lord Mayor of London born in The Talbot ... 2
In this second part of the Sir Thomas Owden story we will learn about the Owden family and discover why Thomas moved to London and we...
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Nov 24, 20213 min read
1808: A Lord Mayor of London born in The Talbot ... 1
We have just discovered that Cuckfield was the birthplace of a Lord Mayor of London who became a highly influential and respected...
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Nov 22, 20214 min read
1850: Haunted brewer's home
This fascinating information was supplied by Mrs Joan A Freeman* formerly of Hove in June 1981 to Peter Holtham of the Sussex...
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Aug 11, 20215 min read
40s-60s: Jack Norris Jnr's Tale
Jack Norris who is now 85 and lives in Burgess Hill has many happy memories of his time living in Cuckfield for some 20 years (until...
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Jun 27, 20213 min read
1979: Haunted Rose & Crown
Is the Rose and Crown haunted by a sailor and a lady singing? This story lists the strange goings on there. A couple of miles down the...
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May 23, 20212 min read
1415: Was Sergison Arms a gun depot?
Sussex author Thurston Hopkins in his book 'The Lure of Sussex', makes some observations about the Sergison Arms and Muster Green which...
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May 5, 20214 min read
1871: Progress in travel: London to Brighton
In 1810 a new and more direct road [London to Brighton] was made - reducing the distance to 54 miles - via Preston, Cuckfield, Crawley,...
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