1882: Bikes have equal rights says Cuckfield
The content and inborn hostility with which every proprietor of a pool and animal and a car regard to bicyclist will be aggravated by the...
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Cuckfield Connections
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Sep 8, 20221 min read
1845: Sergison experiments with Chinese sugar grass
The Chinese sugar grass is the name of an extraordinary plant introduced into Cuckfield with the greatest success, and promises to be a...
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Sep 6, 20222 min read
1929: How to cure a bad tempered husband
Miss Baillie Hamilton of Rusper gave a short talk on trees to the Cuckfield Women’s Institute who met in the open air in the Vicarage...
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Sep 3, 20221 min read
2022: Just for fun - final random questions on Cuckfield (4)
(answers tomorrow in Cuckfield Gossip) 1. What private Girls’ School, operating from 1867-1955, stood in the grounds nearby Warden Park...
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Aug 31, 20221 min read
1908: Keystone cops' narrow escape
A heavy gale raged over Mid-Sussex on Tuesday night, and at Slough Green, near Cuckfield a huge tree was blown down, completely blocking...
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Aug 31, 20221 min read
2022: Just for fun - yet more random questions about Cuckfield History - the answers
1. What nickname did locals give this tree (photograph c1900) and what was the superstition about it? Answer: The Doom Tree; it was said...
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Aug 30, 20221 min read
2022: Just for fun - yet more random questions about Cuckfield History (3)
Answers in tomorrow's Cuckfield Gossip 1. What nickname did locals give this tree (photograph c1900) and what was the superstition about...
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Aug 28, 20221 min read
1845: Awful sufferings of a rabid cow
ROSCOMMON & LEITRIM GAZETTE – Saturday 23 August 1845 HYDROPHOBIA* IN A COW. A short time ago one of Mr Hallett’s (of Cuckfield) horses...
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Aug 27, 20221 min read
1827: Tragic death of child playing
One day last week, as a little boy was playing by the road side, near Cuckfield, seeing a horse near, the little urchin took hold of its...
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Aug 26, 20222 min read
2022: Just for fun - some more random questions on Cuckfield History (2)
Answers tomorrow! 1.. Henry Kingsley (brother of Charles) was a popular Victorian novelist whose name was later given to the High Street...
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Aug 21, 20221 min read
1896: Crushed to death by a horse
On Thursday Mr Constable, of the firm of Messrs. Constable, the well-known carting contractors., met his death in a strange and sudden...
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Aug 20, 20222 min read
2022: Just for fun - some random questions on Cuckfield History (1)
Answers tomorrow with the article! 1. In what year did Mrs Worsley of Broxmead officially hand over the deeds for her land ‘behind the...
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Aug 18, 20225 min read
1941: Cuckfield farmer reflects on changing work practices during his 60 years of happy marriage
The Mid Sussex Times Wednesday November 12, 1941 DIAMOND WEDDING AT CUCKFIELD. FARMING RECOLLECTIONS OF MR GEORGE PICKARD. FROM HAND...
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Aug 15, 20221 min read
1916: NFU questions employing women
Cuckfield Mr JC Macfarlane, of Cuckfield, chairman of the Haywards Heath branch of the National Farmers Union, when the question of...
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Aug 14, 20223 min read
1927: Fierce debate about Cuckfield girls 'On the dole'
Mid Sussex Times July 5th 1927 Young girls on the dole. To the editor of the MID SUSSEX TIMES. Dear Sir, will you spare me a small space...
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Aug 12, 20221 min read
2001: The earliest images of Cuckfield (1) John Colley Nixon : 'Cuckfield, the King's Head Inn c1790
From SUSSEX RECORD SOCIETY DIGITAL EDITIONS 2001 volume 85 : Sussex Depicted Cuckfield owed its coaching trade to the turnpike road...
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Aug 7, 20221 min read
1896: The Blue Lady - a good old fashioned ghost
From the book Southern English Roads of 1896 we read: Cuckfield Place too has the honour of being haunted with a good old-fashioned ghost...
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Aug 5, 20221 min read
1894 Cuckfield needs cottages
To the Editor of the Mid Sussex Times Sir, Seeing in your issue of the 21st inst. that ten pairs of cottages will shortly be erected in...
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Aug 4, 20223 min read
1971: What writers said about Cuckfield (3)
Our heritage A short history of Cuckfield. In the Middle Ages Cuckfield was one of the market towns of Sussex and most of the houses and...
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Aug 3, 20222 min read
1899: Water way to go
Local Government inquiry into the application of the Cuckfield Rural District Council to borrow £15,000 for works in connection with the...
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