Cuckfield Connections

A detailed agreement was written in November 1528 to guide trustees on managing the school in future. It is held at the West Sussex...

Edmund Flower, founder of Cuckfield Grammar School, was a master tailor who will have served an apprenticeship to learn his craft. He was...

Merchant Taylors’ Livery Company and the livery companies are the source of the expression ‘being at 6’s and 7’s' . The Old School...

This article explains how tailors would learn their craft and progress through the trade and, on successful completion, become ‘freemen’....