Petworth Cottage Museum
The First Twenty Years
In 2016 we were able to stage an exhibition to celebrate twenty years of the museum. Extracted from the Petworth Society's scrapbooks of cuttings, the pictures and transcripts collected here occupied three sides of the exhibition hall. Five years on we cannot stage another physical exhibition but we can show these cuttings here. Unless otherwise stated the cuttings are all from the Midhurst & Petworth Observer. Click on the pictures to enlarge.
18 Tributes Paid to Community Stalwart 22nd December 2005
Tributes have been paid to Jacqueline Golden, a prominent member of Petworth's community, who died suddenly on Monday. She was 74. Mrs. Golden was vice president, jointly with her husband Lewis, of the Petworth Festival. She was a force in the town's Cottage Museum project, and a leading member of the team which produced the successful millennium parish map. Raymond Harris, a former chairman of Petworth Festival, said Mrs. Golden was, for many years, the organiser behind the scenes. “With her 'nuts and bolts' committee she arranged the accommodation, feeding and watering of artists and even orchestras, and every practical arrangement, leaving art to the artists,” Mr. Harris said. “She and her husband were also joint sponsors of events in every festival. The festival will always be indebted to Jacqueline for the friendliness and efficiency of everything she undertook.” Michael Follis, the festival's current director, said Mrs. Golden's death was a sad loss to all connected with the event. “There could not have been a more loyal and committed supporter. On a personal level I shall miss her kindness and friendship very much,” he added. But it is for her involvement with Petworth's Cottage Museum, which mirrors the lifestyle of a Petworth House servant in the early 20th century, that Mrs. Golden's death is most keenly felt. Peter Jerrome, chairman of the trustees, said: “It is absolutely devastating for the museum. She has been curator, administrator, secretary and stewards' organiser. It will need several people to do all that she has done. She was absolutely indefatigable. The museum has been going for ten years and we owe it to her to continue it in the way in which it has gone forward. She was a marvellous lady.” Mrs. Golden and her husband lived at Pallingham, Wisborough Green, between 1976 and 1994, when they moved to Petworth. An archivist by profession, she was latterly a volunteer at the County Record Office in Chichester. In the 1980s she was a Workers' Educational Association lecturer in local history topics. She was a founder member of the industrial museum set up in the disused chalkpit at Amberley and at one time was editor of West Sussex History, a periodical which looked at historical events in the county. Mrs. Golden is survived by her husband, two sons, two daughters and ten grandchildren. The funeral is today (Thursday) at Golders Green Crematorium, London at 4.45 p.m. Prayers will be said for her this evening at Westminster Synagogue in Knightsbridge.
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