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Cuckfield Connections
A personal journey of discovery





1938: Cuckfield Park's lime tree avenue was twice as long
Not many people know that the lime tree avenue at Cuckfield Park once extended over the Cuckfield village / Ansty road and across the...
Oct 30, 20232 min read
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1917: Did villagers read burial service backwards at midnight?
Dear Sir, I was very interested in reading your account of Mrs. Sergison. I should like to know if there is any truth in the legend that...
Oct 28, 20231 min read
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1912: The compelling Mr Crick
Willam Crick was a well known evangelist who travelled widely in Mid Sussex. Cuckfield was his home for several years, and also where he...
Oct 23, 20234 min read
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1903: Daguerrotype star performer
We regret to record the death of another old and respected townsman who studied art in its severest sense and was one of the earliest...
Oct 19, 20232 min read
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1912: Memorial drinking fountain
West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 8 August 1912 On Thursday night the Cuckfield Urban District Council agreed to accept an offer made by...
Sep 29, 20231 min read
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1919: Edith of Borde Hill marries an Olympian
Another Monday wedding is Miss Edith Stephenson. Clarke's, the fortunate man being Mr Cyril Winthrop Mackworth-Praed, a gallant Scots...
Sep 24, 20232 min read
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1822: Cobbett rides through Cuckfield
Sussex Journal: Through Croydon, Godstone, East-Grinstead, and Uckfield, to Lewes, and Brighton; Returning by Cuckfield, Worth and...
Sep 22, 20232 min read
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1935: The local builder who helped shape Cuckfield
KNIGHT After a long period of failing health the death occurred late on Sunday of Mr Stephen Knight, Brocketts Whiteman’s Green. Both his...
Sep 21, 20231 min read
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1930: Memorial for celebrated author
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 08 April 1930 Admirers of Henry Kingsley, the well known novelist, will be gratified to learn that steps are...
Sep 16, 20231 min read
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1981: Known by anybody who is anybody
With a name like Joseph Rubido, a working life which has taken in such places as poshest Cuckfield and even posher Bruton Place, W1, my...
Aug 20, 20233 min read
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1899: An advisor to Queen Victoria dies
Cuckfield ‘Universal sympathy with the bereaved family of Sir Charles Lennox Peel’ Gentlewoman , 26 August 1899 . [Died 19 August 1899]...
Aug 16, 20234 min read
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1914: Liberal MP and noted orator born at Tentercroft
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 09 June 1914 THE LATE MR. SILVESTER HORNE, MP. To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times. Dear Sir,—All the world...
Aug 1, 20232 min read
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1912: Mr Bevan's Birthday treats for Cuckfield
Brighton Gazette - Wednesday 17 July 1912 Mr. R. A. Bevan’s Birthday. Mr. R. A. Bevan, J.P., of Horsgate, Cuckfield, reached his 78th...
Jul 20, 20231 min read
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1868: Sudden death of Warden Sergison
Brighton Gazette - Thursday 28 May 1868 CUCKFIELD. Sudden Death of Warden Sergison, Esq. On Friday last, Mr Sergison, the highly...
Jul 10, 20232 min read
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1912: Thomas Bannister 'left nothing undone'
Brighton Gazette - Wednesday 03 July 1912 LATE MR. T. BANNISTER. Well-Known Mid-Sussex Auctioneer. A notable Mid-Sussex figure has been...
May 21, 20234 min read
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1903: Florence wins a bet
Mademoiselle Florence was bet $2500 she could not walk from London to Brighton in 6 days - she not only managed it but did much better...
May 20, 20233 min read
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1954: Did Dick Whittington live in Cuckfield?
The news cutting above is intriguing. We can confirm that records show that Elizabeth M Wadstein lived at Ridgecote, Copyhold Lane in...
May 18, 20231 min read
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1848: Railway porter and ex slave was 'highly respected' in Haywards Heath
Many thanks to Mike Anton for researching and providing this fascinating story about the earliest days of the Railways at Haywards...
Apr 14, 20233 min read
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1929: Eyewitness accounts of the Kingsleys in Cuckfield
STORIES OF HENRY KINGSLEY A lady, who as a child lived with her mother opposite the Kingsley’s house in Cuckfield, and her husband, Mr....
Apr 8, 20233 min read
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1957: Airey Neave at Queen's Hall
Airey Neave was an extraordinary individual but defined by his untimely at the Houses of Parliament by a bomb placed under his car. The...
Apr 7, 20232 min read
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