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My brother was born here in the late 50's, and I subsequently had an appartment here when it was converted into flats!

A memory of Cuckfield by Richard Cole

The current fad for destruction of our lovely landscape and English and Welsh countryside has to stop! When I first came to Rockfield many years ago (from the Forest) it was a long way from Monmouth, now the suburbs ...Read more

A memory of Rockfield Park by Justin Grant Duff

The village club, always known in my family (the Colletts and the Cottons) as 'The Hut', was where all the young people of that time, and probably earlier, met, since that particularly was the venue for village dances. Inevitably ...Read more

A memory of Yoxford in 1920 by Peter Collett

Little did I know that when I first visited Cockfield when playing for my school football team ( Middleton in Teesdale) that one day I would make my home in this lovely village after having been all round the world in the forces, and ...Read more

A memory of Cockfield in 1949 by First Name Last Name

Hi, my name is Mel Faulkes and I'm looking for any family Robert had in Rockfield as I see he died in the old mill lodge, Rockfield, am I right in thinking this was a care home or not? The other address I had was 103 Rockfield ...Read more

A memory of Rockfield by Melanie Faulkes

I was a bus conductor on the Southdown based at the bus station in the early 1960's and later when I returned in the late 1960's I worked as a bus driver out of the station until about 1969. My wife was a nurse at Cuckfield ...Read more

A memory of Haywards Heath by James Stapleton

We stayed with them when I was aprox 11. They had a wool and baby clothes shop and I believe the name was A.W.Baldock. The shop next door was a sweet shop run by Mrs Swan, she sent me beautiful postcards when we had left ...Read more

A memory of Haywards Heath in 1961 by Jane Haydon

James Halstead Nutter was a Headmaster of Cockfield School, in the early 20thC, certainly after WW1. He was my Grandmother's cousin. I wonder if anyone alive today has any memories of him. If so, I would love to hear from ...Read more

A memory of Hamsterley in 1930 by Margaret Boyd

I did not live in Cuckfield, but in Brighton. However, I did often visit and stay with my cousin, Eric Hardacre who in those early years lived in London Lane. He introduced me to mushrooming and looking for birds nests and rabbit ...Read more

A memory of Cuckfield by John Starley

I was born and raised in Cuckfield and started attending the primary school in 1964 at the age of 5. I have 3 older brothers, Mervyn, Andrew and Paul and a younger sister, Jacqueline. We used to go the "the Rec" and ...Read more

A memory of Cuckfield in 1964 by Gabby Head