Cuckfield Connections

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 27 October 1914 THE CUCKFIELD HOME FOR BELGIAN REFUGEES. To the Editor of The Mid Sussex Times. Sir -I...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 28 June 1927 An interesting and attractive picture of Cuckfield, dated 1790, contained in the June issue of...

Horsham, Petworth, Midhurst and Steyning Express - Tuesday 23 June 1874 CUCKFIELD MENDICITY SOCIETY MENDICITY SOCIETY, Office, 13, RED...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 07 July 1936 CUCKFIELD A sad story told THE CORONER AT THE INQUEST. VERDICT "SUICIDE WHILE NOT OF SOUND MIND.”...

We are in the 35th year since the Great Storm of 1987 - the worst storm in living memory. It occurred on the night of 15 to 16 October,...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 16 April 1895 THE CUCKFIELD TOWN CLOCK. To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times. Dear Sir,—l notice by the...

Florence Seal – a 'Cuckfield Connection' Before March 1965, both Cuckfield and Haywards Heath were served by separate telephone...

Another charming compliment was paid to Dame Sussex at GK Chesterton's jubilee luncheon celebration in 1933, at the Old Adelphi Hotel at...

In order to stock the lakes of New Zealand, several boxes containing the ova of the ‘omble chevalier.' a species of chart, have been...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 06 June 1911 SHOCKING FATALITY AT CUCKFIELD. MAN FALLS OFF A WAGGON AND IS RUN OVER AND KILLED A terrible...

Last Sunday morning a labourer in the employ of Mr Hallett, a farmer at Cuckfield, took three horses from the stable, and turned them...

While dogs have a general reputation for intelligence, there are few whose education is as far advanced as Chum, a terrier owned by Mrs...

Mid Sussex Times - Wednesday 21 September 1881 More Haste and Less Speed. —On Wednesday afternoon a bicyclist was taking a rapid tour of...

In an earlier story we recalled how Alfred Lord Tennyson was frightened from their ‘haunted home’ at Warninglid and the house’s...

Sussex Advertiser - Saturday 14 April 1877 CUCKFIELD. The Town in Darkness. —During the past week we have been left in total darkness,...

Bertram Dobell publishes for the first time an Interesting collection of letters from Shelley to Elizabeth Hitchiner. These letters...

Complaints are loud on every hand of the unmannerly ‘crushing’ of the ladies at the Queen’s Drawing Rooms (writes the London...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 14 June 1910 Accident in High Street, A somewhat startling accident occurred last Tuesday afternoon in High...

The 'king of letter-writers' and friend of tramps. Rev. JP Bacon-Phillips, formerly rector of Crowhurst. Sussex, died at Burgess Hill...

A 12-year-old boy was not a bit interested last night when his stepfather told him that his great grandfather had left him ‘a lot’ of...