SATURDAY 23 &
an
Open House photographic exhibition at
PENICUIK SNOW PHOTOGRAPHS
PLUS BIRD SURVEY WEEKEND
JAN 2010 - COUNCILLORS DEMOLISH JACKSON ST
SCHOOL
REPRISE EXHIBITION: TIME TO
Business Plan for Jackson Street School prepared by PCDT
and submitted to Midlothian Council on 2 November 2009
JANUARY 2010 EFFORTS TO SAVE THE BUILDING
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
CHARLIE BRODOWSKI PAUL CARLINE
LARI DON IAN NEWTON LINDA EARLY
Upcoming events Earlier events
Penicuik Trust’s fortnightly CINEMA programme
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
NUMBER 200+ of the 200
most visited KOSMOID
& MAKERS
webpages