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....
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Cuckfield Connections
A personal journey of discovery
May 25, 20231 min read
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...
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May 23, 20231 min read
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...
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May 17, 20232 min read
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,...
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May 16, 20231 min read
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...
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May 14, 20232 min read
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...
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May 12, 20231 min read
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...
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May 10, 20231 min read
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...
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May 3, 20231 min read
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...
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May 1, 20232 min read
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...
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Apr 30, 20236 min read
1861: Determined suicide at Cuckfield
Warning: Please note the newspaper article reveals some distressing details of this tragic event Brighton Herald Saturday 14 December...
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Apr 29, 20231 min read
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...
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Apr 17, 20231 min read
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...
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Apr 9, 20231 min read
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...
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Apr 6, 20231 min read
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...
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Apr 5, 20231 min read
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...
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Apr 1, 20231 min read
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...
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Mar 28, 20232 min read
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...
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Mar 22, 20231 min read
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....
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Mar 18, 20231 min read
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...
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