Cuckfield Connections

The Argus. 11th December 1999 Sons' perfect last act for Mrs Fox Actor Edward Fox moved a congregation of more than 200 at his mother's...

The Cuckoo Oh the cuckoo she is a merry bird she sings as she flies And she brings us good tidings and she tells us no lies And she sucks...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 21 September 1848 CUCKFIELD The Rev. H. Fearon, after many years residence at Oakenden House, having been...

I know that many local residents of Cuckfield will vividly recall Major Cyril Pike’s red sports car. For decades it was either regularly...

'Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by' A Smugglers' Song' by Rudyard Kiplng The words of Kipling's song above seem to have...

This could be a headline written by a red top tabloid. But very strange things went on in Tudor times - some have been acted out in the...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 29 March 1855 CUCKFIELD CHURCH BELLS Our change ringers rang a muffled peal, on Tuesday last, to the memory...

Lewes 8 August In the last we mentioned that the Prince of Wales did not show the least marked displeasure at the conduct of the post...

Jack Norris who is now 85 and lives in Burgess Hill has many happy memories of his time living in Cuckfield for some 20 years (until...

The energy of the Prince of Wales at the age of 23 has to be admired here. London to Brighton twice plus two social events. That was at...

When it comes to fashion, not a lot changes! The sixteenth century Cuckfield writer Andrew Boorde tells us that choosing fashionable...

My father tells me that about 50 years ago these robbers were caught and brought to justice. For a long time they had robbed and...

Nurse Stoner, writing about Cuckfield in the 1880s when this photo was taken, says that Mrs Brigden kept the shop. This is evidently the...

The Cuckfield Women’s Suffrage Society (CWSS) was co-founded by Edith Bevan and held its first meeting in the spring of 1909 at the home...

In this posting we learn of the outcome of the earlier posting of the bold proposal made by Mrs Strickland who voiced the opinions of the...

The Cuckfield Women’s Suffrage Society (CWSS) was cofounded by Edith Bevan and held its first meeting in the spring of 1909 at her...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 08 May 1900 HOME FROM THE WAR, CAPTAIN SERGISON ENTHUSIASTICALLY GREETED AT HAYWARDS HEATH AND CUCKFIELD....

Boorde and his ‘Breviary’ Andrew Boorde, sometimes written ‘Borde’ or ‘Bored’ (indeed, he used to call himself Andreas Perforatus), was...

Andrew Boorde, who was born in or about 1490 at Cuckfield in Sussex. began life as a monk and was afterwards nominated suffragan Bishop...

Two meals a day How strange it is that we can read the dietary advice from a Cuckfield man in the early C16th - and that some of what he...