May 8, 20229 min1935: Cuckfield celebrates Royal Silver JubileeMid Sussex Times - Tuesday 07 May 1935 THE KING’S SILVER JUBILEE CUCKFIELD. Not within the memory of the oldest inhabitant has Cuckfield...
Dec 15, 20202 minCoachman: 'Get out and walk up Clayton Hill'WCA Blew in 'Brighton and its Coaches' quoted from Samuel Shergold’s ‘Recollections of Brighton in the Olden Time’ published in 1853,...
Dec 7, 20201 min1885: Balcombe villagers desperately try to grow their church spire as high as that of Cuckfield!According to the 1885 ‘Sussex Place Rhymes and Local Proverbs’, by Frederick Ernest Sawyer, there was an old Sussex proverb: The people...
Dec 3, 20203 min1845: The Cuckfield Workhouse and ChristmasWhen we think of the connotations of the word ‘workhouse’ we might recall the film Oliver and the grim prison environment and surly staff...