Cuckfield Connections

Hampshire Telegraph - Saturday 27 February 1875 CUCKFIELD. Death of an Old Roadster at Cuckfield. — Almost the last of the old race of...

This is taken from an article by Margaret Holt, taken from the Spring 1993, Bulletin of the Wealden Iron Research Group Newsletter, ...

A Cuckfield Childhood by Shirley Bond My family moved to Cuckfield in 1940 and lived in the same house in Broad Street until my parents...

In 1778 famous novelist, playright and satirist Frances (Fanny) Burney (1752-1840) stopped (most probably in the Kings Head) overnight in...

Thomas Turner (1729-93) was an important figure in the village of East Hoathly, East Sussex, nine miles north east of Lewes, where he was...

Here is a selection of memories Mrs Emily Wells born c1850, and latterly lived in Broad Street from an interview conducted by the Womens’...

Reginald Tree was the village baker from the 1940s through the 1980s. This intriguing account of his life that must have been written in...

Those who were living in the village in the 1960s to 80s will fondly remember Cuckfield’s famous resident humorist Basil Boothroyd who...

Lord Denning is described as ‘the law student’s favourite’ judge - a model of clarity. He was on the side of the ‘underdog’ and was known...

This item appeared in Mid Sussex Times on 10 June 1902, and gives an interesting snapshot of the village life in both Cuckfield and...

We learn from the Gentleman’s Magazine, dated May 1842, that Admiral Sir John Wells, GCB after 65 years in the navy died at his home,...

Timothy Burrell kept a set of account diaries which give a fascinating insight into the daily life of a wealthy land-owning Sussex squire...

Although this is not an easy read, due to its archaic eccentric wording, this chapter from one of Twynihoe William Erle’s books ‘The...

The Lady's Magazine relates in its 8 June 1804 edition a tragic story that occurred in Cuckfield to a member of the well known High...

Almost three years before the start of World War II Winston Churchill attended a funeral at the Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield on 4...

Mid Sussex Times February 5 1982 End of an era for head When a school master is invited out for a drink by ex-pupils he has caned, it...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 28 February 1939 Cobbler turns poet Charlie Newnham of Cuckfield glances back For fifty years I've served this...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 29 March 1938 UP AND DOWN THE COUNTY By ‘The Roamer’ Mr. Hubert Bates, of Cuckfield, looked me up few days ago...

WOMEN AND THE VOTE. PILGRIMAGE MARCH TO LONDON. THE JOURNEY THROUGH MID-SUSSEX Where is the man who has the power or skill To stem the...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 03 March 1891 DEATH OF THE REV. R.E. WYATT Scarcely had daybreak dawned at Haywards Heath on Friday when the...