Dumfries ArmsThe Dumfries Arms Hotel in Glaisnock Street dates from 25th March 1717 and was originally known as the New Inn or Heid Inn and was an important coaching Inn. It changed its name in 1840 to Dumfries Arms.
Residents have included Sir Walter SCOTT and Robert BURNS (who made fun of the Inn by writing Old Cumnock, where beds are as hard as a plank, sir). Cumnock Burns Club, which was founded in 1887, decided to hold its annual celebrations in the Dumfries Arms.
Adam Brown TODD, an outstanding local literary figure, presided at the Cumnock Club’s celebrations for the centenary of Robert Burns’s death in 1896. Mr Todd was a colourful character in the town and was entertained in the hotel to a public luncheon in his honour in 1903.
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