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- 1865: Rights and Privileges of Cuckfield people are under threat!
to wit, on the Thursday Whitsun week, and on the 16th of September, for the sale of horses, cattle, swine
- 1848 - A detailed account of 'wicked' Dame Sergison- the Cuckfield Park ghost
would have her haunting the avenue upsetting horses as they approached the house and she would be seen swinging
- 1918: Fete for wounded heroes at Victoria Park
Other attractions were a roundabout and swings. A Dutch auction was conducted by Mr. Layton and Mr.
- Haywards Heath VE Day celebrations
In the sun-lit streets, coloured riotously with the flags of the Allied Nations and red, white and blue everywhere; there was the welcome barrage of firework explosions; the streets were alive and noisy with gay, singing Every now and then rousers were let off. and the good-humoured crowd joined in the singing of popular
- 1917: Cuckfield School hoists the Stars and Stripes in recognition of America joining the War
LAYTON moved a hearty vote of thinks to Miss Berly, who lent the flag, and to the School for its singing
- 1938: Shocking traffic tragedy at Cuckfield
Witness braked hard, but the motor-cycle came across and struck the front off-side wing of the lorry.
- Cuckfield ... or should that be Cuckeffelde?
For instance : Lewys Challoner (1528) : I will that a preest doe singe for me via yeres and that he be by the yere.” and under certain given conditions “goodes and landes to be solde to find a preeste to singe
- 1856: All the fun and excitement of Cuckfield Fair recalled in Victorian verse
tie which subsists between might, main, and mane: Canaries, which, pressed, chirp, and flutter their wings Like Miss Twits, when on pressing, much fluttered, she sings; And that singular fact—that—whatever you
- 1914 Haywards Heath Man writes home about his experience of the horrors of War
The next day we started away in an ambulance wagons, and the dirty swines of Germans started shelling
- 1928: Queen Victoria's Usher buried in Cuckfield
King (London); Sydney Carroll; Mary Wing; Mr.
- 1906: Peeress writer buried in Cuckfield
At the close of the service in church the mourners and choir wended their way the graveside, singing,
- 2013: A personal account of a Cuckfield haunting
At the speed that the door opened it should by rights have swung completely on its hinges and straight











