Vistors to the Howff

In association with the Globe Inn, members of the Howff Club are please to give parties of visitors short tours around the places of note which Robert Burns frequented and visited during his time in Dumfries. The tour is tailored the the requirements of the party from just the Globe Inn history and its Burns association, or to include the Burns house and St.Michaels Church, graveyard and the Robert Burns mausoleum.

Here are some photographs from visits :-

Some of the Aberdonians at Burns Mausoleum.
43 members of Aberdeen Burns Club visited Dumfries on 25^{th S}eptember and were met by Howff Club members at the Globe Inn. Following a snack lunch, the visitors were marshalled into manageable groups and conducted round the club’s 10 cent tour. The Aberdonians were delighted to be given access to Burns Mausoleum and several recited from the poet’s works in tribute. Although a few of the party disappeared into Marks & Spencer, the visitors gamely made their way round the town centre, admiring the Burns Statue, Burns House and St. Michaels Kirk before some fetched up at the Hole i’ the Wa to shelter from the rain before returning to the Globe Inn to be shown the Burns Bedroom and the clubroom before their High Tea. Aberdeen BC president George Stevenson thanked members for welcoming his party and for shwing them the places of interest. The Howff Club reception committee was Ian McIntyre, Dan Cook, John Lauder, Ken McKinnon, David Baird and David Smith.

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Visit from Newton Lads Burns Club, Danderhall, Edinburgh, on 28/08/10

President Neil Johnston and members of Sandyford Burns Club, Glasgow, outside Burns Mausoleum on 28th June

Libary sub committee meet with Gordon Ashley from Oz. Gordon is researching
material for a book on Burns statues worldwide and was keen to find out
about the club's Jean Armour statue."

Members of East Kilbride Burns Club and some Howffers at Burns Mausoleum on 5th May 2010

Bill Welsh talking to a visiting group in the close outside the Globe Inn