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    Chapel completed and with 'Cuckfield' stone
    • May 5
    • 2 min

    Chapel completed and with 'Cuckfield' stone

    You may have heard that recently the Lancing College Chapel has finally been completed, 154 years after the foundation stone for this...
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    1724: Extract from 'Accounts of Livings' within the parish of Cuckfield
    • May 2
    • 2 min

    1724: Extract from 'Accounts of Livings' within the parish of Cuckfield

    Extracted from the Registry of the Archdeaconry of Lewes in the Diocese of Chichester. Copy from a Book of an Account of Livings within...
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    1881: Brighton choristers' memorable visit to Cuckfield.
    • Apr 18
    • 2 min

    1881: Brighton choristers' memorable visit to Cuckfield.

    Mid Sussex Times - Wednesday 21 September 1881 Outing of Brighton Choristers. Lovely weather attended the visit on Thursday of about 40...
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    1934: Let there be electric light
    • Apr 7
    • 2 min

    1934: Let there be electric light

    Cuckfield Easter Vestry The Electric Light Appeal over £100 still Required Statements regarding the response to the appeal for funds to...
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    1933: Cuckfield's tribute to one 'who occupied a great place in the neighbourhood' -Miss Edith Payne
    • Mar 29
    • 9 min

    1933: Cuckfield's tribute to one 'who occupied a great place in the neighbourhood' -Miss Edith Payne

    Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 15 August 1933 CUCKFIELD MOURNS A GREAT LOSS. Striking Tributes at the Funeral of Miss E. A. Payne The funeral...
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    1907: Eyeing up the girls coming out of church a nuisance
    • Jan 19
    • 1 min

    1907: Eyeing up the girls coming out of church a nuisance

    The use of the church door as a lovers’ meeting-place, common in most small towns, has become so marked at Cuckfield (England) parish...
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    1949: Bride's stockwhip frightens locals
    • Jan 17
    • 1 min

    1949: Bride's stockwhip frightens locals

    London's Queensland Colony flocked to the Holy Trinity Church at Cuckfield, Sattex, yesterday, for the marriage of popular ‘Sandy’...
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    1907: Fifty years in the choir.
    • Jan 13
    • 1 min

    1907: Fifty years in the choir.

    Mr Reuben Anscombe, a Bisley prizewinner, of Cuckfield, Sussex (England), has just completed 50 years’ continuous service as a choirman...
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    1930: Comedy of the Wedding Ring
    • Jan 5
    • 1 min

    1930: Comedy of the Wedding Ring

    Before the altar in a Cuckfield (Sussex) church, stood the happy couple - the groom - a policeman, tall and handsome; the bride, petite...
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    1932: Alleged theft of Vicar's motor car
    • Dec 27, 2021
    • 1 min

    1932: Alleged theft of Vicar's motor car

    Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 06 December 1932 ALLEGED THEFT OF A VICAR’S MOTOR-CAR. LONDON MAN REMANDED AT HAYWARDS HEATH. The theft of the...
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    1909: Distinquished Cuckfield historian and vicar dies
    • Dec 14, 2021
    • 3 min

    1909: Distinquished Cuckfield historian and vicar dies

    Cuckfield vicar Canon Cooper was a highly respected local historian and both an active member and knowledgable Chairman of the Sussex...
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    1882: Midnight Cuckfield funeral for infected deceased
    • Nov 27, 2021
    • 1 min

    1882: Midnight Cuckfield funeral for infected deceased

    Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 21 March 1882 Midnight Funeral. —Poor little Clara Ede having succumbed to an infectious disease, was, in...
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    1855: Church alterations critically assessed
    • Nov 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    1855: Church alterations critically assessed

    Brighton Gazette - Thursday 30 August 1855 CUCKFIELD. The Church. —The alterations in the church are proceeding, under the...
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    1945: Locals generate funds to restart Cuckfield Church clock
    • Oct 6, 2021
    • 1 min

    1945: Locals generate funds to restart Cuckfield Church clock

    Mid Sussex Times - Wednesday 12 December 1945 CUCKFIELD SALE FOR CHURCH CLOCK. TO START IT TICKING AGAIN, Opening a Christmas gift sale...
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    1984: Maisy Wright recalls the Broad Street Congregational Chapel
    • Aug 28, 2021
    • 1 min

    1984: Maisy Wright recalls the Broad Street Congregational Chapel

    The Congregational chapel. In 1821 a small group of Cuckfield residents opened a small chapel in Broad Street on land given by Stephen...
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    1569: Woman gives birth to cat and 'two wives apiece' in Cuckfield
    • Aug 17, 2021
    • 4 min

    1569: Woman gives birth to cat and 'two wives apiece' in Cuckfield

    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...
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    1855: Muffled peal of respect for leading change ringer at Cuckfield
    • Aug 16, 2021
    • 2 min

    1855: Muffled peal of respect for leading change ringer at Cuckfield

    Brighton Gazette - Thursday 29 March 1855 CUCKFIELD CHURCH BELLS Our change ringers rang a muffled peal, on Tuesday last, to the memory...
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    1903: An interesting insight into the history and beauty of our 'Church of the Holy Trinity'
    • Jul 31, 2021
    • 5 min

    1903: An interesting insight into the history and beauty of our 'Church of the Holy Trinity'

    Brighton Gazette - Thursday 31 December 1903 CUCKFIELD CHURCH. ‘Cuckfield Church is especially interesting, as being in all probability a...
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    1881: Don't appreciate our singing? Well, we're the best in Cuckfield!
    • Jul 14, 2021
    • 1 min

    1881: Don't appreciate our singing? Well, we're the best in Cuckfield!

    Mid Sussex Times - Wednesday 02 February 1881 CUCKFIELD PARISH CHURCH. To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times. Sir, —I am not surprised at...
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    1855: Noble peer's funeral in Cuckfield
    • Jun 28, 2021
    • 4 min

    1855: Noble peer's funeral in Cuckfield

    Brighton Gazette - Thursday 29 March 1855 FUNERAL OF THE RIGHT HON. LORD ERSKINE The remains of David Montagu, Baron Erskine in the...
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