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Gourlays Wynd, DUNS, TD11 3BN

A narrow street leading off from Newtown Street.

This is the A6105 through the town.

The former museum (see Image) has been extended and refurbished, and opened to the public on 11th July 2019. It is due to be officially opened by Sir Jackie Stewart on 29th August. There are displays of Clark's trophies, accounts of his farming background and early years in motor sport and two of the cars he drove in very different competitions - a Lotus 25 Formula 1 car from 1963 and a 1964 Lotus Cortina saloon.

A museum of the motor racing career of Jim Clark, who farmed near Chirnside, and was twice world champion before his death at the Hockenheim circuit in 1968. Plans and an appeal are in hand for an enlarged museum to include some of Clark's cars - see the Jim Clark Trust website at http://jimclarktrust.com/the-new-museum/.

A cut-out of Jim Clark by the 1963 Lotus 25 R6 used in practice for the Italian Grand Prix. Clark became World Champion that year and regained the title in 1965. See also Walter Baxter's photograph Image showing the race simulator out of shot to the right in this view.

Newtown Street, Duns. A wide street, mainly lined by houses, but also home to the towns library, fire station, police station and the Jim Clark Room.

The Jim Clark Museum is the white building just appearing on the right behind the trees.

This museum in Newtown Street is dedicated to the life of Jim Clark, OBE, twice world motor racing champion in the 1960s, whose home town was Duns. It contains a unique collection of trophies and photographs and is open seasonally. When I visited this museum many years ago, one of the recent signatures in the visitor book was that of Ayrton Senna, the late Brazilian three times world motor racing champion.

In 1957 the then 3-year old car was bought by Jock McBain, a garage owner in Chirnside, for his Border Reivers motor racing team. Jim Clark was their most promising driver and this was his first chance to drive a car of such speed. In 1958 he entered 20 races, finished all of them and won 12. His success came to the attention of Colin Chapman of Team Lotus, leading to his career in motor racing. Details are from the information panel by the car, and an article in the October 2013 issue of ‘Classic & Sports Car’ magazine.

The Jim Clark museum re-opened in July 2019 after an extension and extensive alterations costing £1.6 million to the building at 44 Newtown Street. The admission ticket to the museum is valid for a year. For a view of the building in 2011, see Image Jim Clark O.B.E, who was twice world motor racing champion in the 1960’s, was tragically killed in a motor race at the Hockenheim circuit in 1968.