Tour Scotland Spring travel travel video of a road trip drive on mainly country roads, with Scottish music bagpipes and drums music, on visit to the Peter Pan statue in Kirriemuir in Angus. The original sculpture of Peter Pan 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. Sir James Matthew Barrie was born in Kirriemuir on 9 May 1860, to a conservative Calvinist family. His father David Barrie was a modestly successful weaver. His mother Margaret Ogilvy assumed her deceased mother's household responsibilities at the age of eight. Barrie was the ninth child of ten, two of whom died before he was born, all of whom were schooled in at least the three Rs in preparation for possible professional careers. At the age of 8, Barrie was sent to the Glasgow Academy. When he was 10, he returned home and continued his education at the Forfar Academy. At 14, he left home for Dumfries Academy. Barrie enrolled at the University of Edinburgh where he wrote drama reviews for the Edinburgh Evening Courant. He graduated on 21 April 1882. He then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, first included in Barrie's adult novel The Little White Bird, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a " fairy play " about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Barrie died of pneumonia at a nursing home in Manchester Street, Marylebone, London, England, on 19 June 1937. He was buried at Kirriemuir next to his parents and two of his siblings.
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