SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
(Quakers)
PENICUIK MEETING
Valleyfield House
Through the pend and down the
drive at 17 High Street
Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland
EH26 8HS
A Friends Meeting is held on the first Sunday of
every month at Valleyfield House in the centre of Penicuik between 11 am and
noon, followed by a bring and share lunch.
Children are very welcome at Penicuik where there are often special
activities during meeting time.
Tel 01968 677854
Other Meetings nearby
Clovenfords (Tweeddale
Meeting) 2nd Sunday
Wiston (Lanark Meeting) 3rd
Sunday
Peebles (Tweeddale Meeting) 4th
Sunday
Morningside (South Edinburgh
Meeting) weekly
Victoria Terrace (Central Edinburgh Meeting) weekly
Please check with these meetings and the Quakers in Scotland
website (http://quakerscotland.gn.apc.org/)
for updated details on these and other Friends meetings in Scotland.
Public transport
Public transport to Penicuik for 11am Sunday meeting:
from Edinburgh:
MacEwans Coach Service 100 from Waterloo Place at 10:25 (10:29
from Usher Hall, then via Morningside & Fairmilehead). (MacEwans telephone
01387 256533). Or earlier Lothian Buses route 37 from Central Edinburgh
(10:15am from North Bridge, then via Newington and Loanhead) - telephone 0131
555 6363 or visit www.lothianbuses.co.uk to check. For more
public transport information telephone Traveline (UK telephone 0870 608 2608)
or visit www.traveline.org.uk). Please check with operators or Traveline
before your journey.
Click for map to find Penicuik
Meeting
-through the pend and down the drive
Penicuik
was the birthplace of James
Finlayson (1772-1852), the Quaker founder of Finland’s industrial city of
Tampere. The town is also indelibly
associated with Alexander
Cowan (1775-1859) the kindly papermaker.
Valleyfield House, where a Friends
meeting is held each month, was the home of the Cowan family, papermakers of
Penicuik. Their close cousin Thomas Chalmers, moving spirit of the Free Church,
leased Valleyfield House with his family as a retreat for three months in the
summers of 1829 and 1834 and many travelled from around Britain, America, and
Europe to visit him here in Penicuik, including Elizabeth Fry.
Alexander
Cowan’s granddaughter Charlotte Cowan (1833-1921) grew up at Valleyfield House
and took up public speaking in a series of campaigns on social issues with
Josephine Butler. Her partner was Henry Joseph Wilson (1833-1914), Sheffield
gold refiner and reformist MP for Holmfirth. Their son, Alexander Cowan Wilson
(1866-1955) was an ardent Quaker social reformer and campaigner for peace.
Charlotte’s
younger sisters at home in Penicuik
Quakers in Scotland Penicuik
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