Cuckfield Connections

Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 03 August 1907 EDUCATION IN EAST SUSSEX. COUNTY COMMITTEE MEETING AT LEWES. CUCKFIELD SCHOOL BOY...

As previously mentioned, Rosemary Powell was for many years a dedicated local historian - her legacy includes fascinating material about...

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...

Frank A Gusdorf remembers Macaulay House College I was born in 1926, and came to England as a young Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany in...

Finding true love About two years [1844] after Mr Norris had quitted the National School he became the subject of some romantic gossip....

In the year 1833 an Horticultural Society was established in Cuckfield. Mr Norris at that period had not quitted his employment at Borde...

Let us now return to the subject of our memoir. At the period to which we have arrived the School became deprived of its master, and the...

Narrow escape During the time that he worked at this vocation [agriculture at Borde Hill] he had a narrow escape from receiving physical...

This is a fascinating story which appeared in the Mid Sussex Times in 1892. Thomas Norris was the schoolmaster at Cuckfield's Old Grammar...

How about a dead posh mews cottage for £160,000? A Grade II joiners warehouse down in a very attractive no through road in the...

Air Raid Precautions Committee Mr German presided over a meeting of this Committee on November 7th. Shelters for school-children...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 10 July 1917 CUCKFIELD SCHOOL AND INDEPENDENCE DAY. The Old School at Cuckfield, in more senses than one, has...

Candid Advertising To Let. August and September, Willies, near Cuckfield, Sussex; ugly house, lovely surroundings; poorly furnished;...

To encourage patriotism among the boys, the headmaster of the Cuckfield (Sussex) National School intends to make the lads salute the...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 30 July 1846 Treat to the National School Children. — On Thursday last the Rev. T. A. Maberly, it being the...

Research published in 2014 by Matthew Adams has established that Cuckfield's free grammar school in the 1520s shared its curriculum with...

Herbert Schultz in a book exploring the teaching of handwriting identifies several schools that lead the way with this including the...

The first reading and music night for the season was held under the superintendence of the committee on Wednesday last [November 1866],...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 28 January 1919 ‘THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS’ What Does the Phrase Mean? LANTERN LECTURE AT CUCKFIELD Farmers...

Left to Right: Front Row: 1) Albert Avery 2) Reg Rapley 3) Cyril Carter 4) Bob Voller 5) Bob Knight 6) Keith Rapley 7) Jack Norris ...