Sunday 20 January 2013

Petworth House closed on Monday 21st January

Due to the continuing bad weather we will be closed on Monday 21st January. If you have booked tickets to our Turner exhibition we’ll be calling you today and you will receive an automatic refund. If you would then like to reschedule please call the National Trust booking office on Tuesday. We apologise for any inconvenience.

The park however continues to be open for pedestrian access and the steep hills are perfect for sledging! Here's a few pictures taken over the weekend.

 Have fun and stay safe in the snow.


 

Friday 18 January 2013

It's snow joke - Petworth House closed this weekend

Sadly we’ve just had to make the difficult decision to close this weekend, Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th January due to the adverse weather forecast. If you have booked tickets to our Turner exhibition we’ll be calling you today and you will receive an automatic refund. If you would then like to reschedule please call the booking office after the weekend. We apologise for any inconvenience and hope you enjoy the snow.

Let us know if you make any Samuel the spaniel shaped snowdogs for your snowmen!

Wednesday 9 January 2013

A sneak peek at 2013…

Hi all, Samuel the spaniel here. I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and New Year! I was lucky enough to receive a few presents and managed to get my paws on some leftover turkey. It was a very good few days.

It’s great to be back at work and so far I’ve been doing a bit of detective work for you lovely readers by finding out what Petworth House has in store for 2013.

Everything is a bit hush, hush, but we dogs have very good hearing and I’ve managed to pick up a few clues for the year ahead…

*There’ll be lots of young ‘bunnies’ hopping around at Easter*
*Mrs Brown will be cooking up more treats in the Historic Kitchens*
*We’re opening some closed doors in the Servants’ Quarters*
*The return of my favourite event. Clue - it has lots of spaniels!*
*August will be a drama-tic month for the Pleasure Grounds*
*Note to self: in October beware of the haunted woods*

Here’s a picture from my favourite event in 2012, can you spot me?