Old Photograph Friars Vennel Dumfries Scotland

Old photograph of Friars Vennel in Dumfries, Scotland. Friars Vennel was established in the 9th century by Scots, Irish colonists crossing from Galloway into Nithsdale, accessing by a ford over the Nith at the bottom of the Vennel. It is the most ancient part of the town and with a small part of the High Street formed the Dumfries of the eleventh century. In the late thirteenth century Devorgilla, wife of John Baliol, founded Greyfriars Monastery, at the top of the Vennel, in memory of her husband who died in 1269. In 1306 Robert The Bruce met John Comyn, his rival for the crown of Scotland, at Greyfriars monastery in Dumfries. A row erupted and Comyn was murdered. Bruce then became an outlaw.



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