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February Meeting 2016 »

Burns and the Black Stool

Published 19 January 2016

Did you Know..

..that Robert Burns once rebuked his friend on the Abbey’s Black Stool?

Dr Jean Barclay tells the story of a visit by Burns to Dunfermline Abbey.

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