It is a sheer coincidence that I visited a market stall today in Stockton-on-Tees and discovered a wallet of postcards from Ayr, six in all, four of them related to Burns.
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| Good Luck from Ayr |
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| Burns Cottage |
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| Auld Brig O'Doon, Alloway, Ayr |
The Brig o' Doon was the late medieval bridge used as the setting for the final verse of Burns poem Tom O Shanter.where Tam, on horseback. is being chased by Nannie the
witch. He is just able to escape her by crossing the bridge (over a
running stream) narrowly avoiding her attack as she is only able to grab
the horse's tail which comes away in her hands. Today a plaque stands next to the bridge:
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| Brig O'Doon Plaque |
The fourth card contains the memorial to Burns.
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| Burns Monument and Auld Brig O'Doon |
For those postcard collectors among you the cover of the 'concentina' wallet is missing and there is no other information included to enable me to identify the age, date or origin of the cards or who created them.
Photo:
- Brig O'Doon Plaque Author - llkast, 2 Aug 2011; licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
