Is the Rose and Crown haunted by a sailor and a lady singing? ghosts - one a sailor who frequently appears at a window and the other named Martha, a lady who enjoys singing Lynne, who hadn’t been able to sleep one night, said she heard someone singing about 5:40am. The singing again sounded very distinctly as she went down the passage to the spirit store (no pun Intended We had several ghostly encounters, but I don’t remember any singing.

headmaster of the Cuckfield (Sussex) National School intends to make the lads salute the national flag, and sing

They were small religious houses endowed with land to support a priest whose duty it was to sing masses founded by Edmund Flower and by Sir John and Thomasine Percyvale [King's School in Macclesfield] was to sing The word ‘chantry’ derives from Old French chanter and from the Latin cantare (to sing).

these old country tales and traditions (Sussex is saturated with them), the Butler’s Green ghost, the swinging

Massive griffins with spread wings perch on either side of the gates.

High up in the gable of the north wing is another stone with the date, carved in relief, of “1768" and This north wing has one of the most handsome gables and carved barge boards in the neighbourhood, and splendidly built with squared stone work to the first floor and weather fitting above, except in the north wing boiling out of the green wood in the log fire was mingled with a low crooning chant: the mother was singing In Pucksroade now the fairies sing And dance around a silver ring. Hushaby, hushaby-by.

roof, and for hours kept the fire at bay, Mr Webber being scorched and having bis hair and whiskers singed

dear sweet man, Bill, Mr [Peter] Gander, and Mr Stonner used to come to our door every Christmas and sing Our researches show that In October 1957 and 1958, the English Folk Song and Dance Society ran folk singing The outing comprising Jim Wilson from Three Bridges and George Tompsett from Cuckfield, singing for Reg Hall observed that there is also early evidence of the use of part singing in Sussex by Bill Hawkes by Mervyn Plunkett at the Rose and Crown in 1957 of Bill Hawkes and Peter Gander, both in their 80s, singing

However, this photograph of the back of the house in the 1920s shows a half brick wing projecting into This wing was also part of the Polestub farmhouse. Just beyond this wing standing free in the garden with its west wall forming a boundary to the small Both this privy and the scullery bathroom wing were demolished in 1934; The latter was already being The old bathroom and scullery wing was demolished, before it actually fell down of its own accord!

And in recognition of his work at the hospital a newly built wing was named after him.

arriving at the Church, the congregation, headed by the clergy, and the choir advanced up the aisle, singing

the dining room, the same being kept up till about three o'clock, when the company broke up with the singing