Old Photographs English Street Dumfries Scotland

Old photograph of shops, people and buildings on English Street in Dumfries, Scotland. Dumfries was the home town of Robert Burns from 1791 until his death in 1796. The poet is now buried in St. Michael’s Churchyard in the Burns Mausoleum. Burns was born in Ayrshire and spent many years there before moving to Dumfriesshire. A number of well known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, and musician John Law Hume of the Titanic orchestra.

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