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Bachelors' Club, Upper Room.At one time the largest room in the village, it was here that Burns came in 1777 to take dancing lessons and in 1780 formed a debating society for unmarried men known as the Bachelors' Club. On the 4th July 1781, Robert Burns also became a freemason in this room. Pipes
Those members of the Bachelors’ Club who smoked, would have smoked tobacco from pipes like these. Made from clay, these pipes usually bear the manufacturer’s mark which helps determine where and when they were made. |
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