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Description: | Robert Burns (1759-96) Scotland's National Poet, Scotland's National Poet was born in a small thatched cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire, the son of a market gardener who feued 7 acres locally. During a short period the farmer poet composed a wealth of songs and poems.
This bed has been seen by several million visitors from around the world and is the central feature of the Poet's childhood home.
In the kitchen of the cottage in Alloway, opposite the fireplace, is the recessed box bed in which Burns was born on 25th. January 1759, the first of 7 children to William and Agnes Burnes, 4 of whom were born here. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1757-01-01 - 1757-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | The Bed in Burns Cottage in which the Po | Go to resource |
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