New Badge










The new Club Badge for the Homecoming Year 2009		 Home page heading
 
  Ian Strang's etching  
  ( more information see Club History button, on the left)


Club Information




              
                          Urgent message                     
Tickets for the St. Andrew's Night are now all sold, all 148 of them!  For the first time in my memory we have a waiting list!
                Those on the list will be informed by the Hon Sec of the procedure that will apply.
           
   
A stall will be set up at the St. Andrew's night to sell Jimmy Hempstead's books and small Burns related gifts. Members should bear in mind that they will be given a copy of "Ragbag of Rhyme" but may want to buy a further copies. The price of Ragbag is liable to be around £7 or £8 and it will be available on the night.
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This year is an exciting one for Burns Clubs and especially for Dumbarton Burn Club:  2009 is both the 250th  anniversary  of Burns' birth and 150 years since our the founding.

Details of the event planned for this year can be found by clicking the "2009 Events" button or the "AGM" button.

The mailshot re the St. Andrew's Night was completed and posted on Tuesday 13th  October. Ticket price is £30 and an early reply may be needed as these will be "hot tickets" and will be issued on a first come - first serve basis. Each member can have 3 guests
                       
Work is continuing on the new book of poems by Jimmy Hempstead and the final meeting with the printers took place on 4th November. As stated above it WILL be ready for 27th November.
Photos from the 2009 supper have been posted on Flickr, just click the button at the bottom left
                              
You can contact us either by way of the Email button or by signing the "Guest book" at the bottom of the page.


            
Club History



To commemorate the passing of the Burgess Ticket to the Burgh to preserve in their archives for Dumbarton Burns Club, the club commissioned Mr. Ian Strang of London, son of the late William Strang RA of Dumbarton, to prepare an etching incorporating the Bard and the Burgess Ticket.

The artist interpreted the head of the poet, drawing from the famous Nasmyth portrait and the Skirving chalk drawing, with possibly a leaning to the latter. In the lower part of the plate he has reproduced the Burgess Ticket. On the one side a facsimile of the manuscript and on the reverse side the Coat of Arms of the Royal Burgh of Dumbarton.

            In the distant background are shown on the poet’s right, the Auld Brig o’ Ayr and on his left, Dumbarton Rock, thus symbolising his association with the two ancient towns.

            Since 1927 the etching has been the frontispiece of Dumbarton Burns Club’s annual supper programme.














     
Pres chainAt a Committee Meeting on 23rd May 1957, members were asked to subscribe for a President’s Badge and Chain of Office. A design was prepared by Mr. A. Munro Neville, Art Master at Dumbarton Academy. President George Harvey was the first president to be invested with the chain and it has been in use ever since. The name of each successive President is engraved on the links.






                                                                                                  


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