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Cuckfield Connections
A personal journey of discovery
1935: Fatal fall at the Old Mill in Cuckfield
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 11 June 1935 CUCKFIELD WOMAN’S FATAL FALL. NEIGHBOUR’S DISCOVERY AT OLD MILL A woman who had lived for nearly...
Nov 13, 20202 min read
Cuckfield July 1853: one inch diameter hail stones shatter windows in freak storm
Sussex Advertiser - Tuesday 12 July 1853 CUCKFIELD. The Storm. —About half-past ten on Thursday night, we were visited by a most terrific...
Nov 10, 20202 min read
1881: How Cuckfield celebrated 'Guy Fawkes Night'
Throughout our country, Bonfire Night 2020 will be a subdued affair. Public firework celebrations have all been cancelled due to social...
Nov 5, 20204 min read
Cuckfield ghost tale for Halloween: 17th century villain recalled in verse
HALLOWEEN: “WHERE THERE IS NO IMAGINATION, THERE IS NO HORROR” – ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The following verse, published during Christmas 1916,...
Oct 29, 20204 min read
1906: 20mph or faster out of Cuckfield!
The following extract from The Brighton road speed, sport, and history on the classic highway to the south by Charles Harper was written...
Oct 25, 20203 min read
1856: All the fun and excitement of Cuckfield Fair recalled in Victorian verse
This is 1500 words of a 9000 word poem from a book called “Mrs Funnell” and concerns her visit to Cuckfield Fair. She was on a mission...
Oct 19, 20206 min read
1920s: 'Girls run Cuckfield'... notes visitor
In a delightful book called ‘The Lure of Sussex’, Thurston Hopkins records several of his walks around Sussex in the late 1920s. There is...
Oct 18, 20203 min read
1914- 1918: The Queens Hall converted into a temporary hospital
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 10 November 1914 THE QUEEN'S HALL AS A HOSPITAL. —Last week sixteen wounded Belgian soldiers were received at...
Aug 3, 20202 min read
1895-1911 Slow progress in equipping the Haywards Heath Fire Brigade during its early years
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 30 April 1895 LOCAL NOTES HAYWARDS HEATH The New Fire Station The Haywards Heath Fire Brigade have found a...
Jul 22, 20203 min read
July 22 1913: Suffragist Pilgrims march through Mid Sussex to Hyde Park
WOMEN AND THE VOTE. PILGRIMAGE MARCH TO LONDON. THE JOURNEY THROUGH MID-SUSSEX Where is the man who has the power or skill To stem the...
Jul 21, 202010 min read
1760: Ads for a person and a place in Cuckfield 260 years ago ...
Sussex Advertiser - Monday 21 January 1760 Wanted immediately, A housekeeper to a single gentleman with a small family, a plain woman...
Jul 15, 20201 min read
1929: How the Gatland Clock came to The Queens Hall ...
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 16 July 1929 THE CUCKFIELD CLOCK. We are pleased to be able to announce that the inhabitants and friends of...
Jun 29, 20203 min read
1875: A snapshot of Cuckfield longevity
Hampshire Telegraph - Saturday 01 May 1875 CUCKFIELD. Longevity at Cuckfield. —Up to the beginning of the present month there were...
Jun 22, 20201 min read
1931-A Spring Idyll: The writer poetically celebrates the beauty of the Daphne bush in Wyllies Lane
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 07 April 1931 DAPHNE: A SPRING IDYLL. Tradition says that the lane leading from the little hamlet of Ansty...
Jun 12, 20203 min read
Haywards Heath 1912 - Stirring speeches on The Women's Cause
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 26 November 1912 THE WOMEN’S CAUSE KEEPING THE FLAG FLYING AT HAYWARDS HEATH EQUAL JUSTICE FOR BOTH SEXES...
Apr 9, 20204 min read
Remembering Suffragists in Cuckfield
MID SUSSEX TIMES - 22 JULY 1913 WOMEN AND THE VOTE. PILGRIMAGE MARCH TO LONDON. THE JOURNEY THROUGH MID-SUSSEX Where is the man who has...
Jun 10, 201810 min read
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