1882: Day trip to Hastings for Cuckfield Holy Trinity Church Choir
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 25 July 1882 Through the kind hospitality of the Vicar of Cuckfield, the adult members of the choir of Holy...
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Cuckfield Connections
A personal journey of discovery
Jan 14, 20231 min read
1909: Why 'them and us' in the Churchyard?
That Mr Robert Martin, who has lived in Cuckfield since 1872, is about to remove to the North of England. That the Baptist cause in the...
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Dec 31, 20221 min read
1853: Fun on the vicar's lawn
On Thursday last the children of the National School, together with these of the Dame Schools, and the Union children, received their...
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Dec 17, 20221 min read
1873: Christmas church decorations
The interior of the church has been splendidly set off for Christmas by the hands of the ladies, who have spared no pains in perfecting...
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Dec 11, 20222 min read
1955: Journalist and Foreign Office adviser dies
Mr Wilbraham Villiers Cooper, OBE, died yesterday at his home in London at the age of 79. Born in 1876, he received his early schooling...
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Oct 31, 20221 min read
1945: Curious Cuckfield Will
Mid Sussex times Wednesday 21 March 1945 curious Sussex wills. article in the county magazine. That old wills are not the dry as dust...
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Oct 19, 20222 min read
1934: Vicar dies after motorcycling accident in Broad Street
Worthing Gazette - Wednesday 21 March 1934 Former Sompting Vicar. TRAGIC DEATH OF THE REV. A. V. HOUSMAN AFTER A MOTORCYCLING ACCIDENT....
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Oct 10, 20221 min read
1776: Church struck by lightning causes fires
A letter from Cuckfield in Suffolk [Sussex], dated August 3, says, that last Friday in the afternoon they had a violent storm of thunder...
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Sep 21, 20221 min read
1879: Workers at Holy Trinity Church badly injured in accident
Petersfield Express - Tuesday 29 April 1879 CUCKFIELD- SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE CHURCH.— On Tuesday morning an alarming occurrence took...
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Sep 17, 20223 min read
1980: Reflections on the practice of 'pew renting' at Church
Cuckfield parish magazine May 1980 THE RENTING OF PEWS by JW and MW (contributors) The practise of pew renting went on well into this...
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Aug 19, 20221 min read
1925: Organ contracted 'double pneumonia'
Cuckfield Giving his annual report on the Wesleyan Church, on Good Friday, Mr Blackburn (Steward) said they wanted a new organ. Their...
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Jul 28, 20222 min read
1610: Daring Robert's fatal fall
This is an extract of an account of a talk given to the Cuckfield Women’s Institute by Miss Marion Cooper daughter of the former vicar...
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Jul 26, 20227 min read
1971: The man behind decoy airfields
Sir Douglas Claude Strathern Evill Buried in Cuckfield churchyard is a senior officer of the RAF who had an interesting life during...
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Jul 22, 20222 min read
1945: Cuckfield sale to get Church clock ticking again
Opening a Christmas gift sale at the Queens Hall, Cuckfield last Wednesday in aid of a fund to repair the church clock, Mrs MH Eyre...
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Jul 20, 20222 min read
1732-1796: Sir William Burrell - keen local historian
An account of travels through Sussex with Sir William Burrell by Francis Grose in May 1777 Following a visit by Sussex Historic Churches...
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Jul 18, 20223 min read
2015: Expert analysis of the Church
In 1992 Cuckfield held a week of celebrations to mark the 900th anniversary of the church, one highlight being lunch in the High Street...
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Jul 16, 20221 min read
2007: Not a dry eye in the house
These two sad epitaphs in the Cuckfield churchyard are to be found in David Arscott's book 'Dead and Buried in Sussex'. It was in 1775...
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Jun 5, 20221 min read
1912: Daredevil headstand on the battlements
These few words taken from an article of a talk given by Canon Cooper in 1912 sends shivers down the spine - and no - do not endeavour to...
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May 29, 20221 min read
Humour to the last
This splendid epitaph is attributed to Cuckfield: Long was my pain, great was my grief, Surgeons I'd many, but no relief. I trust in...
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May 5, 20222 min read
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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