HERITAGE SITES

Burns Heritage sites Ayr Burns Club initiated, planned, erected,

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LAWSON BURNS STATUE,

BURNS STATUE SQUARE, AYR


In early 1887
Ayr Burns Club member formed a Statue Committee for the erection of a Statue of Robert Burns in the Town of Ayr.

Details are available until 1892 completing the Lawson Robert Burns Statue, in Burns Statue Square, Ayr.





Extracts from the Ayr Burns Club Statue Minute Book will be published here later . Hopefully before 25th January 2009.

Revisited definitely timeously before the proposed changes in

Ayr Centre - visit site later.

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WALLACE AND `BURNS CAIRN,  THE LEGLEN WOOD,          RIVER AYR, AUCHINCRUIVE, AYR

Cost defrayed by President of  Ayr Burns Club,  Rev. Higgins

Site gifted by Honorary  Member  of  Ayr Burns Club ,  Mr  John Hannah.

14th September 1929 Dedication Ceremony, The Leglen Wood Burns and Wallace Cairn

Extract from the programme of earlier commemorative dedication event.

                                                                  


The site was gifted by Mr. John Hannah, Girvan Mains.

The cost was defrayed by the Rev. J C Higgins, BD., minister of  Tarbolton Parish.


The memorial cairn was handed over to The Burns Federation President,

for safe custody for the public.


The Memorial Cairn is 16 feet in height and is made of Ailsa Craig granite boulders,

it has two inscribed panels of Dunfrune granite.

The panels were supplied by Messrs Scott and Rae of Glasgow.

The Cairn was designed by Mr. James Carrick of Ayr.

Erected by Messrs J and D Meikle of Ayr. 

 

Ayr Burns Club


Extracts of Ayr Burns Club Committee Minute Books coming soon

WHAT PRECIOUS HERITAGE SITES DID AYR BURNS CLUB MEMBERS

SAVE FROM DEMOLITION?

Visit again and find out

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SITES With Heritage Association

BURNS MONUMENT ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER DOON

THE BURNS FESTIVAL OF 1844

To welcome his sons to the land of their birth

RECEPTION TO THE POET’S SONS AT ALLOWAY

The occasion of this Festival was the presence together on Scottish soil

for the first time in many years of his three surviving sons.

Robert (recently retired from the Stamp Office in London)

Colonel William Nicol (lately returned after thirty years’s service with the Hon. East India Company)

Major James Glencairn(lately returned after thirty years’s service with the Hon. East India Company)

  Join ABC Site again soon, for a further bulletin.

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