PENICUIK JUGS

Jane Kelly: Penicuik Pottery at Valleyfield House

off 17 High Street Penicuik EH26 8HS

Hand-thrown jugs made here beside St Mungo’s Well

Valleyfield House and St Mungo's Well are tucked away in the heart of Penicuik through a High Street archway. Jugs are still filled at the well in the garden. The spring still flows as it has since long before the days of Penicuik’s patron saint (533-615). Deer drink at the well and doves gather in the garden. But the home of the doves that stood here in older times --Valleyfield’s ancient lectern dookit-- is now just a fading image in an early calotype photograph, and was possibly removed to Morningside more than a century ago.

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