1851: Cover blown at the Sergison Arms
Mary Ann Miles was committed for trial on Friday by, Captain Preston, on a charge of stealing a handkerchief and chemise, the property of...
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Cuckfield Connections
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Mar 13, 20233 min read
1912: 'Foolish' young man's theft from the Queen's Hall
Brighton Gazette-Wednesday 20 November 1912 Young Mans foolishness Strange story of a bicycle. A strange story of the disappearance of a...
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Mar 8, 20231 min read
1942: Turn those lights out, Angela!
Angela Fox, Ockenden Cottage. Cuckfield, was fined £1 for for causing an unobscured light to show from a window of her house during the...
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Mar 4, 20232 min read
1881: Gimlets and wedges aid burglars
Sir WW Burrell’s House 'Burgled'. On Friday evening, between nine and ten o'clock, a most daring burglary was committed at Sir WW...
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Mar 3, 20233 min read
1909: Suicide through grief in Cuckfield
Sussex Agricultural Express - Friday 24 September 1909 SUICIDE THROUGH GRIEF CUCKFIELD Mr. G. Vere Benson, coroner for East Sussex, held...
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Mar 1, 20237 min read
1929: The Cuckfield Place fraud recalled
THE TRUE STORY OF A WICKED WOMAN Sussex County Magazine January 1929 The article on Cuckfield Place, which appeared in the Sussex County...
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Feb 27, 20232 min read
1913: Accolade for retiring Cuckfield PC
Mid Sussex Times- Tuesday 20 May 1913 A POLICE CONSTABLE’S 'LAST BEAT' A familiar figure of authority on the streets of Cuckfield has...
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Feb 25, 20231 min read
1903: Whiteman's Green stone throwers - 'part of a nuisance gang' in Cuckfield
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 27 October 1903 YESTERDAY (MONDAY). Before Colonel W. H. Campion, C.B. (in the chair), Major Borror,...
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Feb 19, 20231 min read
1912: Young thief to be thrashed after Shoe Club theft
West Sussex Gazette-Thursday 20 June 1912 Cuckfield In the Childrens Court at Haywards Heath Petty Sessions on Monday, Robert G. Baker,...
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Feb 18, 20231 min read
1869: Mysterious murder still unidentified
Up to yesterday (Thursday) afternoon nothing fresh had occurred to throw any light on this most mysterious affair, either in the...
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Feb 17, 20231 min read
1884: A dangerous practice on the streets of Cuckfield
West Sussex county times-Saturday 2 August 1884 A dangerous practise George Dumsday and Nathaniel Mercer, both lads, of Cuckfield, were...
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Feb 15, 20232 min read
1865: Clothes thief on the loose in Cuckfield
Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal - Tuesday 31 January 1865 Petty robberies.—A number of petty robberies have again taken place...
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Feb 11, 20232 min read
1889: Abusing Mr Burrell ...
Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 28 September 1889 CUCKFIELD ABUSING MR KM BURRELL. At the Marlborough-street Police-court, Monday...
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Feb 10, 20231 min read
1886: Removing the removers
Henry Neale v. Cuddington. In this case plaintiff, who is a wheelwright, residing at Cuckfield, sued the defendant, a furniture remover,...
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Feb 6, 20231 min read
1805: A domestic murders her baby
The following shocking occurrence, we hear, took place between Brighton and Cuckfield, on Tuesday se’nnight A Nobleman's carriage,...
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Feb 3, 20239 min read
1869: Graphic witness detail at Cuckfield murder inquest ...
Chichester Express and West Sussex journal- Tuesday 7 December 1869 The mysterious death of a stranger at Cuckfield The greatest...
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Jan 27, 20231 min read
1929: Lazy guard dogs
While thieves at a Cuckfield (Sussex) house stole silver worth £60, smoked cigars, and drank lemonade, two Pekinese dogs slept...
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Jan 24, 20231 min read
1872: Remanded for suspicious behaviour!
Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal - Tuesday 30 January 1872 January 30, 1872 CUCKFIELD, SUSPICIOUS. — Mary Lewis, middle-aged...
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1884: Umbrella thief's reign at an end?
Charles Parramor, a young thief, describing himself as an engine driver, of Croydon, was charged with stealing two umbrellas on the 11th...
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Jan 10, 20233 min read
1867: Using a child as a decoy
On Wednesday a man passing by the name of John Mitchell, and who pretended to come from Leeds, Yorkshire, was brought before Warden G...
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