1892: Attach your hose here
Cuckfield Fire Hydrants Local Board, 7 January 1892 Present: Mr. Best (Chairman), Mr Blaker, Mr R Caffyn, Rev. Canon Cooper, and Mr...
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Cuckfield Connections
A personal journey of discovery
Jul 29, 20223 min read
2003: A glance back at sleaze, cronyism and nepotism in Cuckfield
Sleaze, cronies and nepotism in the Parish of Cuckfield Today's political nepotism and cronyism are nothing compared with the goings on...
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Jul 27, 20222 min read
1987: Cuckfield local recalls the long walk to school during the 1920s
For the majority of children during the first few decades of the twentieth century, school was short, ending when they entered the adult...
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Jul 24, 20222 min read
1888: A trip to Brighton 233 years ago
This extract From Thomas Rowlandson’s ‘Sketches on the road’ dated 1789 featured in The Graphic in 1888 relates to the 'An Excursion to...
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Jul 23, 20222 min read
1945: Sisters accidently gassed in Broad Street
West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 27 December 1945 CUCKFIELD SISTERS ACCIDENTLY GASSED A verdict of "Death by misadventure" was recorded by...
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Jul 21, 20224 min read
1960: What writers said about Cuckfield (2) Official Guide to Cuckfield
Cuckfield A pleasing tree lined highway leads from Muster Green, Haywards Heath, westward to Cuckfield, whose delightfully old High...
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Jul 14, 20222 min read
1867: Fifty year storm closes shops
All day on Friday, and for two or three days previously, the air had the appearance of being charged with electricity, and the...
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Jul 13, 20222 min read
2003: Bollards to Cuckfield Park!
Oh Bollards! (from Cuckfield Society Newsletter 2003) A small reminder of the iniquity of Society in years gone by has had a much needed...
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Jul 12, 20221 min read
2003: Brook Street - satellite of Cuckfield or a hamlet in its own right?
Brook St (from Cuckfield Society newsletter 2003) A satellite of Cuckfield or a hamlet in its own right? Many may think of Brook Street...
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Jun 29, 20221 min read
1876: Hat, wind and the High Street
A lady, during the recent boisterous gale, was walking down the principal street [of Cuckfield] with the object of attending public...
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Jun 27, 20222 min read
Skeleton of a priest
This is an extract from 'The grown-ups wouldn’t like it, adventures in several countries and many languages' by Delia Despair about...
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Jun 26, 20225 min read
2003: Cuckfield History Part 4
A History of Cuckfield part 4 The Report of the Charity Commissioners of 1819-1837 shows a number of charities in Cuckfield badly...
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Jun 24, 20224 min read
2003: Cuckfield postman Jack Knight recalls life in town during the 1920s and 30s
Jack Knight was a Cuckfield man through and through. A local postman for 23 years, Jack was born in Glebe Rd in March 1922, his wife came...
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Jun 23, 20221 min read
1919: For a brighter future
Cuckfield Urban District Council. Applications are invited for the post of lamplighter Twenty Public Lamps, Wages 2s. per night....
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Jun 19, 20224 min read
2003: History of Cuckfield Part 3, Stagecoaches, canals, railways and riots
A History of Cuckfield Part Three The diary of Edward Bates, who followed Henry Gatland as clockmaker and acted as a kind of constable,...
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Jun 18, 20221 min read
1870: Coloured lights in the sky
Re-appearance of the Aurora Borealis - It is an unusual circumstance for the aurora to appear so far south on two consecutive nights; but...
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Jun 17, 20224 min read
2003: History of Cuckfield (part two) - Civil War, Restoration, and the threat of an Invasion
History of Cuckfield (part two) There is no evidence that Cuckfield was greatly disturbed by the Civil War although it is said that the...
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Jun 15, 20223 min read
2003: A History of Cuckfield (part one) - from the Age of the dinosaur to the reign of Elizabeth I
The History of Cuckfield Part One (Cuckfield Society 2003) A resident of 20th century (or 21st century) Cuckfield, getting out of her/his...
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Jun 14, 20221 min read
1890: Rook revenge
Rook shooting at Cuckfield Place Cuckfield Place, the seat of Mr Sergison, of the Scots Guards, is about ten miles from Brighton. It is...
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Jun 13, 20221 min read
1947: Prolific rate of house building in Cuckfield
Worthing Herald - Friday 29 August 1947 HOUSING AS AN ERSTWHILE resident of Worthing, may I comment on your leading article of August 15,...
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