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JM Barrie's birthplace 9 Brechin Road, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland DD8 4BX. (run by the National Trust for Scotland)
On the way home from a recent trip to Aberdeenshire my family and l visited the small town of Kirriemuir, which apart from being well known for it's gingerbread is also the birthplace of JM Barrie who created Peter Pan. We visited the house where he was born in 1860 and saw the wash house which he used to play in and where he put plays on with his friends, later he said it was his first theatre and his inspiration for the little house the Lost Boys built in Never Land for Wendy.
There is an exhibition about JM Barrie and there is various items connected with his life. There is a dressing up room/small play area for children. In the garden there is a willow crocodile which children can run through. If you are in the area it is worth a visit.
Extract from information booklet JM Barrie's Birthplace
When JM Barrie was 6 years old his older brother David died, at the early age of 13. David had been the apple of his mother's eye. The close knit family was shattered by the death and his mother never really recovered. She was 'always delicate from that hour' wrote Barrie later. Barrie consciously tried to replace David for his mother, but concluded "I had not made her forget...when l became a man, he was still a boy of 13". One of the seeds of Peter Pan had been sown.
On the way home from a recent trip to Aberdeenshire my family and l visited the small town of Kirriemuir, which apart from being well known for it's gingerbread is also the birthplace of JM Barrie who created Peter Pan. We visited the house where he was born in 1860 and saw the wash house which he used to play in and where he put plays on with his friends, later he said it was his first theatre and his inspiration for the little house the Lost Boys built in Never Land for Wendy.
There is an exhibition about JM Barrie and there is various items connected with his life. There is a dressing up room/small play area for children. In the garden there is a willow crocodile which children can run through. If you are in the area it is worth a visit.
Extract from information booklet JM Barrie's Birthplace
When JM Barrie was 6 years old his older brother David died, at the early age of 13. David had been the apple of his mother's eye. The close knit family was shattered by the death and his mother never really recovered. She was 'always delicate from that hour' wrote Barrie later. Barrie consciously tried to replace David for his mother, but concluded "I had not made her forget...when l became a man, he was still a boy of 13". One of the seeds of Peter Pan had been sown.
