Tour Scotland Autumn 4K travel video of the statue of Robert Burns on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Stirling. The statue commemorating Robert Burns is located on the grass bank between Corn Exchange Road and Albert Place, a commanding position between the old and new town of Stirling, formed by the triangular plot between the Corn Exchange Road and Dumbarton Road, and unveiled on 23rd September 1914. The statue was the gift of Provost Bayne to his adoptive town and it was unveiled by his daughter. This statue of Burns was created by sculptor Albert Hemstock Hodge, born 1875, died 1918, who was born on Islay and studied at Glasgow School of Art. He started out his career working for the greatly respected Glasgow based architect William Leiper, born 1839, died 1916, before realising his true passion lay in sculpture. The base of the pedestal is granite with bronzie reliefs which represent scenes from Burn’s most iconic poems. Burn’s actually visited Stirling in 1787, but he had nothing good to say about the castle which was in a sorely negelected state by this point in time. Robert Burns, Scotland's National Poet and the Bard of Scotland, was born, on the 25 January 1759, two miles south of Ayr, Ayrshire, in Alloway, the eldest of the seven children of William Burnes, a self educated tenant farmer from Dunnottar in the Mearns, and Agnes Broun, the daughter of a Kirkoswald tenant farmer.
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