Post by Geoff on Feb 4, 2010 18:40:56 GMT -5
AYR, Ayrshire
Large W coast resort 12 m. SW of Kilmarnock. Robert Burns, who was born 1½ m. S, was baptized at the Auld Kirk. He mentions the old and new (rebuilt 1877) bridges in his poem ‘The Brigs of Ayr’. The Tam o'Shanter Museum in the High St. was formerly a brewhouse to which Burns's Tam, really Douglas Graham of Shanter, supplied malted grain. There is a statue of Burns by G. A. Lawson in Burns Statue Sq.
George Douglas Brown, who went to Ayr Academy in the 1880s, and made his name (as ‘George Douglas’) with the realistic novel The House with the Green Shutters (1901), is buried at Ayr.
www.jrank.org/literature/pages/11922/Ayr-Ayrshire.html#ixzz0ec6aAfJK
Large W coast resort 12 m. SW of Kilmarnock. Robert Burns, who was born 1½ m. S, was baptized at the Auld Kirk. He mentions the old and new (rebuilt 1877) bridges in his poem ‘The Brigs of Ayr’. The Tam o'Shanter Museum in the High St. was formerly a brewhouse to which Burns's Tam, really Douglas Graham of Shanter, supplied malted grain. There is a statue of Burns by G. A. Lawson in Burns Statue Sq.
George Douglas Brown, who went to Ayr Academy in the 1880s, and made his name (as ‘George Douglas’) with the realistic novel The House with the Green Shutters (1901), is buried at Ayr.
www.jrank.org/literature/pages/11922/Ayr-Ayrshire.html#ixzz0ec6aAfJK