Cuckfield Connections

Dr GB Tait asked members of Cuckfield Rural Council on Tuesday whether there were any truth in the rumour that although electricity had...

Once more our [Cuckfield] ladies have come to the front and distributed no less than 135 tons of coal amongst the poorer classes of the...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 19 October 1926 CUCKFIELD , LITERARY SOCIETY. Sir Arthur Smith Woodward on The Iguanodon. A large number of...

A Brighton Road Incident A mysterious highway outrage occurred in the early hours of this morning near Cuckfield, Sussex. The mail...

Women and politics A large and fashionable company responded to the invitation of Miss Bevan and Miss Payne to attend on Saturday a...

The other week, two traps, one travelling to, and the other from the Station, collided near Butler's Green, and a lady occupying the one...

Maisie Wright recalled in 1986: 'A few years ago, the West Sussex Record Office organised an oral history project. It concerned the...

Cuckfield is evidently feeling, more and more, the altered condition of affairs. Motorists, who are supposed to bring back prosperity to...

Oral History from Cuckfield From 'West Sussex History Journal and newsletter of the West Sussex Archives Society: September 1986 Maisie...

Sussex Advertiser - Wednesday 13 June 1866 Accident.—On Friday, as Mr. John Agate of Slaugham, his son-in-law, Mr. Watson, were driving...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 02 May 1882 On Saturday this town also shared the result of the terrific rage into which Nature was pleased to...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 17 January 1861 BOLNEY. Destruction of the Vicarage by Fire. A destructive fire broke out on Monday morning,...

We gather from a daily contemporary that the old-fashioned town of Cuokfield was taken by surprise on Saturday evening, shortly before 9...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 18 April 1882 Tricycle Accident. Leonard Gibb, a lad, met with an accident on Wednesday afternoon. It seems...

A water famine has brought about an extraordinary state of affairs in the area depending on the Cuckfield Rural District Council, Sussex....

Gossip Corner The union of May and December seems to be 'the rage' just now. At Brighton a bachelor of 87 summers has been united with a...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 28 January 1936 Chicken in Gardens. The Sanitary Inspector reported that, owing to the tenants of some of the...

Is it true that amorous couples who travel on the railway between Brighton and Haywards Heath object to the lights in Clayton Tunnel ?...

West Sussex County Times - Friday 21 August 1936 WEALDSMEN’S HANDCROSS RAMBLE Real summer weather favoured the Society of Sussex Wealdmen...

Guy Fawkes Day was not by  any means forgotten, the Cuckfield Bonfire Society carrying out a very successful demonstration. The officers...