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- 1989: Cuckfield's innovative School for the deaf
Hands shut up in the school assembly from children eager to answer questions – singing ran out from the
- 1835: Outrage over hypocrisy in Cuckfield poor house administration
Others, however, strongly opposed it, campaigning and even rioting in protest.
- 1935: Cuckfield celebrates Royal Silver Jubilee
There were also coconut shies and swings, the children being accommodated free on the latter until six Rist, E. Smith and C.
- VE Day Celebrations in Cuckfield and Brook Street
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 The proceedings ended with the singing of “Auld Lang Syne and the National Anthem. An accordion and drums were played, and community singing was entered into with great heartiness.
- 1999: 'Thoughts from France' - the Middy history of Mid Sussex - No. 34
beginning of the Somme battle last year, and will be back in the firing line before next Sunday, are singing They sing anything that comes into their heads.
- 300 years of the Leney family in Cuckfield
Who knows anything of the Cuckfield riots? Thanking you sir, for so much space.
- 1980: Ansty recollections life pre WW1
He swung round. He had one passenger with him.
- 1931: The last days of a great writer - Henry Kingsley in Cuckfield
But the supreme strings of his lyre were now broken, and he could sing no more in the rich, flowing, forty six years. (3) Yet is he at the last poignant as a murdered bird, so proud were S he gleaming wings
- 1926: Collision in London Lane caused by dangerous driving
road and struck the car which had been ahead of the witnesses all the time, with the result that both wings
- 1939: Extraordinary range of old local place name spellings
For instance: Lewis Chaloner (1528): "I will that a preest doe singe for me vii yeres and that he be xiiiili by the yere.” and under given conditions: “goodes and landes to be solde to find a preeste to singe
- 2001: A brief history of Ockenden Cottage
"timber framed houses of the Weald" it would have been a single story hall with a solar two storey wing It seems probable that the remodelling of the bakery wing with a modern shopfront to the Dutch gable
- 1845: Cricket Competition and sporting fellowship in Cuckfield
There was some good amateur singing too, and without being invidious we may mention the "White Squall











