Cuckfield Connections

On Sunday week Mrs Joseph Anscombe, Bates and Thomas Norris, Jnr, were proceeding to Newick in a basket chaise, for which the horse was...

'Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by' A Smugglers' Song' by Rudyard Kiplng The words of Kipling's song above seem to have...

Sussex Advertiser - Saturday 04 February 1865 SNOWBALLING To the editor Sir, – the juvenile game of snowballing, a pastime that ought to...

Brighton Patriot - Tuesday 05 January 1836 CUCKFIELD TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRIGHTON PATRIOT SIR - on Thursday last, a distribution of beef...

This could be a headline written by a red top tabloid. But very strange things went on in Tudor times - some have been acted out in the...

Speak to any local resident of the time over the age of 60 and they will remember the crisis of the collapse and closure of the A272 road...

England suffered from a chronic shortage of small change from the mid-17th to the early 19th century. The British government failed to...

In a report in the Mid Sussex Times dated 1935, we learn that the County Council had considered a southern bypass to Cuckfield village -...

West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 29 January 1914 A FATAL JUMP. The East Sussex Coroner (Mr. G. Vere Benson) on Saturday evening inquired...

It’s not everyday you meet a locomotive passing through Cuckfield High Street, but that’s what happened in October 1978. If you saw this...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 30 April 1846 CUCKFIELD. Parish Meeting.—A vestry was held, pursuant to notice, on Thursday last, at the Ship...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 19 October 1854 LINDFIELD. THE POST OFFICE. At Editor of the Brighton Gazette. Sir, —Is there any good reason...

Brighton Gazette - Wednesday 04 May 1910 CUCKFIELD AND MOTORS. A proposal to apply a ten-mile speed limit to Cuckfield was the subject of...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 07 September 1848 On Monday, an inquest was held before Inigo Gell, Esq., Deputy-Coroner, at the Talbot Inn,...

This article appeared in Museum of Art Bulletin published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1923. It features an exhibition of the...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 02 January 1917 There is an extraordinary similarity in the records of Sussex county families to the...

Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 24 October 1874 The Secretary the Nawab of Bengal was out shooting at Cuckfield one day last...

A local navy contractor, appropriately named ‘Baker’, had his invention patented which gave a better way of kneading dough and...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 23 April 1918 Letters to the Editor UP AND DOWN THE COUNTY. [By WIDEAWAKE] I have received two letters from...

Mid Sussex Times - Wednesday 07 September 1881 CUCKFIELD PIG CENSUS. To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times. Sir, —Notwithstanding I have...