May 52 minChapel completed and with 'Cuckfield' stoneYou may have heard that recently the Lancing College Chapel has finally been completed, 154 years after the foundation stone for this...
May 22 min1724: 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...
Apr 182 min1881: 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...
Apr 72 min1934: Let there be electric lightCuckfield Easter Vestry The Electric Light Appeal over £100 still Required Statements regarding the response to the appeal for funds to...
Mar 299 min1933: Cuckfield's tribute to one 'who occupied a great place in the neighbourhood' -Miss Edith PayneMid Sussex Times - Tuesday 15 August 1933 CUCKFIELD MOURNS A GREAT LOSS. Striking Tributes at the Funeral of Miss E. A. Payne The funeral...
Jan 191 min1907: Eyeing up the girls coming out of church a nuisanceThe use of the church door as a lovers’ meeting-place, common in most small towns, has become so marked at Cuckfield (England) parish...
Jan 171 min1949: Bride's stockwhip frightens localsLondon's Queensland Colony flocked to the Holy Trinity Church at Cuckfield, Sattex, yesterday, for the marriage of popular ‘Sandy’...
Jan 131 min1907: 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...
Jan 51 min1930: 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...
Dec 27, 20211 min1932: Alleged theft of Vicar's motor carMid Sussex Times - Tuesday 06 December 1932 ALLEGED THEFT OF A VICAR’S MOTOR-CAR. LONDON MAN REMANDED AT HAYWARDS HEATH. The theft of the...
Dec 14, 20213 min1909: Distinquished Cuckfield historian and vicar diesCuckfield vicar Canon Cooper was a highly respected local historian and both an active member and knowledgable Chairman of the Sussex...
Nov 27, 20211 min1882: Midnight Cuckfield funeral for infected deceasedMid Sussex Times - Tuesday 21 March 1882 Midnight Funeral. —Poor little Clara Ede having succumbed to an infectious disease, was, in...
Nov 15, 20212 min1855: Church alterations critically assessedBrighton Gazette - Thursday 30 August 1855 CUCKFIELD. The Church. —The alterations in the church are proceeding, under the...
Oct 6, 20211 min1945: Locals generate funds to restart Cuckfield Church clockMid Sussex Times - Wednesday 12 December 1945 CUCKFIELD SALE FOR CHURCH CLOCK. TO START IT TICKING AGAIN, Opening a Christmas gift sale...
Aug 28, 20211 min1984: Maisy Wright recalls the Broad Street Congregational ChapelThe Congregational chapel. In 1821 a small group of Cuckfield residents opened a small chapel in Broad Street on land given by Stephen...
Aug 17, 20214 min1569: Woman gives birth to cat and 'two wives apiece' in CuckfieldThis 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...
Aug 16, 20212 min1855: Muffled peal of respect for leading change ringer at CuckfieldBrighton Gazette - Thursday 29 March 1855 CUCKFIELD CHURCH BELLS Our change ringers rang a muffled peal, on Tuesday last, to the memory...
Jul 31, 20215 min1903: 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...
Jul 14, 20211 min1881: 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...
Jun 28, 20214 min1855: Noble peer's funeral in CuckfieldBrighton Gazette - Thursday 29 March 1855 FUNERAL OF THE RIGHT HON. LORD ERSKINE The remains of David Montagu, Baron Erskine in the...