Petworth Cottage Museum issues urgent call for volunteers ahead of spring reopening

The museum, which lovingly recreates a worker’s cottage as it might have been over 110 years ago, is due to reopen on April 2 but, volunteers say, they are going to need more stewards if they want things to go ahead smoothly.

"We got through the last season on about 20 or so so volunteer stewards,” Gordon Stevenson, chairman of the trustees for the museum, said. “Really we’d like to have perhaps 30 or so. That way, when someone has a holiday or some time off we’re not stretched quite so thin.”