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- 1575: Cuckfield Park built by a wealthy ironmaster
The house was also built in brick but when the south wing was added in Victorian times the facade of As well as the Victorian wing the house was added to in the 17th and 18th centuries, on the north and
- 1999: The Golden Age of the Silver Screen - the Middy history of Mid Sussex - No. 44
in the first “talkie” in Sussex, when what is now the Odeon in South Street, Chichester, put on The Singing
- From the Archives - Henry Kingsley and the poetry of Cuckfield Park (1931)
Walks Wood is full of song ; Spring is over all the Park, and if our ears are attuned, we can hear her singing :- In April when the birds sing out. The lark sings, as he ever sang (The birds’ own Israfel)— A chorus follows from the wood That fills the Miss Joan comes singing, shouting, most: " O Spring, dear Spring, come here . of surer tread Went bounding like the Spring, And where the scented orchids grew They both began to sing
- c1470: Apprenticeship in tailoring
Did his master, where he was apprenticed, die and young Edmund 'took her under his wing'?
- 1893: A call to act against the desecration of tombs in Cuckfield Churchyard
These gentlemen are to be seen monopolising the seats, singing the “latest,” and insulting almost all Here lies the root of all the evil, and one which for the sake of decency ought to be speedily removed
- 1900: Kids' choir sang at Crystal Palace
The singing delighted the large audience present, the applause being freely and deservedly given.
- Suspected Murder in Ashenground Wood
. * now Princess Royal Hospital East Wing
- Life in Cuckfield 1831-1833 Extracts from John Mitchell's diaries
November 1st Dreadful riots at Bristol (7) November 17th John Turner married to Miss Caffin December Some good singing. The great room was crowded almost to suffocation. Palace, to which the King and Queen returned later as part of a second procession. (7) The Bristol Riots Four rioters (of about 500-600 young men) were killed and 86 wounded, although many more are believed to have perished in the fires set by the rioters, with a total death toll put as high as 500.
- 1999: Educating body, mind and spirit- No. 29
Afternoons were devoted to art, handicrafts, singing, games, nature walks, scouting, cookery, laundry
- 1918: Two intriguing, humorous letters to the Editor of the Mid Sussex Times from Cuckfield locals
She ought to have been met with a pail of water and a bunch of stinging nettles.
- 1943: RAF men fined for infringing war regulations in Cuckfield and Haywards Heath
Wing Commander Bernard Edward Harrison RAF was fined £1 [£50] for failing to immobilise a car left unattended
- 1881: Strange circumstances of Cuckfield churchyard interment
grave on the south side of the church); the service was continued by the Canon, the choir chanting and singing










