Cuckfield Connections

Northern Daily Telegraph - Monday 14 March 1904 Rural ratepayers in Sussex seem to possess certain grim humour. During recent parish...

To Builders. Cuckfield Union. The Board of Guardians are desirous to receive Tenders for the immediate erection, at the Union Workhouse...

The New Poor Law of 1834 aimed to provide relief for the poorest members of society. It was introduced to reform a system that had been...

West Sussex County Times - Saturday 29 November 1879 WIFE DESERTION. -At the Cuckfield police court, on Thursday, before Captain...

Brighton Patriot - Tuesday 20 October 1835 CUCKFIELD EDUCATION AND DIET - when we deliberate about the means of introducing intellectual...

New Year's Entertainment at the Workhouse.On Monday the inmates of the Cuckfield Union Workhouse had their New Year's treat, which...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 01 January 1935 CHRISTMAS IN THE CUCKFIELD INSTITUTION. HOMELY FESTIVITIES ENJOYED BY ALL. The thoughts of...

When we think of the connotations of the word ‘workhouse’ we might recall the film Oliver and the grim prison environment and surly staff...

West Sussex County Times - Saturday 27 November 1880 CUCKFIELD. POLICE COURT.—On Monday, at the Police Court, before Admiral Pakenham and...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Friday 22 January 1892 CUCKFIELD SHOCKING DEATH. —Mr. G. E. Hillman, Coroner for East Sussex, held an...