Cuckfield Connections

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

Sam Willetts, was known as the 'singing baker' and lived on Cuckfield hill. He spent his life living with the challenges of dwarfism but...

No really, this is for real! It wasn't April the 1st! Please take careful not of this before you next throw your wellingtons - get into...

Cyril Phillips was a man with a moderately good singing voice, amazing memory and a gift to entertain. For a time, we don't know how long...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Friday 09 August 1957 Glamour came to Cuckfield Donkey Derby Races on Monday, in the form of lovelies from...

Bill Hawkes was the father of 'our oldest paper boy' Charlie Hawkes and was a talented musician performing into his 80s. His recorded...

The Pleasure Fair on Tuesday was but the ghost of former days, the visitors and amusements being equally scanty. Cheap Jack, with his...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 26 February 1863 CUCKFIELD. RECEPTION OF WALTER BURRELL, ESQ., AND FAMILY. The arrival of W. W. Burrell,...

A harvest festival of a new character was celebrated for the first time at Cuckfield, on Tuesday, the 30th ult. Holy Communion was...

Since 9 o'clock on Saturday night rapid changes in the weather, together with a variation in the wind, has been apparent in this...

Captain and Mrs Sergison of Cuckfield Park have not suffered the first Christmas after their return from India to pass by without a...

Last year I contacted Screen Archive South East to enquire about a film in their catalogue entitled 'Cuckfield Fire Brigade' . The email...

This is a jig called ‘Cuckfield Place’ from 'The Compleat Country Dancing-Master' printed by John Walsh, London c1740 . There is no...

50 year anniversary of Cuckfield Sealed Knot and Battle of Cuckfield It’s 50 years since the Battle of Cuckfield and the formation of the...

Skaters have had a grand time of it this year, and Brightonians, as may be supposed, have not been behindhand in availing themselves of...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Friday 12 January 1945 Many interesting historic facts and anecdotes were mentioned by Mrs MA Clowes, of...

Those of you who can remember listening to comedy on the radio in the 1960s may have fond memories of the dulcet tones and dry wit of...

Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Thursday 20 September 1928 MANOEUVRES PROGRESS. Great Attraction for the Holiday-makers. CUCKFIELD, Wednesday...

WE DID IT OUR WAY Cuckfield has always been a fiercely self determining community. To those who live here, Cuckfield is not a suburb of...

Ron Knight remembers… I can remember as a small child Saturday night being rather special. All through the summer the Cuckfield town band...