Souter Johnnie's Cottage in Kirkoswald Ayrshire
6th May 2014 I visit to Kirkoswald to Souter Johnnie's Cottage.
Where Souter Johnnie stayed 18th-century thatched cottage
and his friend Tam O'Shanter from the poem Robert Burns and is the home of John Davidson, the village shoemaker. today is owned by National Trust of Scotland that features the real-life statues sandstones of Tam and Souter with the Innkeeper and Souter's wife having a drink at the garden behind the cottage
Souter Johnnie (1961)
Kirkoswald in Strathclyde, Scotland.
Beautiful L/S of the rocky coast of the west of Scotland; L/S of a car driving along a coastal road; M/S of a sign post reading 'The National Trust for Scotland / Souter Johnnie's House'.
M/S of a car driving through the village of Kirkoswald; pan right to show a thatched cottage; M/S of a plaque saying 'Souter Johnnie's House - Built 1786 / John Davidson - Born 1728 - Died here 1808' and a line from the famous poem by Robert Burns.
M/S of elderly caretaker William Eaglesham, who looks after the cottage, in the garden, where four life-size figures carved from stone depict Souter Johnnie, Tam O'Shanter, and the landlord and landlady of Tam O'Shanter Inn; they sit in chairs on a small patio, as if gathered round a fire in the inn. William cleans the landlord figure with a brush; various shots of the other figures as commentator quotes from the poem (in a Scottish accent); part of Souter Johnnie's nose seems to be missing.
M/S of a chimney stack of a cottage; tilt down to show the window of the room where Robbie Burns was educated. M/Ss of William in the garden, cleaning the spinning wheel that belonged to Souter Johnnie's wife ('souter' means 'shoemaker'). M/S of the shoemaker's tools.
L/S of a butcher's shop and some cottages (originally Burns' school); the Tam O'Shanter Inn is seen at the end of the row. Various shots in a graveyard; C/Us of the gravestones of Souter Johnnie, Burns' School Master and Tam O'Shanter. Commentator quotes from Burns.
Note: On file are cameraman's notes on the footage shot, a black and white postcard of the stone figures in the garden and a small guidebook about Souter Johnnie's House from The National Trust for Scotland.
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Places to see in ( Maybole - UK )
Places to see in ( Maybole - UK )
Maybole is a burgh of barony and police burgh of South Ayrshire, Scotland. Pop. 4,760. It is situated 9 miles south of Ayr and 50 miles southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. Maybole has Middle Ages roots, receiving a charter from Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick in 1193. In 1516 it was made a burgh of regality, although for generations it remained under the suzerainty of the Kennedys, afterwards Earls of Cassillis and (later) Marquesses of Ailsa, the most powerful family in Ayrshire. The current Marquess of Ailsa lives at Cassillis House, just outside Maybole. In the late seventeenth century, a census recorded Maybole was home to 28 lords and landowners with estates in Carrick and beyond.
In former times, Maybole was the capital of the district of Carrick, and for long its characteristic feature was the family mansions of the barons of Carrick. Maybole Castle, a former seat of the Earls of Cassillis, dates to 1560 and still remains, although aspects of the castle are viewed as of concern. The public buildings include the town-hall, the Ashgrove and the Lumsden fresh-air fortnightly homes, and the Maybole combination poorhouse. Maybole is a short distance from the birthplace of Robbie Burns, the Scots national poet. Burns mother was a Maybole resident, Agnes Brown.
In the nineteenth century, Maybole became a centre of boots and shoe manufacturing. Margaret McMurray (??-1760), one of the last native speakers of a Lowland dialect of Scottish Gaelic is recorded to have lived at Cultezron (not to be confused with nearby Culzean), a farm on the outskirts of Maybole.
Maybole has a number of landmarks, reflecting its role as a settlement on the southwest Scottish coastline, 43 miles south of the commercial and shipbuilding concentrations on the River Clyde and Glasgow, and 92 miles north of Carlisle, the most north-westerly English city.
The ancestral seat of the Marquesses of Ailsa is Culzean Castle, now run by The National Trust for Scotland and located four miles west from Maybole. This dates from 1777; it stands on a basaltic cliff, beneath which are the Coves of Culzean, once the retreat of outlaws and a resort of the fairies. A primary rail service is at Maybole railway station. Set up in 1860. Two miles to the south-west are the ruins of Crossraguel (from Crois Riaghail meaning 'Cross of St Regulus' ) Abbey, founded about 1240. In the early 20th century, Maybole added a Baptist church. This was admitted to the Baptist Union in 1901 and appointed its first full minister in 1919, a year after the Great War finished.
Kirkoswald, where Robert Burns spent his seventeenth year, learning land-surveying, lies a little farther west. In the parish churchyard lie the real people who inspired two of Burn's fictitious characters Douglas Graham (Tam o' Shanter) and John Davidson (Souter Johnnie). Farther south are the ruins of Turnberry Castle, where Robert the Bruce is said to have been born. A few miles to the north of Culzean are the ruins of Dunure Castle, an ancient stronghold of the Kennedys.
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