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.
8 Open Days Reveal a Hidden High Street - 26th August 1999
Petworth's 'hidden' High Street, which is off the main routes through the town, showed what it is made of during open days on Sunday and Monday. Stalls, crafts, music, teas and open shops and gardens drew people to the street in a repeat of a popular event staged two years ago. Proceeds, which have not been finalised, will go to the trust which runs the Petworth Cottage Museum. The museum, in the High Street, reveals the life-style of a Petworth servant in the early 1900s. Ann Bradley, a trustee and one of the museum's founders,said the trust had established an endowment fund to ensure the future of the museum. Visitors to Petworth's Hidden High Street were entertained with music from young harpists of the Hindhead Music centre, one of whom is Mrs. Bradley's granddaughter. And teas were served in the courtyard garden of Catherine Walters's cottage which adjoins the museum.
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