1926: History-making fossil find
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 19 October 1926 CUCKFIELD , LITERARY SOCIETY. Sir Arthur Smith Woodward on The Iguanodon. A large number of...
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Cuckfield Connections
A personal journey of discovery
- Jun 30, 2022
- 3 min
1860: Palaeontological 'holy grail' ends up nearly 12,000 miles from its Cuckfield 'home'.
200 years ago Gideon Mantell made a famous discovery at the Whiteman's Green quarry where the football and rugby fields now stand. The...
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- Jun 21, 2022
- 3 min
1977: Gideon Mantell's historic find in Cuckfield II
by Sally Emerson Part II of Gideon Mantell's historic find in Cuckfield from Illustrated London News, 1 July 1977 In 1833 he [Gideon...
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- May 24, 2022
- 1 min
1972: Lifesize dinosaur replica to be built in Cuckfield ... not!
Sunday Mirror - Sunday 03 September 1972 Monster Statue A LIFESIZE replica of a 16ft.-high prehistoric lizard. the Iguanodon, is to be...
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- Aug 25, 2021
- 3 min
1830: The dinosaurs will return to Cuckfield
Martin John Spencer Rudwick is a British geologist, historian, and academic. Back in 1975 Rudgwick wrote a paper discussing the cartoons...
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- Jul 3, 2021
- 2 min
1834: The country of the Iguanodon
An engraved adaptation of John Martin's watercolour The country of the Iguanodon appears as the frontispiece to Gideon Mantell's The...
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- Jun 14, 2021
- 2 min
1977: Mantell is a major figure in the history of dinosaur discovery, but ...
Illustrated London news 1 December 1977 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Cuckfield dinosaur From Professor W.A.S. Sarjeant Dear Sir, I read with...
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- Dec 22, 2020
- 3 min
1881: Pioneering agriculture at Whiteman's Green
In 1881 an experimental farm was set up at Whiteman's Green on land lent for the purpose at Beech Farm by Major Warden Sergison...
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- Dec 9, 2020
- 5 min
1893: the cemetery refused to give up its dead
The average Briton had very little knowledge of Geology, and perhaps cares less. In his mind the subject is generally associated with...
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- Aug 7, 2018
- 5 min
Victorian Rambles: Whiteman's Green and the Iguanadon find
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 01 November 1887 SAUNTERINGS BY SAUNTERER. No. VII We have been enjoying what in Canada they term an Indian...
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- Jun 28, 2018
- 7 min
"Out of the whole world Cuckfield was the birthplace of the dinosaurs" - The Gideon Mantell Story
Illustrated London News - Friday 01 July 1977 The Cuckfield dinosaur by Sally Emerson One day in 1822 Dr Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) was...
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- Jun 4, 2018
- 2 min
Gideon Mantell's historic find in Cuckfield
One day in 1822 Dr. Gideon Mantell (3 February 1790 – 10 November 1852) was visiting a patient in Cuckfield. Mantell realised how little...
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