Cuckfield Connections

Inquest At the Wheatsheaf Inn yesterday (Monday) afternoon Mr G Vere Benson, Coroner for East Sussex, held an inquest on the body of John...

To Builders. Cuckfield Union. The Board of Guardians are desirous to receive Tenders for the immediate erection, at the Union Workhouse...

Even back in the C16th century, Cuckfield was prepared for a plague. The Trustees of Cuckfield Free Grammar School in 1 November 1528...

Nurse Stoner, writing about Cuckfield in the 1880s when this photo was taken, says that Mrs Brigden kept the shop. This is evidently the...

Sir Wilfrid Sheldon, formerly physician paediatrician to the Queen’s Household, head of the children's department at King's College...

For reasons not difficult to understand, doctors have never favoured payment by results, where the magnitude of their fee, if any,...

Boorde and his ‘Breviary’ Andrew Boorde, sometimes written ‘Borde’ or ‘Bored’ (indeed, he used to call himself Andreas Perforatus), was...

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...

Conrad James Farr MRCS, LRCP, FRCOG Dr C J Farr, formerly consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Cuckfield, Sussex, died suddenly...

A Serious Position Mr Edwin Steere the superintendent at the Gasworks, has for some days past been engaged with a workman in blocking up...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 18 March 1930 Something to talk about Reference was made at a Nursing Association meeting in Mid Sussex last...

Two of Captain Rock’s servants, of Warninglid were in the habit of [unclear: drinking ...?] tea. it appears finding some white powder in...

Belfast Morning News - Wednesday 19 August 1868 Witchcraft Service.—The Sussex Advertiser tells a story of pretended witchcraft, which...

How Prinny caused a stir in Cuckfield Vida Herbison and photographer Roy Vandyke visit Cuckfield - favoured for Inns by the Prince Regent...

Thomas Spry Byass (1807-90) Thomas Byass was born at Cuckfield, in Sussex, his father having been for many years an inhabitant of the...

The 1834 Poor Law Act resulted in the setting up of an enquiry into the conditions of employment of women and children in agriculture....

"The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm". Florence Nightingale in 1863 The Union Workhouse...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 17 December 1912 GRAND CHRISTMAS BAZAAR AT HAYWARDS HEATH. CONGREGATIONALISTS’ SUCCESSFUL EFFORT. We doubt if...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 24 April 1917 The army authorities on Friday sent to the Haywards Heath Cottage Hospital 27 gallant fellows...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 03 October 1882 HORRIBLE DISCOVERY IN RIVER’S WOOD ARDINGLY. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. On Sunday morning, as a man...