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Description: | This photograph taken in 1999 is of the front of Burns Cottage in Alloway, the thatched birthplace of Scotland's national poet. Robert Burns the first born of William Burnes's seven children spent the first seven years of his life here. William feued this seven acre plot which became the site of the Cottage.
In 1900 the Trustees removed the extensions and restored the Cottage to closer to the conditions it would have been in when the Burns family moved out. Further restoration was conducted by the Trust in 1993 to give a more exact representation of the 1766 conditions.
William left the Cottage in 1766 to farm at Mount Oliphant and let the Cottage to various tenants until in 1781 he sold it to the Incorporation of Shoemakers in Ayr. They used the Cottage as an ale-house, extending it to accommodate that activity until in 1881 when it was purchased for ��4000 by the Burns Monument Trustees. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 01/01/1999 - 31/12/1999 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Burns Cottage, Alloway - the birthplace | Go to resource |
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