The Penicuik Heritage Regeneration Project is working with the Edinburgh Traditional Building Forum to make some on line training available in traditional construction skills . The first of these is one on traditional roof slating .This is planned for 25th June 2020 at 1.30pm and will be delivered by Graeme Millar , past chairman of… continue reading »
If you are out and about and with the family (safely of course) in Penicuik Town Centre you could down load our free Penicuik Explorer Trail leaflet and have a go at answering some of the questions. Please click here to down load the leaflet.Please feel free to put up any photographs you take or… continue reading »
As we find ourselves living in a different way there has been a nostalgia for some of the ways we lived in the past such as weekly shopping in the Penicuik Town Centre. How many know that the Penicuik Storehouse delivered by an amazing team of volunteers occupies the original Co-operative store? The slower ways… continue reading »
Whilst the PHRP Traditional Construction Skills Training Programme is in suspension we have a few tips for owners of traditional buildings ……bit like gardening tips ….this is what you could do this week : Go out and take a look at the exterior of your building , look at the roof , chimneys, gutters and… continue reading »
The story of the French prisoners of war in the Penicuik Paper Mills during the Napoleonic war is continuing to develop.For more detail information please click here to download the article by Sean Watson the Project archivist . Two more cartoons , the one above shows the French prisoners making model ships out of bone… continue reading »
As part of the project’s community engagement and training plan we have started working with Queen Margaret’s University drama students to create a drama based on the French prisoners of war at Penicuik . Due to the current situation this is now postponed but we are still working on possible stories that could be part… continue reading »
Due to the present crisis it has been agreed that the first three seminars in the Training Plan , on April 15th , May 23rd and June 10th be postponed until later in the year.See attached plan http://penicuikheritage.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Penicuik-HR-Training-Guide-Trifold-online.pdf
An exhibition advertising the Training Plan has been erected in the shopfront window of 4-6 High Street . This advertises the schools traditional construction skills training and the seminars and workshops for contractors, building professionals, and home owners starting in April 2020, through to early in 2021.Due to the current crisis with the cornonavirus however… continue reading »
The grant approved for the restoration and repair work at no 10 The Square has started. Scaffolding has been erected for roof and stone masonry repairs to the building.It is anticipated that the work will be complete by the middle of April .
Pupils from Beeslack and Penicuik High School were given the opportunity to gain some hands on experience of some traditional construction skills over the last two days. 45 pupils from each school took up the challenge. Edinburgh College tutors , experts in stone masonry, roofing and sign writing and marbling went into the schools to… continue reading »
