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Cuckfield Connections
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1864: Global warming?
The rains have set in at last, after the longest drought that very respectable character, the oldest inhabitant says he ever remembers....
Jun 1, 20231 min read
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1892: 'Unmanageable' horse gallops down Perrymount Road
Brighton Gazette - Thursday 04 August 1892 CARRIAGE ACCIDENT AT HAYWARD'S HEATH. On Tuesday afternoon General and Mrs Leigh Pemberton...
May 25, 20231 min read
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1906: Tarring the roads in Cuckfield
Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 23 June 1906 TARRING THE ROADS In consequence of road watering being stopped, the Urban Council...
May 23, 20231 min read
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1867: Hailstones 'as large as hazel nuts'
Sussex Advertiser - Saturday 18 May 1867 CUCKFIELD. Terrific Thunder Storm. — All day on Friday, and for two or three days previously,...
May 17, 20232 min read
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1860: All shook up
On Monday, John Erie, thatcher, while thatching a haystack at the Laines, missed hit footing through the breaking of a staff of the...
May 16, 20231 min read
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1927: They said we wouldn't believe it - but we do
Dear Sirs, Upwards of two years ago the Cuckfield Urban Council proposed a scheme for the reconstruction and widening of the main road...
May 14, 20232 min read
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1925: Volk in Cuckfield
Mid Sussex Times, 11 August 1925 We know that Volk's railway still exists - but was the Volk company related to this advetisement? Magnus...
May 12, 20231 min read
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1927: We are on patrol
Now that Summer Time has ended, will you note that the hours of duty for Automobile Association Road Patrols for day service will be from...
May 10, 20231 min read
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1945: Child abandoned on train
A boy aged about 18 months or two years, was found abandoned in a train at Lewes station on Tuesday afternoon. Attached to the child was...
May 3, 20231 min read
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1830: Cuckfield Canal discussed
The next General Assembly, or meeting of the Company or Proprietors of the River Ouse navigation, will be holden by the adjournment at...
May 1, 20232 min read
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1861: Determined suicide at Cuckfield
Warning: Please note the newspaper article reveals some distressing details of this tragic event Brighton Herald Saturday 14 December...
Apr 30, 20236 min read
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1881: Snake hunting in Myttens
On Wednesday a large snake of the pachyderbilia order was seen to dart out of the fence in front of the estate known as Myttens, in Broad...
Apr 29, 20231 min read
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1913: Overcome while testing drain
Mr Croucher, surveyor to the Cuckfield Union Council, is lying in the Haywards Heath Cottage Hospital as the result of being overcome...
Apr 17, 20231 min read
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1970: Colour for another 400,000 people
THE BBC2 service from the Heathfield transmitter will start on Saturday bringing 625-line colour to 400,000 people in East Sussex and...
Apr 9, 20231 min read
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1852: Nesting on a garden tool at Cuckfield Place
Brighton Gazette - Thursday 05 August 1852 Singular Birds' Nests. —Our attention was some time since drawn to the singular situation...
Apr 6, 20231 min read
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1955: At 107 on Housewive's Choice
Mrs Eliza Luckett (107), celebrated her birthday in good style at Cuckfield Hospital. The television camera was in the Lindfield Ward to...
Apr 5, 20231 min read
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1908: Water service problems
The water supply to the upper parts of Cuckfield for years has not been very satisfactory due to the non existence of a high level...
Apr 1, 20231 min read
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1895: Object of utility not beauty
Dear Sir, Being a reader of your paper you will give me space in your valuable column to reply to a letter which appeared in your last...
Mar 28, 20232 min read
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1941: Horse killed in race at Plumpton by car
One of the most remarkable accidents ever seen on a racecourse took place when the Cuckfield Handicap Chase was run at Plumpton, today....
Mar 22, 20231 min read
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1923: Bags I play on ... Council fight
To the Editor of The Mid Sussex Times I read with great interest the letter of 'A Native of Cuckfield' and also the reply of Mr Denman. I...
Mar 18, 20231 min read
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