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This year’s Alloway 1759 festival has kicked off with a new centrepiece - a giant haggis passed through the streets of Ayr. The Great ... making its way to the Burns Cottage in Alloway.

Visitors to Burns Cottage in Alloway will be able to sample an authentic ... of the period to add to the experience. In 1781, the Ayr Incorporation of Shoemakers leased Burns Cottage out as ...

In the dead of night they cycled from Glasgow in tweed caps with their skirts tucked into trousers, two 4lb gunpowder bombs firmly on their minds. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

As you crouch in the old low building - the cramped living room joined to the narrow kitchen, which leads straight into the cowshed - it is hard to believe that it all started here. For "here" is ...

BURNS cottage in Alloway will play host to the opening day ... Screen Archive Children"s Film workshop at Carnegie Library, Ayr before an invited audience of children between the ages of 7 and ...

THE historic family cottage in Alloway where Robert Burns was born has been hit by vandals ... but we have not had anything for a number of years.” Ayr MSP John Scott, who was in the vicinity ...

The village of Alloway, just south of Ayr, has many associations with Robert Burns, the master story-teller in verse. Appropriately, the walk starts – or ends – at Burns Cottage, where the ...

On the 21 July 1801, the fifth anniversary of his death, his friends gathered at what is now called Burns Cottage in Alloway, near Ayr, where he was born, to honour his memory. During this ...