Cuckfield Connections

1836: Railway line through Cuckfield 'superior' to any other option.

1874: Encounter in a railway carriage

1929: Tragic suicide as colonel was 'distressed with the idea of becoming an invalid'

1909: Granny prefers smoking a pipe to tea

1908: Celebrated Cuckfield Cricketer commemorated

1907: Eyeing up the girls coming out of church a nuisance

1915: A few lines from the front

1949: Bride's stockwhip frightens locals

1893: Cuckfield party enjoys the delights of historic Slaugham

1945: Cuckfield Urban Bombing but no fatalities

1840: Whiteman's Green - fatal fall caused by raised path and darkness

1907: Fifty years in the choir.

1882: Skating enthusiasts are victims of changeable weather

1914: A bullock in the office

1897: Historic find dug up in Balcombe- a medieval hoard!

1954: They all fall down

1932: ...so how should we deal with litter in Cuckfield?

1907: Significant blow for the handkerchief industry

1932: '......an infinitesimal heap of papers at the corner of Hatchgate Lane'

1930: Comedy of the Wedding Ring

1847: Pickpockets at work while locals enjoy circus entertainment

Where was the Court of Buttinghill, and what was it?

1904: A glance back at the writings of sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century Cuckfieldians

1892: Cuckfield a 'quiet backwater in a sordid and grasping age'

1837: Base Ingratitude as employee caught in a 'very questionable' situation with employer's wife...

1864: Smallpox death - workhouse accused

1911: No fly zone above Cuckfield Golf Club

1789: A Trip to Brighton

1932: Alleged theft of Vicar's motor car

1905: Christmas party for the Workhouse Inmates

1944: Queen's Hall Festive fun and games for the troops

1877: Christmas treat for the schoolchildren

1915: Christmas Eve in the trenches

1599: John Porter MP, JP

1867: Heartless

1878: Carriage accident - horse careered two miles

1864: Soldier in a fix after a 'lost' evening

?-1606: Henry Bowyer MP JP, builder of Cuckfield Place

1975: Scent of Battle looms over a rubbish tip

1877/8: Disraeli, Gladstone, Mayor Owden and the Jingo demos

1886: Serial swindler taken to court by Talbot Landlord

1909: Distinquished Cuckfield historian and vicar dies

1911: Club with deadly mission celebrates success at The Kings Head

2014: Brook Street 'secret societies'

1936: What are Town Planners contemplating for our beautiful town?

1954: The V1 in hindsight

1907: 83 weds 32 - Pastor and Nurse

1938: Air Raid Precautions

1877: Local man narrowly escapes 'a watery death'

1944: Word War ll the final tally