The term Swing Riots refers to the general uprising of agricultural workers from the eastern and southern Rioters, impoverished and landless peasants, sought to put an end to the wage reductions brought by the (Thursday.) http://www.westsussex.info/captain-swing.shtml https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/ageofrevolution/riots /the-swing-riots/

Mid Sussex Times – Tuesday 18 November 1930 PEEPS INTO THE PAST The Cuckfield riot: by Hubert Bates. The history of the Cuckfield riot appears to be rather obscure, but so far as memories can be trusted Gard. for more on The Swing Riots please follow the links:- swing riots - Search (bing.com) 1830: The Swing Riots - Cuckfield teenager charged with writing threatening letters to landowners (cuckfieldconnections.org.uk ) Outbreak of Riots in Cuckfield (cuckfieldconnections.org.uk)

[This as part of the Swing Riots see notes below] Rousing him up at midnight, he was told that if he Part three will follow … Mid Sussex Times, 9 February 1892 NOTES Swing Riots The wages of servants were ladder destroyed at Borde Hill, but the landowners were scared by the letters of one who signed himself ‘Swing Read our article about th Riot of Cuckfield here: https:/www.cuckfieldconnections.org.uk/post/outbreak-of-riots-in-cuckfield www.cuckfieldconnections.org.uk/post/the-cuckfield-siege-concludes and https://www.cuckfieldconnections.org.uk/post/1830-the-swing-riots-cuckfield-teenager-found-guilty-of-writing-threatening-letters

start in Lindfield over 200 years ago and, as you will read - We read about his scary brush with the Swing Riots, his experience in horticulture and 'the pig with one ear', how he became involved in teaching Part two will follow … read about Thomas's scary encounter with the Swing Riots and how he became a schoolmaster

faith in agricultural machinery, it being a settled opinion among farmers of the old school that half-swing And to add to this scare, letters signed 'Swing' were received in mysterious ways by numberless landowners having received information from the horseman, had despatched them to keep watch and ward, that the rioters

Mid Sussex Times -  Wednesday 20 October 1943 “STINGING NETTLES – FOOD PRODUCERS” Poultry keeping talk at Cuckfield The humble and unpleasant stinging nettle is among the un-rationed foods which enable poultry gave useful hints on how to keep hen houses clean and the birds free from disease, and recommended stinging

was a young shoemaker’s apprentice name Pagden who wrote on their behalf threatening letters signed “Swing

not tell any big lies Y dursn't do that" = You should not do that Don'worry they durdledores dunno sting = Don't worry those bumble bees do not sting All things in Sussex be a she, bar they Tom Cats, and they

The sting of a wasp was the supposed cause of an accident which occurred at Haywards Heath on Thursday

After 1830/31 when the great agricultural disturbances of the ‘Swing Riots’ had subsided, village life

A Public Singing Class has lately been formed here on Hulhah’s system, under the superintendence of Mr an English composer and teacher of music, whose promotion of vocal training is associated with the singing-class This was a mid-19th century social phenomenon in the United Kingdom which sought to teach sight-singing

the customers laughing, singing choruses and responding to everything he said. The idea that we spent the winter evenings sitting around singing isn’t true. But singing was as natural to me in our house as breathing. Music lessons involved singing Cecil Sharp folk songs. Highly strung But Cyril had a troubling issue - he suffered from a form of mood disorder - swinging from