Signwriting
an
Open House exhibition at
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A few of over 100 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
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