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Petworth Cottage Museum
Heritage Open Day: The museum, a.k.a. Mrs. Cummings's Cottage, is an Estate worker's house restored, furnished and equipped as if it were 1910. Mrs. Cummings was a seamstress who worked at Petworth House and at home. Nostalgic and educational. The museum first opened in 1996 and was invented by Mrs. Ann Bradley, who wanted to show a typical Leconfield Estate worker's cottage in contrast to life at Petworth House. 1910 was a time when the Estate had its most ever cottages and its most ever workers. From 1901 to 1930 the tenant was Mrs. Mary Cummings who was not a typical Estate worker. No direct descendants of Mary were alive when the museum began, but Agnes Phelan, a very close friend of Mary's granddaughters, was found and came to see the museum in 1997.
Saturday 20 September and Sunday 21 September
346 High Street, Petworth, West Sussex GU28 0AU
Sat 20 Sep:1100 - 1630; Sun 21 Sep:1100 - 1630; Free Entry.
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