What links 6’s and 7’s and ‘the Old School’?
Merchant Taylors’ Livery Company and the livery companies are the source of the expression ‘being at 6’s and 7’s' . The Old School...
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Cuckfield Connections
A personal journey of discovery
- Jun 12
- 3 min
c1470: Apprenticeship in tailoring
This article explains how tailors would learn their craft and progress through the trade and, on successful completion, become ‘freemen’....
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- Jun 6
- 3 min
1982: 58 years of Cuckfield memories for couple celebrating their diamond wedding
Mid Sussex Times November 26th 1982 A Romance that began below stairs King George V and Queen Mary in gilded coaches, a Russian princess,...
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- Jun 3
- 2 min
1982: Asylum history on display
Mid Sussex Times: October 8th 1982 Pot-pourri of hospital history The changes in social attitudes and medical care that transformed the...
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- May 26
- 2 min
1989: GCSE student uncovers 'Cottage glove industry' in Cuckfield
Mid Sussex Times January 27 1989 They made gloves fit for a Queen Cuckfield once had a thriving glove-making industry, and Queen Mary...
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- May 21
- 6 min
1520: Cuckfield’s early welfare support
The Fraternity of our Blessed Lady In the 15th and early 16th centuries villagers would have been grateful for the work of the Fraternity...
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- May 17
- 4 min
The Edmund Flower research project
For the past couple of weeks we have been revealing the latest research on Edmund Flower, the school founder, and we thought you might be...
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- May 14
- 6 min
1503/4: School founding date and other Tudor schools
Cuckfield Grammar School was one of many grammar schools being set up in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Some of these...
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- May 10
- 7 min
1503: Flower V City's vote to bribe the King
The Merchant Taylors’ plan to introduce a new charter* sent shockwaves through the clothing industry. Some tailors would be deprived of...
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- May 7
- 5 min
c15th: Merchant Taylors, who were (are) they?
Edmund Flower, the founder of Cuckfield Grammar School, was a member of - and for two years Master of - the Merchant Taylors' Company,...
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- May 4
- 14 min
Edmund Flower, Cuckfield school founder 2/2
Part 1 of this article is Edmund Flower, Cuckfield school founder 1/2 Researched and written by Malcolm Davison Tailors ‘merchants for...
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- May 1
- 15 min
Edmund Flower, Cuckfield school founder 1/2
Researched and written by Malcolm Davison You will find the first article at: 1492: Edmund Flower welcomes the King back to London It's...
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- Apr 28
- 6 min
1492: Edmund Flower welcomes the King back to London
Contributed and researched by Malcolm Davison. In the first of a series of over a dozen articles, and after two years research, we look...
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- Apr 24
- 1 min
Intriguing stories from Cuckfield's past
Malcolm Davison gives the background into his research on Edmund Flower, founder of Cuckfield Grammar School. A series of articles will...
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- Mar 29
- 3 min
1908: Twynihoe William Erle, Cuckfield stalwart
It is with feelings of deep regret that we have to record the death of Mr Twynihoe William Erle, who for many years lived at Mill Hall,...
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- Jan 18
- 3 min
1841: Local naval hero from Bolnore
Although we covered this story in October 2020 the following obituary has been found that appeared in national press and gives us more...
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- Dec 7, 2023
- 3 min
1896: Armour loaned by Cuckfield
The loan exhibition On Monday next the Loan Exhibition, illustrating the Age of Chivalry and the Religious and Civil Life of the Middle...
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- Dec 5, 2023
- 11 min
1914: More tales from the wise Mr Crick
The impending reirement of Mr William Crick Following our earlier posting we have unearthed another account, two years after the first,...
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- Dec 2, 2023
- 5 min
1915: An almost forgotten Cuckfield grave
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 13 April 1915 A CUCKFIELD WORTHY MONSIGNORE R. H. BENSON’S FAVOURITE NOVELIST. AN ALMOST FORGOTTEN GRAVE. By...
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- Nov 9, 2023
- 2 min
1948: Adrian Hill's Cuckfield inspiration
When I was growing up I used to enjoy the BBC children's TV programme about art presented by Adrian Hill in from 1955-1963 called...
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