THE LOST
RESTORING PENICUIK’S
LOST WALLED GARDEN
AND COMMUNITY
An initiative of the Penicuik
Community Development Trust
THE LOST
FEBRUARY 2013 —MONTH 12 of our 50 year project
The first of Tony’s two picnic benches
for Lost Gardeners in the Central Planthouse
PREPARING 2013
The first digging of the new plots beside the West
Vine House (where Stuart Macintyre tended those prized tomatoes in the 1950s:— see Lost Garden Story) is now
nearly finished and hand weeding is in progress. Charlotte, Cara and Maris Peer will be our
main varieties this year, with smaller quantities of Golden Wonder, Pink Fir
Apple and 15 other organic varieties featured in the LOST
GARDEN POTATO DAYS at Penicuik Town Hall every Saturday during
February and March
HORSE LOGGING AT
THE LOST GARDEN?
With Caitlin and Rab Erskine we’ve been exploring
the possibility of using Cob horse Angel of
Innerleithen’s Homestead Horselogging
Company to help us clear some of the
Preparation of biodynamic redcurrant and organic
vegetable beds in Eve’s plot at the west end of the upper terrace
The West Peach House once stood here at left, the
structure of the West Plant House as in the background
WEST PLANT HOUSE RESTORATION?
The West Plant House was newer than the original
1875 glasshouses at the
Lost Garden
--it was an 1895 replacement by specialists Mackenzie & Moncur.
Unlike the others, the structure still stands
today, but only just.
Chris
Scotland of Gogar Cabinetworks is to look at the task of how we might
restore
this timber structure (The West Plant House) over
the summer months if possible.
POTATO
DAYS 2013
Saturday
seed Potato days through February and March
from
Saturday 9 February from 10 till 2 in
Last year in
our first six months at the
See some
details of each variety in our 2013 Potato Day booklet
: www.lostgarden.co.uk/potato/days2013
(
JANUARY 2013
Preparing ground for new plantings
Architects & engineers tour the garden
In January we were delighted to show the Lost Garden
to Andy Davey, principal of architects Simpson & Brown, who are consulting
on restorations at Penicuik House and Rosslyn Chapel. Andy was responsible for the award-winning
visitor centre at Arbroath Abbey, for advising on restoration at Poltimore
House , Devon and his firm is consulted on brick garden structures at Elvaston,
Derby. “I thoroughly enjoyed my tour of the walled garden this afternoon –it
exceeded all my expectations! I think this is such an exciting and worthwhile
initiative.. As I said, we would be very keen to help you get started with this
long term project..”
January saw the first of what we hope will be many
working visits to the Garden.
and Dave Alcorn brought the Conservation
Volunteers.
January 5,6 and 12
Lost Garden story exhibition,
January 6: Lost
Garden walking tour
(
CHRISTMAS 2012
£1500-worth of Christmas Trees cut and
supplied from the Garden
AUTUMN 2012: SPEND PART OF A
LOST WEEKEND
WITH THE CLEARANCE TEAM
Jim Menigall and team have been
clearing more unwanted trees north and south of the Great Hothouse Wall and Jim
has also brought along pallets for stacking bricks.
If you can spare some time
(just a few hours) on Friday 19, Saturday 20 or Sunday 21October between 10 am and 3 pm to help tidy up
downtakings of trees or palleting all the dropped bricks that are to be saved
(60 per pallet), there is lots to be done. Bring gloves!
We are collecting stocks of
useable wood from the downtakings and Peter and Mitch have been making a long
dry hedge from the sticks and twigs to protect and shelter the west side of the
top garden.
Plus we hope to start the Fruit
Tree fence down the Grand Staircase to the left, to be ready for Tony's cordon
plantings in the cold season.
Come and join us. ALL
Dave Alcorn of The Conservation
Volunteers has been in touch about working with us at the
Bruce Joyce, Landscaper, has
given us a first estimate for rabbit-proof fencing either side of the Upper
Terrace
Our next
Dougie, Roger K and others meet
MSP Christine Grahame to talk about the Lost Garden on 7 November
Speak to Roger K about the Lost
Garden anytime at 01968 677854 or 07726 862850
OPEN DAY
Roger K took the monthly walk
around the garden for visitors from the
OPENING UP THE LIGHT
CLEARANCE
Thursday 4 October saw a work party
clear much of the space readyfor Kelman and drain-digging at the north access
side of the site.Dougie and Jim had already done a lot to remove the damp shady
growth which has choked our buildings and access area above the north end of
the
This follows the last planning
meeting onsite and back in town on 3 October attended by Shirley, Mitch,
Dougie, Jim, PeterC, Norma, Daniel, RogerK, Linda, RogerH, Tony, JaneK and
helper Anna from Singapore.
DOORS OPEN DAY at
the Lost Garden of Penicuik was warm and overcast, and saw over 50 visitors
touring the Garden in no less than five walking groups, with three times that
number at the Trust’s other Open Doors Day exhibition in the Cowan Institute (
ALL OUR POTATOES HARVESTED & SOLD
With
blight in prospect after national alarms and a change from soaking rain to damp
mornings of warm weather, we’ve harvested our potatoes in the first full week
of August. They were available bagged by
the kilo at £1.60 in our three organic varieties and have now all gone.
BRITISH
QUEEN,
our oldest variety, was introduced in 1894 as a cross between Paterson’s
Victoria and Old Blue Don. A great heritage potato, British Queen is the most prone of our three
varieties to blight so it was a priority for us to get it out of the ground and
on to your table as fast as we could.
Smallish but very tasty, the flesh is white and floury.
DÉSIRÉE, our last potato to be planted out late this
spring, has come along well in the rich LOST GARDEN earth. It was introduced in 1962, just a handful of
seasons before the
LADY
BALFOUR,
the variety whose name honours the indefatigable Eve Balfour who inspired the
Soil Association in the forties and fifties, has had the most benefit from the LOST GARDEN ground since we planted it first of all
this year. A creamy colour, with good keeping qualities and a taste that
improves with age, this is the quintessential organic variety.
All over
About our
bags… We bagged in simple paper, with
a sturdy outer paper-handled carrier, all supplied from Penicuik by Cameron
Reith at Puddock Bags in
sorting
an early batch of British Queen
STATISTICS FOR HARVEST COMPLETE AS AT
LADY
BALFOUR: Harvested
50kg BRITISH QUEEN: Harvested 39kg DESIREE: Harvested 31kg TOTAL: Harvested 120kg
Lost
Garden potato costs and revenue: seed
£42 bags £24 income £192
net £126
Trust’s
one-off site lease costs roughly £3,500 (less grant support £750) Trust’s
We
meet a demand for good but imperfect produce with our Waste Not Want Not range
Labels from the Waste Not
Want Not range
Estimate
from Waste Not Want Not potatoes (£7)
PENICUIK’S COMMUN
LOST GARDEN LATEST NEWS
POTATOES GO IN FROM THURSDAY
12 APRIL
This was the scene in the
Newly-dug garden ground is being
improved with well-rotted horse manure from Joyce Kent’s
MORE PLANTING IN MAY
See below how our western boundary
was cleared in June by the Head Forester
ALL THREE VARIETIES BLOOMING
IN JULY
Planning
The end-August planning meeting
outside in-situ was attended by Roger and Shirley and inside in Penicuik by
Jess, Stef, Roger, Caroline, Katie, Peter, Vito, Ronja, Ulla, Tony, Norma and
Mitch.
We visited the Royal Botanic Garden
of Edinburgh for induction on Wednesday 5 September (2pm Hope Gateway)and were
shown the impressively maintained growing plots, polytunnel, fruit bushes and
Dyers Garden by Jenny Faulkes.
Growing
Until harvesting week in early August,
our potatoes were all very large, all flowered, healthy looking and green as
shown in the pictures above.
The three potato varieties were
distinct on the plot: Lady Balfour, British Queen, Desiree.
As the potatoes were harvested we replaced
them with broccoli, leeks and other crops.
The bed between the potatoes and the
back of the
1 broad beans –these were harvested
on 30 September
2 spinach
3 beetroot
a few parsley plants and some spring
onions have gone in too.
Some anti bird nets have gone over
some of the plants but we will need more.
Fruit bushes have produced a small
crop of blackcurrants.
Further along at the plots just west
of the Central Glasshouse, some clearing and digging has been done to get ready
for more planting in the autumn and a big potato patch for next spring.
We think that all the carrot and
parsley seeds which were sown in the last glasshouse bed, floated away in the
deluges. Nothing appeared there at all, even after a second sowing.
Contacts and Offers
Jessica and Stef have joined our
group, and will help us select varieties for organic growing and construct some
of the things we need around the garden.
Mitch has donated wooden windows for cold frames.
Stella Rankin of Kevock Garden
Plants phoned to offer to help us with planting and growing advice and to host
fund-raising events at their Nurseries in Kevock Road, Lasswade. This is a
super offer.
http://www.kevockgarden.co.uk/
We have enjoyed a first work-session
with the Edinburgh-based Good Wood project
http://www.newcaledonianwoodlands.org/projects/goodwood.php
The team arrived from
We are in touch with the
Edinburgh-based Green Team about similar project visits
Roger Kelly met Army Welfare who are
considering some possible joint work –they have yet to reconnect.
We were offered a big free shed to
be uplifted and re-roofed etc. to house a temporary toilet. The shed had to be gratefully
declined in view of roof and floor condition, dismantling and transport. Two other free sheds have been brought onsite
by ready Paul for assembly
Caroline Maciver has made contact
with the volunteer organisations in
Caroline and Jane Mac are going to
apply for a grant to cover the cost of rabbit-proof fencing.
Mitch has bought a lost garden
strimmer and is looking after it on our behalf.
It was paid for using part of our tool grant. (NHS Scotland)
So far we have sold plants and
planters to the value of approx £50,
In addition to potatoes and other
produce which can be seen at the Town Hall Saturday Open House (10 till 2) and
at
There will be a dedicated money box
and a book to keep a record of sales, donations and expenditure in the Town
Hall
Katie and Caroline have made and
laminated some large colourful plant labels which have been put in place.
Other Reclamation work
Florance and Rik continue to
work on the fountain
and the impressive input and
output of the supply that serves it
Some of the main
Since the rhododendron was removed
by the Head Forester leaving the garden more exposed it was decided that Tony
Dore would plant artichokes which grow
tall. But the plants didn’t survive the jaws of their predators!
Tony (who looks after the orchard at
the Bush Estate) is taking charge of our project to plant fruit trees to be
trained along the walls of the garden. We should be able to grow apples, pears
and plums –these were grown here successfully in days gone by.
The whole length of side path (the
West Ramp) from above top to bottom has been cleared revealing a stone channel
which must have been both drainage and a roadway to wheel barrows or lead draft
horses to connect the 2 parts of the
garden. We have irises and a useful water supply. It The East Ramp is now getting the same
treatment
The compost bins are up to 3 now and
look great. They are getting filled.
We
just need people really! It can be lonely up there and it is great when
we get a good turnout. It has always seemed warmer and more sheltered than the
rest of Penicuik: those garden designers knew what they were doing.
Phone Jane K (01968 677854) for or
with any more information. or to join in discussion with suggestions.
Our next monthly meeting will be on Wednesday
3rd October at the
Our next
ACE:
Here is Ace who in the 1990s used to
overwinter on his own just up the hill from the Lost Garden, alone on the moor
at the head of the Carlops Road. In those long-ago days he seemed old and sad
and abandoned, just like the Garden. Yet now Ace is recognised as a horse with
real character. He’s just won the
British Horse Society Equine Personality of the Year. For the last 12 years
he’s given joy to disabled riders of all ages, passing on a sense of
achievement and confidence. His start in life was as a logging horse on the
Pentland Hills and he joined the team at
ANDREW SKEA POTATOES FOR THE
LOST GARDEN
The
Our potatoes were chatted before
planting out in the newly-dug northwest plot at E (see the ABC below) just
below the remains of the West Pear House. The ground has been dressed with well
rotted horse-manure-based compost (2 trailer loads and 44 bags brought here
from Joyce Kent so far) and (where needed) with potash gathered by Mitch from
Pete’s smouldered nettle roots.
International helpers Malte and Rike
from near
work on Penicuik’s
PLANTING IN ALL WEATHERS
While Peter clears ground up ahead,
international help-exchange helper
Vito (Tsz ho Kuok) from Hong Kong
digs to prepare for our next food
crop. Vito was determined to finish
the plot in spite of the rain.
Keeping up the pace are keen local
volunteers of all ages and a few young help-exchange helpers from overseas. Our
potato plantings this year began with LADY
BALFOUR. Scottish bred
for an organic early Maincrop, Lady Balfour is named after Eve Balfour the Soil
Association founder and has high yields and very good disease resistance. Oval
potatoes with splashes of pink they have firm cream flesh and a mild flavour. Lady Balfour was followed by plantings of BRITISH
QUEEN and then by DESIREE
into May as more freshly dug area became available.
Other varieties like BAMBINO and ISLE
OF JURA and special planting requests may follow on
other parts of the
FIRST FRUIT, FLOWERS AND HERBS
First donated soft fruit plantings
of Gooseberry and Jostaberry (blackcurrant-gooseberry) have gone in beside the
surviving blackberry bush in Eve’s Garden. By May the rabbits had been at them
already. Still, we got enough to raise £20 for The
DEVELOPMENT TRUST BACKS THE
LOST GARDEN
Meeting in Penicuik on 11 April the
managing committee of Penicuik Community Development Trust backed the
encouraging progress so far on the Lost Garden project and endorsed plans to
acquire Penicuik’s Old Post Office and Pen-y-Coe Press in Bridge Street to
maintain a popular local business and give the Trust and The Lost Garden a town
centre base to show our work and trade from during the week when the Town Hall
is being used by others. Read more about these plans on www.makers.org.uk/penicuik/press
MOSS AND LICHEN NOT TO BE LOST
We’ve been happy to clear mosses and
lichens away when cleaning steps and making them safe. We’re trying not to clear all the moss and
lichen from every other stone surface though. And we want to hang on to moss
and lichen encrusted trees. After all,
these growths are a sign of the good health of the lost garden and a big part
of its beauty and charm as the photographs show. A lichen display featured in
the Spring 2012 Science Festival in
Looking at the length of the upper
terrace where the greenhouses were, we’ve identified five distinct areas from A to E
running from right to left at the top of the
A is for
Adam, the symbolic figure celebrated a century and a half ago by Penicuik’s
Thistle Lodge of Free Gardeners, originally a sister lodge of Auchterarder. It’s
also for Auldjo Jamieson, the
The base of the eastern peninsular
greenhouse lies in area B which runs
westbound from there. B is for the Billies, father and son,
Area C surrounds
the main Central Conservatory, once the biggest and tallest hothouse in the garden.
Here is our main Congregating area for special occasions, without permanent
covering as yet! On either side of the approach we have planted one small bed
of flowers and another of herbs.
Next along is Area D with its
prolific Daffodils. D is for Dennis, the local bricklayer and contractor John
Dennis was born in 1842 as Dennis Murphy.
Here is the third and western peninsular greenhouse, rebuilt more
solidly in the 1890s. Perhaps because of
this, its structure still stands for us to restore, but currently it is too
Derelict and Dangerous to go inside.
Area E is the last
at the country end of the terrace (a brass letter E was found here at the start
of the project). As by far the easiest area for us to start with, it’s our
garden of Eden dedicated to Eve Balfour and her potatoes. We’re giving the old
blackcurrant bush by the wall here-where the Peach House once stood- some
gooseberries and other soft fruit for company if the rabbits will let us!
These areas A to E are
on the upside of the terrace. But each segment also has a downside parterre
held back by the retaining wall from the lower square walled area between the
foot of the long steps and the main gates. Apart from clearing and cleaning the
steps themselves, we’re not going near this parterre for the moment.
At the foot of the long steps, the very large
walled square Kitchen Garden divides naturally into four big quadrants around
the fountain. F is in the
northeast from the fountain to the fallen brick face of the terrace retaining
wall. G is in the northwest towards the
garden’s tiny gas works which still stands just beyond the wall. H is in
the southeast up to the heraldic gate and I
in the southwest points into the prevailing wind.
Back at the top end of the garden,
above the growing areas and on the other side of the hundred-and-twenty-foot
greenhouse wall was the long single-storey range of garden buildings, now
mostly roofless. Left to right along its
frontage was the Mushroom House (backing area A); Bothy, vennel and the rooms
of the gardener’s house. Later converted
to forestry offices, this was where water and electricity came in and the
inside loo was situated (backing area B); Central entrance and main workhall
(later woodworking studio) with temporary sleeping space above (backing Area
C); Former furnace and hot rooms now burned out and demolished (backing area
D); Former Garden Sabbath School now workstore area (backing area E). For more
about how all these things came to be, see the Lost Garden Story.
PUTTING THE
Displaced large long stones lie
across the land we are planting with potatoes in area E, like the dried fern
covered mass in the middle of this picture. They are in the way. We need to
move them a short distance back to their proper place. They once formed the
outer base of the longwall Eve greenhouse (once the Peach House) which we want
to restore one day. Moving these
megaliths is a challenge –a major test of joint effort, strength and ingenuity. Can you help?
LOST IN THE ARCHIVES
Our researchers at the National
Archives and in Penicuik are finding more about the history of the
www.makers.org.uk/penicuik/lostgardenstory
or come to the Saturday Open House
sessions at
The lost garden plan of 1873 has now
been found (click here for pdf view)
LOST IN THE P
Weekly cinemagoers enjoying Martin
Scorsese’s Hugo on the Trust’s big screen in
WE NEED YOUR HELP
both in the Garden and behind the
scenes.
Digging, planting, shifting,
clearing, cleaning, identifying, researching, partnering. And we need more
tools, thermos flasks, plantpots, manure, fencing, bricks, gravel, paving
slabs, old carpets, and publicity -for our growing plans and restoration. Give us a call or come to the Saturday Open
House in
Grand Staircase in March and April
–what a difference a month makes!
LET’S SHOW YOU THE LOST GARDEN
and what we’re doing to bring it
back to production and a sustainable future. You’re welcome to join our regular
work parties but if you want to look first we can give you a tour. On the first
Sunday of every month we’ll show you round if you turn up at 2pm to join the
group in the Penicuik House Estate car park on Carlops Road (just up the hill
from the Spear Gate). We’ll walk you over to the
OVER 50 JOINED IN LOST GARDEN
OPEN DAY ON
On 6 May over 50 people of all ages
came to celebrate the first few weeks of this 50 year project and some of the
planting and restoration work we’ve done so far. The roofless Central
Conservatory was our meeting place, prepared for the occasion. See Ruth
Strauss facebook pictures here.
LACK OF A LOST GARDEN LOO
Remember, there are no toilet
facilities yet! We are looking to provide them in future along these lines
perhaps –see product here
and local example here!
THE LOST
Go to www.makers.org.uk/penicuik/lostgarden for lots more
PICTURES OF THE
LOST
THE LOST
THE LOST
FEBRUARY 2012: THE
PROJECT BEGINS
At the end of February 2012, after three years of negotiations
with the owners, the Trust began a long-term lease on the great brick-built
Victorian Walled Garden at Penicuik Estate.
It’s the first step in what we see as a 50 year project for food production and historic
garden restoration.
For images of the
For the background story of The
For some of the early background to our restoration
project see
www.makers.org.uk/penicuik/food
For our inaugural prospectus back in 2009 see www.lostgarden.co.uk/prospectus2009
For our current Town Centre ideas for the
Pen-y-Coe Press see www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/press
For the restoration project of our MapaScotland
colleagues see www.makers.org.uk/mapascotland
Jonathan Martin Whitfield, MB ChB, FRCP(C) one of
America’s leading pediatricians and a specialist in neonatal care, talks of his
childhood in the midst of the Lost Garden www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/whitfield
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The walled garden restoration began in 2012.
Find out more about Penicuik Trust projects at the weekly Open
House in Penicuik Town Hall
On-the-spot exhibitions, on-the-spot hands-on crafts sessions for
kids and adults, onsite visits and more…
Penicuik Community Development Trust is
responsible for the Lost
Garden of Penicuik, Penicuik
Food Project, Penicuik
Open House, Penicuik
Cinema and the Bankmill
Project. The Trust is a charitable company limited by guarantee registered
in Scotland with company number 380626 and OSCR charity number SC O37990 and
Trustee Directors Roger Kelly
(chair), Roger Hipkin (secretary 20A John St. Penicuik EH26 8A ), Jane MacKintosh (treasurer), Dave
Stokes, Mose Hutchinson and Penny Wooding, forming part of a Managing committee
with Anne-Ruth Strauss, Bill Fearnley, Caroline Maciver, Chantal Geoghegan,
Chris Langdale, Daniel Baigrie, Doreen Gillon, Jane Kelly, Katie Sydes, Lynn
Niven, Marianne Cortes, Marjory Bisset, Mitch Lewis, Peter Coutts, Simon Duffy,
Simon Fraser, Ulla Hipkin, elected annually at the Trust's AGM. Paid-up Membership of over 200; Patrons: Ian Macdougall, Gerda Stevenson,
Colonel Edward Cowan. Trust official Website www.penicuikcdt.org.uk The Trust is a Member of Development Trusts Association Scotland
(DTAS) takes part in Doors
Open Day, and works with Penicuik Community Council, Midlothian Council, Midlothian Voluntary Action, the
Midlothian Growing Ideas Partnership (including Midlothian Garden Services,
Mayfield & Easthouses Development Trust, and other garden and food projects
in Midlothian associated with the Federation
of City Farms and Community Gardens), and the Mapa Scotland restoration of
the Great Polish Map of Scotland at Eddleston, and supported the papemaking
tercentenary led by Penicuik Historical Society. There are personal and mutually supportive
links with Penicuik
Community, Sport & Leisure Foundation, Penicuik Community Arts Association,
the Penicuik House Project, the Scottish Civic Trust and the Saltire Society, with community groups
and trusts in Aberfeldy, Broughty Ferry, Gorebridge
and Moffat, with
Penicuik’s twin town at L’Isle-sur-la Sorgue, Vaucluse, Provence, with Salaberry-de-Valleyfield,
Quebec and with the Papeterie
St-Armand in Montreal.
WEBSITE LINKS:
–how the
LOST
GARDEN POTATO DAYS IN PENICUIK TOWN HALL 2013
www.makers.org.uk/penicuik/food
–how the
Penicuik Food Project in the Lost Garden came to happen
PENICUIK SATURDAY ORGANIC & FAIRTRADE MARKET
–entirely
non-profit and run by local volunteers since 1990
–ideas for Pen-Y-Coe Press & Old Post Office,
Bridge Street Penicuik
-exciting
plans to show Penicuik’s papermaking heritage go on hold
.
Campaign
to restore General
Maczek’s GREAT
POLISH MAP OF SCOTLAND
-our forgotten
international attraction at nearby Eddleston, the biggest outdoor relief map in
the world
PENICUIK HOUSE PRESERVATION TRUST
PICTURES OF BIELD COMMUNITY WALLED GARDEN, PERTHSHIRE
PILLAR
AND MOON : THE GRAND ENTRANCE TO NOWHERE
Penicuik Community
Development Trust
Saturday Open House in the Town
Hall:
Some of the 100 or so Penicuik Open House
weekly displays
TOM ADAMS TOWN PLANNER FROM
CARLOPS TO NEW YORK
ROBERT
NASMYTH AND PENICUIK’S CORNBANK DESIGN
THE
COWAN PAPER ADVERTISEMENTS OF 1944
JOHN DENNIS
AND THE ESKBRIDGE BRICKWORKS
DEMOLITION OF VALLEYFIELD MILL IN 1980
Penicuik Community
Development Trust a message from the chair, October 2012
SATURDAY OPEN HOUSE. The exhibitions put on for Midlothian Doors Open Day in the Town Hall
with Penicuik Historical Society were a success and we look forward to more
cooperative ventures. Our Mars–Curiosity
exhibition was transferred to the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh at their
request and is being put up at
POSTCARD FOR PENICUIK. The latest competition to find images for more of the Trust’s Penicuik
postcards attracted over 50 entries and was judged by members of the public and
two professional photographers. The winner was a composite image The Burgh
of Penicuik
PEN-Y-COE PRESS. We expect to take over the buildings by the end of the month. Although
there’s likely to be a reduced service while we take stock and get organised,
we aim to keep many aspects of his business going, particularly the sale of
paper-related products and artists’ materials and a reprographics service. In
the future, we plan to add a tourist information centre, bookshop and heritage
displays, as well as papermaking and printing craft workshops and other visitor
comforts if we can. Discussions have started with Midlothian Council and others
about how to use its visitor potential to support our town and town centre.
THE GREAT POLISH MAP OF
PENICUIK CINEMA. With one of our largest audiences ever for The Best Exotic Marigold
Hotel, and then showing the new Ken Loach Angels Share only days
after its release, Penicuik Cinema’s superb weekly programme is now in full
swing. Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt and Kristin Scott Thomas star in British
Comedy of the Year Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011, Cert 12A) on
October 7. My Week with Marilyn (2012, Cert 15) is on October 14 -it won
Michelle Williams a 2012 Golden Globe. The original version of The Wicker
Man (1973, Cert 15) will be screened on October. It features Christopher
Lee, Edward Woodward and Britt Ekland in pagan rites in the wilds of
AT THE LOST GARDEN OF PENICUIK the Trust’s band of
volunteers continues to make progress clearing undergrowth, exploring water
features, restoring buildings and growing crops. Although only onsite with our
long lease to restore the
The Trust is people like you determined to stop the
rot and build real assets for the future to give our town life for a new
generation. Where there’s a will
there will always be a way.
Penicuik Community Development Trust is
responsible for the Lost
Garden of Penicuik, Penicuik
Food Project, Penicuik
Open House, Penicuik
Cinema and the Bankmill
Project. The Trust is a charitable company limited by guarantee registered
in Scotland with company number 380626 and OSCR charity number SC O37990 and
Trustee Directors Roger Kelly
(chair), Roger Hipkin (secretary 20A John St. Penicuik EH26 8A ), Jane MacKintosh (treasurer), Dave
Stokes, Mose Hutchinson and Penny Wooding, forming part of a Managing committee
with Anne-Ruth Strauss, Bill Fearnley, Caroline Maciver, Chantal Geoghegan,
Chris Langdale, Daniel Baigrie, Doreen Gillon, Jane Kelly, Katie Sydes, Lynn
Niven, Marianne Cortes, Marjory Bisset, Mitch Lewis, Peter Coutts, Simon Duffy,
Simon Fraser, Ulla Hipkin, elected annually at the Trust's AGM. Paid-up Membership of over 200; Patrons: Ian Macdougall, Gerda Stevenson,
Colonel Edward Cowan. Trust official Website www.penicuikcdt.org.uk The Trust is a Member of Development Trusts Association Scotland
(DTAS) takes part in Doors
Open Day, and works with Penicuik Community Council, Midlothian Council, Midlothian Voluntary Action, the
Midlothian Growing Ideas Partnership (including Midlothian Garden Services,
Mayfield & Easthouses Development Trust, and other garden and food projects
in Midlothian associated with the Federation
of City Farms and Community Gardens), and the Mapa Scotland restoration of
the Great Polish Map of Scotland at Eddleston, and supported the papemaking
tercentenary led by Penicuik Historical Society. There are personal and mutually supportive
links with Penicuik
Community, Sport & Leisure Foundation, Penicuik Community Arts Association,
the Penicuik House Project, the Scottish Civic Trust and the Saltire Society, with community
groups and trusts in Aberfeldy, Broughty Ferry, Gorebridge and Moffat, with
Penicuik’s twin town at L’Isle-sur-la Sorgue, Vaucluse, Provence, with Salaberry-de-Valleyfield,
Quebec and with the Papeterie
St-Armand in Montreal.