Cuckfield Connections

Cuckfield Fire Hydrants Local Board, 7 January 1892 Present: Mr. Best (Chairman), Mr Blaker, Mr R Caffyn, Rev. Canon Cooper, and Mr...

Sleaze, cronies and nepotism in the Parish of Cuckfield Today's political nepotism and cronyism are nothing compared with the goings on...

For the majority of children during the first few decades of the twentieth century, school was short, ending when they entered the adult...

This extract From Thomas Rowlandson’s ‘Sketches on the road’ dated 1789 featured in The Graphic in 1888 relates to the 'An Excursion to...

West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 27 December 1945 CUCKFIELD SISTERS ACCIDENTLY GASSED A verdict of "Death by misadventure" was recorded by...

Cuckfield A pleasing tree lined highway leads from Muster Green, Haywards Heath, westward to Cuckfield, whose delightfully old High...

All day on Friday, and for two or three days previously, the air had the appearance of being charged with electricity, and the...

Oh Bollards! (from Cuckfield Society Newsletter 2003) A small reminder of the iniquity of Society in years gone by has had a much needed...

Brook St (from Cuckfield Society newsletter 2003) A satellite of Cuckfield or a hamlet in its own right? Many may think of Brook Street...

A lady, during the recent boisterous gale, was walking down the principal street [of Cuckfield] with the object of attending public...

This is an extract from 'The grown-ups wouldn’t like it, adventures in several countries and many languages' by Delia Despair about...

A History of Cuckfield part 4 The Report of the Charity Commissioners of 1819-1837 shows a number of charities in Cuckfield badly...

Jack Knight was a Cuckfield man through and through. A local postman for 23 years, Jack was born in Glebe Rd in March 1922, his wife came...

Cuckfield Urban District Council. Applications are invited for the post of lamplighter Twenty Public Lamps, Wages 2s. per night....

A History of Cuckfield Part Three The diary of Edward Bates, who followed Henry Gatland as clockmaker and acted as a kind of constable,...

Re-appearance of the Aurora Borealis - It is an unusual circumstance for the aurora to appear so far south on two consecutive nights; but...

History of Cuckfield (part two) There is no evidence that Cuckfield was greatly disturbed by the Civil War although it is said that the...

The History of Cuckfield Part One (Cuckfield Society 2003) A resident of 20th century (or 21st century) Cuckfield, getting out of her/his...

Rook shooting at Cuckfield Place Cuckfield Place, the seat of Mr Sergison, of the Scots Guards, is about ten miles from Brighton. It is...

Worthing Herald - Friday 29 August 1947 HOUSING AS AN ERSTWHILE resident of Worthing, may I comment on your leading article of August 15,...