Petworth Cottge Museum celebrates 20 years

By The Newsroom
Published 11th Apr 2016, 11:53 BST
Updated 11th Apr 2016, 11:57 BST
Sue Povey, Caroline Stoneman and exhibition steward, Annette Swann looking at a quilt at the exhibitionSue Povey, Caroline Stoneman and exhibition steward, Annette Swann looking at a quilt at the exhibition
Sue Povey, Caroline Stoneman and exhibition steward, Annette Swann looking at a quilt at the exhibition
IT was '˜1910 Precisely' in the Leconfield Hall at Petworth on Saturday when the town celebrated the 20th anniversary of the cottage museum.

The museum which opened at 346 High Street in 1996, illustrates life in the town in 1910.

The house was restored and furnished as the home of Mary Cummings, a seamstress who worked at Petworth House and in her own sewing room at home. Although there were no direct descendants of Mary alive in the 1990s, research led to the

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