Charity unveils plan to save barn where Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne

Robert Burns Ellisland Trust proposes to turn Ellisland Farm in Dumfries and Galloway into visitor attraction

A charity has revealed its plans to save a barn built by the Scottish poet Robert Burns where he wrote some of his most famous works, including Auld Lang Syne.

Ellisland Farm, on the banks of the River Nith in Dumfries and Galloway, was built by Burns in 1788 for his wife, Jean Armour, and their family, and it was where wrote pieces such as Auld Lang Syne and Tam O’Shanter.