2-791-491 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The room in which Burns was born, 1844. Birthplace of of Scottish poet Robert Burns, Ayr, Scotland. 'The small and low-roofed chamber in which he was born has undergone comparatively little change; the recess in which he was introduced into the world still occupies a corner of it; and it requires no great stretch of fancy to picture the humble garniture of the bed, and the ordinary furniture of the chamber, as the very same which it contained on the 25th January, 1759 - the ever-memorable day of his birth'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.