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Petworth Cottage Museum

Sat 14 Sep 24
Sat 14 Sep:1100 - 1630; Sun 15 Sep:1100 - 1630; Free Entry. 346 High Street, Petworth GU28 0AU 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... READ MORE>

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