Souter Johnie's Flowers
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Souter Johnie's Flowers
Image: © Mary and Angus Hogg Taken: 25 Feb 2009
A flower tub outside Burns Cottage, showing Souter (shoemaker) Johnie. The lines of poetry come from the famous work, "Tam O' Shanter". The character in the poem was John Davidson, who lived in the nearby village of Kirkoswald.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.432904
Longitude
-4.63321