1866: Mid Sussex MP petitions Parliament
Sussex Advertiser - Saturday 12 May 1866 CUCKFIELD. Lord E. Cavendish, M.P., presented a petition to the House of Commons on Wednesday,...
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Dec 29, 20221 min read
1910: Feast or famine with 110 in the family
Buying or making Christmas presents must have been a challenge in the Feast household, as we learned when Susan Feast was buried in...
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Dec 28, 20221 min read
1906: Little London Lane made safer
Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 14 July 1906 A ROAD IMPROVEMENT FoIIowing on Mr Kleinwort's generous action in giving up a portion...
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1928: Holly case dismissed
James Bolton and William Bolton, Mitcham Road, Croydon, were summoned for doing wilful damage to. the extent of £2 to a holly tree, the...
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1931: High Street Christmas Display is best yet!
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 22 December 1931 CUCKFIELD. Christmas Times.- Our butchers have made a better display this Christmas than we...
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1928: Snowstorm - socks over shoes
Snowstorm incidents in Mid Sussex Many inconveniences and two broken legs Mid-Sussex has been an unpleasant place in which to live during...
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Dec 15, 20221 min read
1923: Not his lucky day
There is at least one Cuckfieldian who believes in the superstition that the number '13' is unlucky. Last Tuesday was the 12th of the...
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Dec 12, 20222 min read
1864: Christmas in Cuckfield
Sussex Advertiser - Saturday 02 January 1864 CUCKFIELD. Christmas at Cuckfield. A large number labouring men, working for W. W. Burrell,...
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Dec 9, 20221 min read
1905: Captions please!
'Nah mate, it's your head gasket'. Captions please! This was taken in Cuckfield Cuckfield c1905 - any ideas where this is? Photo has...
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Dec 7, 20222 min read
1000 article milestone + new About page
Instead of talking about Cuckfield news - today we have got some of our own news to announce. The site has been publishing stories since...
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Dec 4, 20221 min read
1882: The Aurora Borealis at Cuckfield
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 11 April 1882 The Aurora Borealis. — A meteorological correspondent, writing to a contemporary, says that a...
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1933: Lofty ideals preclude the poor
Letter to the Editor The problem of houses with low rents is the same in the country as in the towns. The cottages built by local...
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Nov 29, 20221 min read
1927: Regretting sad loss of Cuckfield's models
Foundation of National Naval Museum … The Royal United Service Institution, the best-known and most centrally situated museum of its...
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Nov 27, 20221 min read
1986: W.H.A.T.S.T.H.I.S.
Sir, The acronym is the darling of our age. One wonders how, compressed into their unpronounceable initials, such backward bodies as the...
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1881: Essential repairs for London Lane (Little London Road) are a great benefit to travellers
Mid Sussex Times - Wednesday 19 January 1881 Little London-road We are pleased to notice that considerable repairs have been done to this...
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1881: Runaway horse causes chaos on the High Street
Mid Sussex Times - Wednesday 12 January 1881 CUCKFIELD. Destructive Horse.—On Thursday last a horse was being put in a dogcart at the...
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1881: Fire breaks out in High Street Cottage
Mid Sussex Times - Wednesday 02 February 1881 Fire. —On Monday afternoon a fire broke out in a cottage, occupied by Mr. B. Packham,...
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1937: Preserving the South Downs
Progress in East Sussex: more than half made safe The progress of the scheme for the preservation of the South Downs was detailed in a...
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1985: vehicle navigation, untangling the towns
Even though we have sat nav these days - the dangerous, destracting street signage is far worse than it was 40 years ago. this letter to...
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1895: Atrocious weather conditions fail to dampen spirits at the Cuckfield Bonfire Carnival
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 12 November 1895 It was a thousand pities that such unpropitious weather prevailed on Tuesday evening last, a...
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