Cuckfield Connections

Edmund Flower, founder of Cuckfield Grammar School, was a master tailor who will have served an apprenticeship to learn his craft. He was...

This article explains how tailors would learn their craft and progress through the trade and, on successful completion, become ‘freemen’....

Mid Sussex Times January 27 1989 They made gloves fit for a Queen Cuckfield once had a thriving glove-making industry, and Queen Mary...

Edmund Flower, the founder of Cuckfield Grammar School, was a member of - and for two years Master of - the Merchant Taylors' Company,...

A fine of £1 and 1s. costs was inflicted on Cuckfield baker named Charles Cain, at named at the Haywards Heath Petty Sessions on Monday,...

Sir, Your correspondent 'Improvement' need not wonder much why the upper classes are so reluctant to deal with the Cuckfield...

Sussex Advertiser - Tuesday 15 August 1865 CUCKFIELD. Death of the Oldest Tradesman.—The oldest established tradesman in this place...

Cuckfield Mr JC Macfarlane, of Cuckfield, chairman of the Haywards Heath branch of the National Farmers Union, when the question of...

If you asked a local resident 'what industrial production would you associate with Cuckfield' the most likely products that would be...

The state of all the Wealden roads, until the macadamising process arrived later in the 19th century, was a constant source of adverse...

As late as the 1870's an observer reported 'roads being mended with the plough, the mire being turned up on the side to dry whilst a new...

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

Cuckfield Urban Council is in trouble with Sussex farmers because it has tarred the roads to abolish the dirt nuisance. The farmers say...

A remarkable success In water finding has just taken place at Cuckfield by Mr H Chesterman, expert water finder, engineer, and surveyor,...

The Workhouse Inmates had a fine time of it on Boxing Day, thanks to the liberality of the Guardians and friends and also to the labours...

This Timeline is the first known attempt to collate the key dates and events relating to the coaching period and development of Cuckfield...

This fascinating information was supplied by Mrs Joan A Freeman* formerly of Hove in June 1981 to Peter Holtham of the Sussex...

Mr Beeching, grocer, of the High-street, had a lady call in his shop the other morning, and she said she had an account she wanted to pay...

The Cuckoo Oh the cuckoo she is a merry bird she sings as she flies And she brings us good tidings and she tells us no lies And she sucks...

Perhaps a lesser known fact about Cuckfield is that it was one of the principal tannery centres in Sussex in the 16th and 17th centuries....