Post by Geoff on Feb 4, 2010 18:19:49 GMT -5
TARBOLTON, Ayrshire :
Village on the B730, 6 m. W of Mauchline, frequented by Robert Burns while living (1777–89) at Lochlea and Mossgiel. He joined in the social life of the village at the hall attached to an inn, now called the Bachelors’ Club (NTS, open afternoons) from the literary and debating society of that name that he and his friends founded there in 1780. Burns joined the Freemasons, who also met at the hall, but after a dispute their two lodges, which had united, separated again and Burns and the St James's Lodge met at another inn, James Manson's (site nearby marked with a stone). He addressed a poem to this lodge. Dr Hornbook's house (‘Death and Dr. Hornbook’) is near the churchyard, and Willie's Mill (‘Epitaph on William Muir’) is at the E of the village. The opening lines of ‘Highland Mary’,
•Ye banks and braes and streams around
•The castle of Montgomery,
refer to the nearby Coilford House (burnt down 1960s) where Mary Campbell, who came from the Highlands, was a dairymaid when she first met Burns. He planned to emigrate to the West Indies with her but she died of typhus.[/color]
www.jrank.org/literature/pages/14547/Tarbolton-Ayrshire.html#ixzz0ebx4SADf
Bachelors' Club Sandgate Street, Tarbolton, South Ayrshire, KA5 5RB
A chance to find out more about Burns in this 17th-century thatched house. Owned and managed by the National Trust for Scotland since 1938.
Open: 21 March to 30 Sept, Friday to Tuesday 1-5
tel 0844 493 2146
Village on the B730, 6 m. W of Mauchline, frequented by Robert Burns while living (1777–89) at Lochlea and Mossgiel. He joined in the social life of the village at the hall attached to an inn, now called the Bachelors’ Club (NTS, open afternoons) from the literary and debating society of that name that he and his friends founded there in 1780. Burns joined the Freemasons, who also met at the hall, but after a dispute their two lodges, which had united, separated again and Burns and the St James's Lodge met at another inn, James Manson's (site nearby marked with a stone). He addressed a poem to this lodge. Dr Hornbook's house (‘Death and Dr. Hornbook’) is near the churchyard, and Willie's Mill (‘Epitaph on William Muir’) is at the E of the village. The opening lines of ‘Highland Mary’,
•Ye banks and braes and streams around
•The castle of Montgomery,
refer to the nearby Coilford House (burnt down 1960s) where Mary Campbell, who came from the Highlands, was a dairymaid when she first met Burns. He planned to emigrate to the West Indies with her but she died of typhus.[/color]
www.jrank.org/literature/pages/14547/Tarbolton-Ayrshire.html#ixzz0ebx4SADf
Bachelors' Club Sandgate Street, Tarbolton, South Ayrshire, KA5 5RB
A chance to find out more about Burns in this 17th-century thatched house. Owned and managed by the National Trust for Scotland since 1938.
Open: 21 March to 30 Sept, Friday to Tuesday 1-5
tel 0844 493 2146