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- 1807: Sergison fails to become MP in corrupt election
reminiscence concerning this remarkable squire deals with the occasion when, being dissatisfied with the singing
- Haywards Heath Girl Killed by a Tank: Distressing fatality near Cuckfield Park
The tank swung out to pass three Army lorries which were stationary on the camp side of the road and It slowed down before swinging out. He took it up and down the road, and swung it about to test the braking.
- 1851: Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson and his wife flee from 'haunted home' near Cuckfield
On their first morning at Warninglid, Tennyson (according to his wife's journal) ‘heard the birds sing as he had never heard them sing since he left Somersby, and he ate a good breakfast’, but as it turned
- 1977: Cuckfield between the Wars recalled - people, pets, events and wild plants....
especially going by wagon (later Mr Markwick's lorry) to the Hassocks Pleasure Gardens stopping en route to sing
- Four more facts you may not know about Cuckfield
(a) "Pease Pease Hot" or "Pease Pudding Hot" (also known as "Peas Porridge Hot")is a children's singing
- 1957: Partially Blind competitor competes in Easter Walking Race
Wing commander Taylor acted as host to the judges who received bouquets from Miss Hall.
- 1885: Valuable carrier pigeons attacked by a dog at Whiteman's Green
police officer he went to the kennel where they were kept and found there a quantity of feathers and wings
- 1999: 'Letters from the killing fields of Europe' - the Middy history of Mid Sussex - No. 31
pages of the Brighton Herald and the mid Sussex Times: "On Christmas Eve we could hear the Germans singing
- 1858: Introducing the Haywards Heath Lunatic Asylum ... (later called St Francis Hospital)
last, and in the course of last year the whole of the centre building, or officers’ quarters, and one wing be appropriated to officers’ quarters, the Governor, of course, having the lion’s share, and the two wings
- 1989: Remembering the glory days of Cuckfield Part 2
A beacon in fact was lit one night, (accidentally as it turned out), and Cuckfield swung into action.
- 1971: The man behind decoy airfields
Evill then applied to join the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps but was not accepted and he spent Instructor With promotion to wing commander and following his return to Great Britain in early 1925,
- 1912 and 1914: The story of the Congregational Church in South Road
The accommodation of the Hall was severely taxed, and when selling was in full swing it was inconveniently GEORGE NORTON presided, and after the singing of “O Lord of Heaven and earth and sea” Psalm Ixvii. was











