1998: All time great TV ad girl attacked
Police are investigating an attack on former model Paula Hamilton. She was found injured and in a distressed state on Wednesday night in...
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Cuckfield Connections
A personal journey of discovery
Jul 9, 20232 min read
1957: Cold War spy seen over Cuckfield
When the Russian earth-circling satellite passed over Britain at about dawn today, it was on its 110th world circuit, with a total of...
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Jul 5, 20231 min read
1914: Full size 'chocolate cottage' for £90
It may interest the members of the Cuckfield Urban Council who are tackling the housing question to know that in the grounds of their...
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Jul 3, 20231 min read
1891: Scorer targeted
Accident to a marker While the monthly rifle shooting competition was in progress on Saturday on the Cuckfield range Sergeant Brookshaw...
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Jul 2, 20231 min read
1917: Where can Cuckfield children play?
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 03 July 1917 THE WEALTH IN THE CRADLE —This being National Baby Week, the Rev. S. MADDOCK preached a most...
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Jul 1, 20231 min read
1938: Ansty's altar to the Celtish god
Cuckfield is rich in legends and the tales handed down by our forbears, one of which suggests that it derived its name from cuckoo, a...
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Jun 30, 20232 min read
1858: Laine's Farm major fire destroys buildings and equipment
Brighton Gazette - Thursday 02 September 1858 CUCKFIELD. Extensive fire. —A fire broke out on Tuesday se’nnight at “Laines” Farm,...
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Jun 27, 20231 min read
1980: Autumn for an 11 year old
Autumn Morning I ran out in the morning when the air was clean and new. And all the grass was glittering and grey with Autumn dew. I ran...
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Jun 25, 20231 min read
1938: The exhausted Ansty ghost
From an article by Hubert Bates, whose family had been watchmakers in Cuckfield since 1790: Also at Anstye is a fine old period Sussex...
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Jun 24, 20234 min read
1932: Local memories at Golden Wedding
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 06 September 1932 GOLDEN WEDDING: MR AND MRS G.T. BUNTING OF CUCKFIELD. Not only in Cuckfield, but far beyond,...
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Jun 23, 20232 min read
1938: Ghostly midnight troop of riderless horses
At midnight on New Year’s Eve almost on the last stroke of the old year, Butlers Green is visited by a ghostly troop of grey riderless...
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Jun 21, 20231 min read
1891: State of our roads ... disgusted of Cuckfield
We call this an age of progression, but so far as the subject of this letter goes each a term cannot apply. Our roads used to be a...
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Jun 19, 20231 min read
1908: Traction inaction
A traction engine, belonging to the Cuckfield I Rural District Council, broke down on the high road between Cuckfield and Haywards Heath...
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Jun 17, 20231 min read
1938: Brides you must learn to cook!
They pity young husbands, and plan brides’school Cuckfield (Sussex), Wednesday. Pitying young husbands who have to go to their mothers...
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Jun 15, 20231 min read
1905: We want to look after our roads
The Cuckfield (Sussex) Rural District Council has decided to petition the Government to take over the management of the main roads or pay...
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Jun 14, 20231 min read
1836: Cuckfield's three legged hen
Brighton Gazette - Thursday 14 April 1836 CUCKFIELD The lovers of the freaks of nature may have their curiosity gratified by a visit to...
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Jun 11, 20231 min read
1911: Rusty(?) steed collapsed
Mr C Knight, of Cuckfield, had a narrow escape on Thursday while cycling down Copyhold-lane. He was going at a fairly good pace when...
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Jun 8, 20231 min read
1929: Giant Elm trees crash in Cuckfield
The Mid Sussex Times, December 10 1929 Elm trees crash at Cuckfield Two large Elm trees which had grown up side by side for many years on...
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Jun 3, 20232 min read
1904: Trees for Whiteman's Green
Cuckfield Improvement Association A meeting in connection with this Association—the objects of which are to carry out, from time to time,...
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Jun 2, 20232 min read
1913: Wasp sting likely cause of 'Heath carriage smash
Brighton Gazette - Saturday 30 August 1913 HOVE LADY'S NARROW ESCAPE Haywards Heath Carriage Smash. The sting of a wasp was the supposed...
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