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Wellwood
Burns Centre and Museum
- the home of Irvine Burns Club, established 1826, Scottish
Charity No. SC018485
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28
Eglinton Street, Irvine, KA12 8AS ::: Admission free
Opening hours: Apr-Sept: Wed, Fri, Sat: 2.00-5.00 Oct-Mar:
Sat 2.00-5.00
Parking: off East Rd (alley
to Eglinton St. beside SNP office),
or just at start of Quarry Road, parking next to bowling green.
Buses through Irvine stop at 'Wellwood' (ask for 'Eglinton
St.').
Email: honsecy@irvineburnsclub.org or leave voicemail on 01294 274511
Book Fair 2019
Enjoy the Virtual visit, courtesy of North Ayrshire Council
The
Burns Diary 2020, featuring Burns' time in Irvine, at the special
price of £5, in navy
or burgundy - is
available at 'Wellwood' or from the Support
page.
The Robert Burns pocket diary for 2020 focuses on Burns' stay in Irvine when he met two Irvine men who significantly changed the life of the young Ayrshire farmer. He came to Irvine as an Apprentice Flax-Dresser and left the following year as an Apprentice Poet.
William Templeton, a local bookseller, introduced Burns to the poetry in Scots of Robert Fergusson, and Richard Brown, a local sailor, encouraged Burns to have his poems published. Together, these two Irvine men changed the poet's life . The Burns in Irvine diary for 2020 tells the story of what happened!
2020: Jan.24th Annual Celebration
tickets available from Support page
at £30
+ £1 donation (to cover Paypal charge)
In Irvine, Capt. Richard Brown encouraged Robert Burns to publish his work, and bookseller William Templeton welcomed him in his shop, and, in this chair, in the back shop. Burns, while working at flax dressing, found Irvine a 'wonderfully educative place' (Carswell)
Other photos appear on our News page.
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Past President Annie Small,
2019-20 President Archie Chalmers
and Vice-President David Burns.
A
few website pages
Newest
honorary members,
the Schools page,
'Burns and Irvine'
by Rev Henry Ranken,
William Templeton's bookshop and chair,
extra information on our 1834 & 1846 President Capt
Charles Gray,
and a support page offering postcards, subscriptions
and Annual Celebration tickets.
"The A-list Burns Club", 'Scottish Daily Mail', 24 Nov., 2009.
Past President Bill Nolan is 2018-19 President of the Robert Burns World Federation and Immediate Past President Annie Small is 2018-20 President of the Ayrshire Association of Burns Clubs.
This website
has now served 'Wellwood' and the wider Burns world for over 20 years (launched
Jan. 1999)
President
Archie Chalmers welcomed a Deputation from The Grand Lodge of Scotland headed
by the Grand Master Mason Ramsay McGhee including members of Masonic Lodges
from across Scotland to Wellwood on 3rd August. The President, Vice President
David Burns and Directors Bobby Haswell and Iain Doole are pictured with
the visitors and with Bill Nolan, Hon Secretary of Irvine Burns Club and
the President of the Robert Burns World Federation. Our visitors were all
suitably impressed.
Scotweb,
Scotland's oldest and largest online store,
for any item in tartan or tweed
(IBC members please see note on our 'support' page)
Adverts
for
kilts and kilt accessories. Thousands of tartans. Free worldwide
shipping! :)
at heritageofscotland.com
to come:
The 2003 Annual Celebration as seen through the eyes of Chinese Channel Europe, who came north to film our event, and Ian Duncan, butcher, as a result of our presence on the web.
. . and, in development, a page on Wellwood and the Paterson family ...