Cuckfield Connections

Those of you who can remember listening to comedy on the radio in the 1960s may have fond memories of the dulcet tones and dry wit of...

Thanks to detective work by Elizabeth Denlinger of the New York Public Library, Cuckfield Connections has learned for the first time that...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 03 July 1900 Rudyard Kipling Pays a Visit A distinguished man, in the person of the author of “The...

How Prinny caused a stir in Cuckfield Vida Herbison and photographer Roy Vandyke visit Cuckfield - favoured for Inns by the Prince Regent...

Captain John Pilfold lived in Cuckfield High Street in Marshalls from 1806 until 1813 when he moved to Lindfield. On arrival in the...

How the Canadians outfoxed the locals Canada made a massive contribution to the Allied war effort in the Second World War, which is often...

For about seven years a national naval hero, Captain John Pilfold, lived in Cuckfield High Street and regularly welcomed one of the...

We believe* that these are the recollections of Thomas Norris born 1849, son of Thomas Snr who was schoolmaster of the National School...

Here is more from Jim Twiner's account from an interview by the local WI. This further describes his years in the village during the...

Thomas Spry Byass (1807-90) Thomas Byass was born at Cuckfield, in Sussex, his father having been for many years an inhabitant of the...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 20 October 1906 CUCKFIELD. COUNTESS OF MUNSTER'S FUNERAL —Amid the peaceful surroundings of...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 25 August 1931 A VINDICATION OF HENRY KINGSLEY. HIS CAREER AND ACHIEVEMENTS DETAILED With the object of...

The 1834 Poor Law Act resulted in the setting up of an enquiry into the conditions of employment of women and children in agriculture....

Phyl Bowring recalls life in Cuckfield during World War Two We moved to Cleaver Lane, Cuckfield on December 1st 1938 with a little...

Morning Chronicle - Tuesday 19 September 1843 EXTRA ORDINARY PRO-CORN-LAW SCENE AT CUCKFIELD, [from a correspondent] It appears that a...

West Sussex County Times - Saturday 12 February 1881 ON Wednesday last week Capt. G. R. S. Bowlby, captain in the 94th Regiment, South...

Who would have thought that Cuckfield once had it's own telephone exchange, complete with it's own set of 'Hello Girls' and a few boys of...

Daughter of Thomas Butler Coddington and Almira Huxton Price. Sister of Emily Coddington (1850-1924) and Marie Frederica Coddington...

Did you know one of the characters in one of Britain’s favourite TV sitcoms had a link to Cuckfield? Geoffrey Lumsden who played Captain...

Ron Knight remembers… I can remember as a small child Saturday night being rather special. All through the summer the Cuckfield town band...