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Cuckfield Connections
A personal journey of discovery




1887: Why 'deafening cheers' greeted Thomas Sergison - 1747 General Election
Mid Sussex times- Tuesday 21 June 1887 Interesting memoirs. Number 1. The General Election of 1747 resulted in the return of two...
Mar 17, 20235 min read
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1881: Unusual visitation at Whiteman's Green
Mid Sussex Times - Wednesday 25 May 1881 CUCKFIELD. Unusual Visitation The neighbourhood of Whiteman’s Green was considerably alarmed...
Mar 11, 20231 min read
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1873: Unfortunate baby names
ITEM WARNING: This item will not be suitable for prudish readers! Those who would like an amusing read in the modestly priced book...
Mar 10, 20231 min read
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1882: Narrow escape for child in Brewery Lane blaze
West Sussex County Times - Saturday 14 October 1882 CUCKFIELD. NARROW ESCAPE FROM FIRE— On Saturday evening, a cottager’s wife named...
Mar 9, 20231 min read
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1916: Bus driver - tested for what?
A motor omnibus driver in the public service renewed his application. His financial obligations, he said, remained as before. He was...
Mar 6, 20231 min read
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1903: 120 make whistle stop tour
Sussex Archaeologists Summer Meeting, Saturday 12 June It is about fifteen years since the Sussex Archaeologists as a body visited...
Mar 2, 20237 min read
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1945: Light after the War
At a meeting of the Cuckfield Rural Parish Council in the Queen’a Hall on August 28 it was derided to ask for a precept of £100 on the...
Feb 28, 20232 min read
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1908: Pole fault
The Postmaster-General has been refused permission to erect telegraph poles along the High-street, from the Post Office to the Rose and...
Feb 26, 20231 min read
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1842: Finding employment for Cuckfield poor
Sussex Advertiser - Tuesday 27 December 1842 CUCKFIELD. A meeting which was convened by the Rev. Mr. Maberly, vicar of this place, was...
Feb 21, 20232 min read
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2007: Peking to Paris in an Austin Seven
Back in the 1970s Kip and Carmen Waistell lived opposite The Talbot Inn in Cuckfield. Kip was active in the Sealed Knot historical battle...
Feb 16, 20232 min read
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1879: Diseased horse - a case of glanders
West Sussex County Times - Saturday 21 June 1879 CUCKFIELD. HORSE Disease. The glanders has again made its unwelcome appearance here, the...
Feb 13, 20231 min read
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1879: Gas Works Superintendent rendered unconscious
West Sussex County Times - Saturday 18 January 1879 CUCKFIELD. ALARMING OCCURENCE. —Mr Edwin Steere, the superintendent. of the Gas...
Feb 7, 20231 min read
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1911: Serenity in the countryside
What Folks are saying That motor horns and the noise of traction engines are not nice accompaniments to songs. Mid Sussex Times, 10...
Feb 4, 20231 min read
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1838: Soil kills primroses claim villagers
In Cuckfield, Suffolk [!], there is not a single wild primrose to be found; while the hedgerows in the extreme boundaries of the...
Jan 29, 20231 min read
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1911: For tramps and lovers
That lovers - tramps - fond of resting by the wayside will be glad to know that the Cuckfield Urban Council has decided that a rustic...
Jan 21, 20231 min read
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1896: Getting up-to-date in the nineteenth century
Circumstances are not wanting to shew that the Cuckfield Rural District Council are, however, in some respects, moving with the times....
Jan 19, 20231 min read
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1953: Cuckfield celebrates Queen's Coronation with an Arts and Crafts Exhibition
Sussex Daily News - Thursday 30 July 1953 Top Prize Goes to the Butcher FROM butcher to vicar, the people of Cuckfield submitted the...
Jan 13, 20231 min read
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1899: Fire Scare at Cuckfield Park
Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 04 March 1899 CUCKFIELD. ALARM OF FIRE AT CUCKFIELD PARK.— The mansion at Cuckfield Park, the...
Jan 9, 20231 min read
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1906: Dust nuisance in South Street
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 11 September 1906 THE DUST NUISANCE. The Surveyor reported that, as instructed, he had obtained and applied...
Jan 7, 20231 min read
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1866: Cuckfield Dog owners pursued for tax
Sussex Advertiser - Tuesday 05 June 1866 CUCKFIELD. A Plague Among the Dogs.— The owners of canines, useful or useless, as the case may...
Jan 5, 20231 min read
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