1923: Narrow escape for baby at Anstye Hill
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 20 November 1923 ANSTYE HILL ACCIDENT.- In our paragraph last week's issue referring to a baby's remarkable...
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Cuckfield Connections
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Mar 13, 20213 min read
1968: A photo-shoot of Cuckfield Town
Cuckfield- a town with a 13th century charter to prove it. Cuckfield (Cuca’s Feld - the latter meaning an open space rather than a...
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Mar 12, 20212 min read
1675: Impassable roads - and London 'focus of all that's bad'
In 1675 there were four roads out of London into Sussex in 1675, and they all went to places on, or near, the Sussex Coast; but going...
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Mar 11, 20213 min read
1927: Tragic unexplained suicide at Highbridge Mill
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 08 March 1927 RETIRED BUTLER’S SUICIDE AT CUCKFIELD A MILLER’S TRAGIC EARLY MORNING DISCOVERY The tragic death...
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Mar 6, 20215 min read
1963: When the Roughnecks came to Cuckfield
Oil exploration today is a contentious subject, but nearly 60 years ago it certainly wasn’t. And with Balcombe in the news again as the...
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Mar 3, 20213 min read
1865: Rights and Privileges of Cuckfield people are under threat!
Sussex Advertiser - Tuesday 19 September 1865 CUCKFIELD. Interference with the Rights and Privileges of the People. —A correspondent...
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Mar 1, 20212 min read
1935: offensive noise pollution in Cuckfield
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 26 November 1935 NOISE AT CUCKFIELD. To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times. Dear Sir, —The picturesque and...
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Feb 25, 20213 min read
1934: 'Hidden treasures' on display in Cuckfield
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 30 October 1934 LOAN EXHIBITION AT CUCKFIELD. Curios and Antiques in the Women’s Institute Room. Cuckfield...
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Feb 20, 20213 min read
1880: Claims that 'Furious driving in Broad Street caused serious accident'
West Sussex County Times - Saturday 04 December 1880 CUCKFIELD. At the Petty Sessions. on Monday, before J. M. Norman (in the chair),...
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Feb 19, 20215 min read
1703: Fake or fortune and 'our' little Cuckfield urn
What could be one of the most valuable antiquities to be found in Cuckfield was recorded in 1703. Not only is it unusual for archaeology...
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Feb 17, 20213 min read
1965: Cuckfield 'Hello' girls say 'Goodbye'
Who would have thought that Cuckfield once had it's own telephone exchange, complete with it's own set of 'Hello Girls' and a few boys of...
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Feb 14, 20215 min read
1992: Cuckfield 1092 and all that
When William the Conqueror made his pre-channel tunnel landing on the Sussex coast he wasn't coming, as many do now, on an away day...
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Feb 13, 20212 min read
Dad's Army connection with Cuckfield
Did you know one of the characters in one of Britain’s favourite TV sitcoms had a link to Cuckfield? Geoffrey Lumsden who played Captain...
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Feb 5, 20212 min read
19th century: Fine clothes given to the poor
In this article by Margaret Holt, she looks back at how the wealthy could, and sometimes almost reluctantly would, provide for the poor....
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Feb 3, 20212 min read
19th century: Pig's life and poaching
In this article by Margaret Holt, she looks back at the role of the pig and how poaching helped sustain the local community two centuries...
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Feb 1, 20212 min read
19th century: The life of a dairy maid
In this article by Margaret Holt, she looks at the life of a dairy maid two centuries ago. After a year or two in service the girl might...
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Jan 31, 20213 min read
1992: Local Historian Shirley Bond looks back on her Cuckfield childhood
A Cuckfield Childhood by Shirley Bond My family moved to Cuckfield in 1940 and lived in the same house in Broad Street until my parents...
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Jan 30, 20213 min read
19th century: Kids in charge
In this article by Margaret Holt, she looks back at how people fared in Cuckfield and the local area two centuries ago. Young children...
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Jan 26, 20213 min read
19th century: The tough farming life
In this article by Margaret Holt she looks back at how local farmers took pride in building their herds of cattle - and the extent that...
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Jan 24, 20213 min read
19th century: 1970s Cuckfield Park owner on how the poor made ends meet
Sometimes the picture we have of country life in the Victorian era is coloured by the writings of those who could only see the sunshine...
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