Bring a bag: locals and visitors together…
.
. “a Handbag ?”
HANDBAGS
An
impromptu exhibition for Penicuik Community Development Trust
in the Cowan Institute,
BILUM:NEW
Useful for
carrying the baby, firewood or food from the garden, or sometimes all three !
. “a Handbag ?”
HANDBAGS
An
impromptu exhibition for Penicuik Community Development Trust
in the Cowan Institute,
OTHER SATURDAY
DISPLAYS IN THE COWAN INSTITUTE
Penicuik’s virtual Museum in the Town Hall
A few of the 100 or so Penicuik
Open House weekly displays
THE
COWAN PAPER ADVERTISEMENTS OF 1944
DAME
MURIEL SPARK: Scottish by formation
childrens book illustration of GERMANO OVANI
Galashiels
Co-operators & the ideas
of William King
IMAGES
OF ESKBRIDGE from Jim Neil’s collection
CORNBANK: Penicuik’s Radburn
estate from the 1960s
PENICUIK
RAILWAY
and its designer THOMAS
BOUCH
Penicuik’s Concorde Designer JAMES
ARNOT HAMILTON
Penicuik’s
International Photographer ALBERT WATSON
Carlops’
International City Planner THOMAS ADAMS
General
MACZEK & the GREAT POLISH MAP of SCOTLAND
ALEXANDER COWAN’S INSTITUTE
illustrated by his great-great-great grandson Robin Macfarlan
The Cowan Institute -with library,
halls and recreation rooms- was given to the people of Penicuik by the will of Alexander Cowan, papermaker.
Operated for most of its life by the Cowan Trust, it was passed in 1960 to
local management under the care of the Burgh of Penicuik.
On local government
reorganisation in the mid 1970s the Burgh’s assets became vested in Midlothian
Council, including the Cowan Institute and the endowments for social facilities
the earlier Trust had provided. Penicuik
Community Development Trust was formed by public concern for the fate of the
building after reports of its possible sale in 2005.
The Trust is a registered
charity (SC037990) run and entirely supported by the efforts of
Penicuik people, and hires space in the Institute to operate an Open House with
displays every Saturday throughout the year, and a fortnightly Cinema on Sunday
evenings. It also works with the
locally-run charitable bodies operating Penicuik’s Leisure Centre at Ladywood
and the Penicuik Community Arts Centre in
SOME
EVENTS FOR PENICUIK’S HOMECOMING YEAR 2009
Penicuik
Trust’s fortnightly CINEMA programme in the Cowan Institute,