Autumn Peter Pan Statue Kirriemuir Angus Scotland

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of the Peter Pan statue, the boy who refused to grow up, on the High Street on ancestry, genealogy visit to Kirriemuir, Angus. Kirriemuir's most famous son was the author JM Barrie, born May 9, 1860, the son of a weaver, and the creator of Peter Pan. Barrie never recovered from the shock he received at six from a brother’s death and its grievous effect on his mother. Throughout his life Barrie wished to recapture the happy years before his mother was stricken, and he retained a strong childlike quality in his adult personality. The original sculpture was made by Alistair Smart, and stood in Glengate, Kirriemuir, but following damage to it a replacement was made and erected in its present position in the High Street. It was unveiled by the Countess of Airlie on August 13th 1994. Barrie died of pneumonia at a nursing home in Manchester Street, Marylebone, an area in the West End of London, England, on 19 June 1937. He was buried at Kirriemuir next to his parents and two of his siblings. Barrie’s marriage in 1894 to the actress Mary Ansell was childless and apparently unconsummated.

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