1914: 'The Kindness of Cuckfield people is proverbial....' (both then and now!)
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 27 October 1914 THE CUCKFIELD HOME FOR BELGIAN REFUGEES. To the Editor of The Mid Sussex Times. Sir -I...
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Cuckfield Connections
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Mar 25, 20223 min read
1927: Why Cuckfield is a Town!
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 28 June 1927 An interesting and attractive picture of Cuckfield, dated 1790, contained in the June issue of...
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Mar 23, 20221 min read
1874: Mendicity Society to be formed in Cuckfield
Horsham, Petworth, Midhurst and Steyning Express - Tuesday 23 June 1874 CUCKFIELD MENDICITY SOCIETY MENDICITY SOCIETY, Office, 13, RED...
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Mar 17, 20228 min read
1936: Brook Street rallies round tragic family after suicide and life changing injury
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 07 July 1936 CUCKFIELD A sad story told THE CORONER AT THE INQUEST. VERDICT "SUICIDE WHILE NOT OF SOUND MIND.”...
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Mar 16, 20224 min read
1987: The Great Storm
We are in the 35th year since the Great Storm of 1987 - the worst storm in living memory. It occurred on the night of 15 to 16 October,...
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Mar 15, 20222 min read
1895: Down with the Cuckfield Town Clock!
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 16 April 1895 THE CUCKFIELD TOWN CLOCK. To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times. Dear Sir,—l notice by the...
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Mar 12, 20222 min read
2022: Florence Seal - 'Hello Girl' with Cuckfield connections... remembered by Stefan Etienne
Florence Seal – a 'Cuckfield Connection' Before March 1965, both Cuckfield and Haywards Heath were served by separate telephone...
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Mar 7, 20222 min read
1933: Hilaire Belloc's Cuckfield joke
Another charming compliment was paid to Dame Sussex at GK Chesterton's jubilee luncheon celebration in 1933, at the Old Adelphi Hotel at...
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Mar 3, 20221 min read
1868: Cutting edge frozen egg experiment
In order to stock the lakes of New Zealand, several boxes containing the ova of the ‘omble chevalier.' a species of chart, have been...
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Feb 27, 20221 min read
1911: Shocking fatality at Cuckfield
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 06 June 1911 SHOCKING FATALITY AT CUCKFIELD. MAN FALLS OFF A WAGGON AND IS RUN OVER AND KILLED A terrible...
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Feb 20, 20221 min read
1845: Rabid horse attacks boy
Last Sunday morning a labourer in the employ of Mr Hallett, a farmer at Cuckfield, took three horses from the stable, and turned them...
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Feb 18, 20221 min read
1925: Chum - the dog that can read
While dogs have a general reputation for intelligence, there are few whose education is as far advanced as Chum, a terrier owned by Mrs...
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Feb 17, 20221 min read
1881: Cyclist shaken but not stirred in Cuckfield
Mid Sussex Times - Wednesday 21 September 1881 More Haste and Less Speed. —On Wednesday afternoon a bicyclist was taking a rapid tour of...
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Feb 16, 20221 min read
c1851: Prince Albert and the parlour maid
In an earlier story we recalled how Alfred Lord Tennyson was frightened from their ‘haunted home’ at Warninglid and the house’s...
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Feb 15, 20221 min read
1877: Cuckfield Town in complete darkness
Sussex Advertiser - Saturday 14 April 1877 CUCKFIELD. The Town in Darkness. —During the past week we have been left in total darkness,...
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Feb 10, 20222 min read
1811: Shelley courts smuggler's daughter
Bertram Dobell publishes for the first time an Interesting collection of letters from Shelley to Elizabeth Hitchiner. These letters...
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Feb 6, 20222 min read
1891: Smelly bouquets and indignity suffered in Cuckfield
Complaints are loud on every hand of the unmannerly ‘crushing’ of the ladies at the Queen’s Drawing Rooms (writes the London...
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Feb 5, 20221 min read
1910: Motor car alarms horse in Cuckfield High Street
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 14 June 1910 Accident in High Street, A somewhat startling accident occurred last Tuesday afternoon in High...
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Feb 2, 20221 min read
1938: Friend of the tramps
The 'king of letter-writers' and friend of tramps. Rev. JP Bacon-Phillips, formerly rector of Crowhurst. Sussex, died at Burgess Hill...
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Jan 31, 20221 min read
1954: Boy not impressed by riches
A 12-year-old boy was not a bit interested last night when his stepfather told him that his great grandfather had left him ‘a lot’ of...
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