Cuckfield Connections

Mid Sussex Times: October 8th 1982 Pot-pourri of hospital history The changes in social attitudes and medical care that transformed the...

Stone pounding It has been resolved by the Guardians that samples of stone-pounders are to be obtained for inspection at the next meeting...

An alarming outbreak of fire occurred in the early hours of Monday at the Workhouse. It appears that one of the women inmates, who was...

At the Horsham Police Court on Saturday, John Grinstead, a tramp, was charged with absconding from the Workhouse on September 5th, 1807,...

West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 05 February 1914 CUCKFIELD Stone-pounding at Cuckfield Workhouse has given rise to much dismission* of...

Rural ratepayers in Sussex seem to possess a certain grim humour. During a recent parish council debate Cuckfield Workhouse was called...

Workhouse fire: fire engine in chains and frozen hose Prompt action by firemen averted what might have been a disaster at Cuckfield...

Daily News (London) - Tuesday 13 July 1880 Who is Blame ?—To the Editor the Daily News Sir, —These last few weeks, attention has been...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 24 October 1891 CUCKFIELD STRANGE DEATH OF A PAUPER. An inquest was held on Thursday at the...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 01 April 1847 CUCKFIELD The old Union House has been converted into a County Court for Sussex, for the...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 06 January 1903 HAYWARDS HEATH PETTY SESSIONS. WEDNESDAY. Before Major Maberly (in the chair) and Mr. T....

Cuckfield Workhouse We have not been so much hampered lately by travelling vagrants, as we were in the middle of the summer; this may be...

The Guardians [Cuckfield Workhouse] have decided that Mr Hall should take all the stone pounders requiring repair to his works and repair...

A wood-carving class has been started at the Workhouse, and some of the elderly inmates display great talent in connection with the work....

Cuckfield Union [Workhouse] Clerk Mr Edward WAUGH, Cuckfield ELIZA BREMEN, 44 years of age, 5 feet high, dark complexion, dark eyes,...

Sussex Advertiser - Tuesday 31 May 1864 CUCKFIELD. Alleged Suspicious Death of a Boy.— A correspondent wishes to contradict a rumour...

A report of the [Bexhill Workhouse] laundry committee was presented by Mrs Meads, who stated they visited the laundries at Uckfield,...

The inmates to the union house were regaled on Christmas Day with a plentiful dinner of roast beef and plum pudding, with porter,...

Mid Sussex Times - Wednesday 02 February 1881 VAGRANCY. To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times. Sir, I think you must possess more than...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 24 June 1847 Magistrates’ Clerk’s Office—Friday, June 18. Before J. M. Norman, Esq. Davey Coomber, inmate of...