PLAQUE ON THE WHEATSHEAF INN - KILMARNOCK : 無料・フリー素材/写真
PLAQUE ON THE WHEATSHEAF INN - KILMARNOCK / summonedbyfells
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Kilmarnock has many associations with Robert Burns the most famous is of course that this is Ayrshire town where in 1782 the local printer ;John Wilson printed Burns's first published book of Poetry the famous "Kilmarnock Edition" or by its proper title "Poems Chiefly In The Scottish Dialect"Redevelopment and town-planning zeal has swept away all the buildings connected with the Bard, bar one, fittingly enough it has a bar too! The Wheatsheaf Inn is now a cog in the J.D.Wetherspoon empire but all credit to them for preserving this last remaining physical association with Robert Burns. Burns was well known in Kilmarnock and the plaque makes reference to his song composed for and sung at his admission to the Kilmarnock Masonic Lodge in October 1786: - The full text on the plaque reads:"The Wheatsheaf Inn was built in the early 1700's as a coaching inn on the Stranraer - Glasgow route. It is the last remaining building in Kilmarnock that has any connection with Robert Burns. What remains of the original Wheatsheaf is incorporated into this site. Note the crow-stepped gables, a feature of traditional Scottish architecture.Across the road on the site now occupied by part of the former Jonnie Walker bonded warehouse bottling plant was the Commercial Inn (pictured above) which was the meeting place of Lodge St. John Kilmarnock Kilwinning No 24. The Right Worshipful Master of the Lodge, Major William Parker of Assloss is mentioned in the Masonic Song "Ye Sons of Old Killie" ("Killie" is the local abreviation of the town name), which Robert Burns composed when he was admitted to the lodge in October 1786"YE SONS OF AULD KILLIEYE sons of old Killie, assembled by Willie, To follow the noble vocation;Your thrifty old mother has scarce such another To sit in that honoured station.I’ve little to say, but only to pray, As praying’s the ton of your fashion;A prayer from thee Muse you well may excuse’Tis seldom her favourite passion. Ye powers who preside o’er the wind, and the tide,Who markèd each element’s border; Who formed this frame with beneficent aim, Whose sovereign statute is order:—Within this dear mansion, may wayward ContentionOr witherèd Envy ne’er enter;May secrecy round be the mystical bound, And brotherly Love be the centre!To the Tune of Shawn-boy, or “Over the water to Charlie.Robert Burns 1759-1796. |
| 撮影日 | 2013-01-26 15:53:16 |
| 撮影者 | summonedbyfells |
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| カメラ | KODAK EASYSHARE C613 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA , EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY |
| 露出 | 0.053 sec (1/19) |
| 開放F値 | f/2.7 |
| 焦点距離 | 6 mm |