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The Globe Inn - Online Guest Book

Here are some of the most recent entries to our guest book. If you would like to sign our guest book you can do this here.

10 March 2008 - robert muir

Returned from a trip to St Petersburg Russia ,where we all had the pleasure of travelling with Jane Brown from The Globe Inn,what a funny lady and a great ambassador for The Globe and for The Burns Federation ,Thanks Jane for a great 5 days I`ll hold you to that pint next time I`m in Dumfries Bob (same time ,same place next year??)

25 January 2008 - margaret marshall brandon

I have visited the Globe Inn many times over the years and I hope they NEVER modernise it and make it into a 20th century version of the past. Let's leave history alone. Also, the haggis is the best I have ever tasted. Happy Burns Nicht to all.

27 December 2007 - Shug

I used to pop in here when I was a student at the Barony College in 95/96.

It was a great pub then, and still seems to be great. I look forward to visiting sometime soon...

Shug

19 October 2007 - Rozalynd and George Merrill

We visited The Globe Inn this June. My husband and I, my son Max, and stepdaughter Hilary, were warmly welcomed after a long day of driving and sightseeing. We so appreciated the private tour given to us by the jovial honorary manager. And what a wonderful lot in the snug bar! If we lived nearby, I’m sure we would enjoy many lively conversations there. We hope to be back someday. Thanks so much for an unforgettable memory!

Rozalynd and George Merrill

09 August 2007 - Mark Maxwell

My wife and I just celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary and our thoughts went back to a wonderful evening spent at the Globe Inn on July 28, 2001, 2 nights before our wedding. Jane Brown was an excellent hostess and good fun was had by all. We are planning to visit Scotland and the Globe Inn again in time for the Globe's 400th Anniversary. Please let us know when information will be posted concerning the celebrations.

-Mark and Sally Maxwell (Vienna, Virginia USA)

13 June 2007 - James Shaw

Its always nice going back to the Globe. Brings back the Memories

17 March 2007 - ALEXANDRIA HORYSKI

After seeing this site and my own interest in Burns and my Scottish Heritage this is a must see!!!

03 March 2007 - ALESHA SAVAGE

To Jane Brown
Thank you very much for the Robert Burns information it is very useful for my project
from Alesha Savage x

07 February 2007 - robert +sandra bryson

We visited the Globe on Sunday 4th february 2007,
We were given a fascinating tour,in the afternoon
and returned at night to be entertained by singing,pipes,accordian,and jacks mouthie
can,t wait to return for another visit

21 January 2007 - Andrew and Dena Feldman

Jane, thanks for all the fun a few years back...the wedding and dancing were a delight....a few days until another birthday for burnsie..cheers...thanks for the lock in....

25 September 2006 - Gordon Richardson

Grandson of Adam Richardson, President 1937.
Jane Brown gave my daughter and I an excellent tour. Well worth a visit, great atmosphere.

04 July 2006 - Chic MacDonald

went down to the globe for our annual burns outing, you get treated like Burns,the entertainment and tour were first class.
I'd just like to thank Jane, the piper and Accordionist..firsts class and the excellent bar staff

30 June 2006 - sharon bethel

have read lots of good comments in the guest book, looking forward to visiting you soon.

09 June 2006 - Peter Jones

I am sure I visited with Jean Bell from Thornhill and I will make a point to return in the future.

13 April 2006 - Helen

I was a waitress there at the Globe many years ago! Gosh - Maybe 16 years now! Andrew was cooking in the kitchen and I have many happy memories of working there. It was just dripping with atmosphere and history, and I tell everyone here in Chicago all about my time working there!
Happy memories,
Helen (formerly of Dalbeattie, now Chicago, USA)

26 February 2006 - Don Hyslop

My ancesters came from Kirkenbright.I was very impressed by your site . Thank you .----Don------

30 January 2006 - Siw Ekelund

Me and my husband and our friends Liz,Hugh, Carol and George visited The Globe Inn 28th January 2006. We had a nice meal and a lovely tour. I sat in Robert Burns chair!I saw his bed! An unforgetable memory! Thank you!

30 January 2006 - McKerrow

looking forward to the year! of celebrations in 2010. Hope everyone is up for it.

11 January 2006 - dave burns

my wife and i visited the globe on newyears day and was given a tour of the globe and r.burns:s bedroom and enjoyed the tour by the boss i also met his wife thanks for everything.Dave Burns

07 January 2006 - Leslie Heatwole

Well, as a great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter of robbie and anne, i must say it's a pleasure to know you're still in business ;)

30 December 2005 - Ian-Sniffer- Geordie-Speedie's Brother

It's at this time of year - hogmanay - when we miss our friends from the Globe (not including Super, Fraz, Speedy etc) the most!!All the very best from the Basque Country!

29 November 2005 - Stevie

Ex-girlfriend is from Dumfries and enjoyed many a good night in the Globe Inn following a Queen of the South game! Didn't realise you could do a tour if I ever get down again will make sure I re-visit.

07 October 2005 - Colin T Harris

Much enjoyed my all too brief visit last month. Hope very much to return again next year

12 July 2005 - Thomas Craven

I have sat on the Bards seat in the Globe Tavern many times.

10 July 2005 - becki

i did go there with my family its really good but it is a bit pricey because they is nothing there really but it still is a nice place to look at

25 June 2005 - Robert Burns

Hope to get there someday and see every thing.

06 April 2005 - Lisa & Nigel Ainsworth-Barnes

We were very impressed by the attention to detail at our recent ‘pre-wedding’ dinner. 10 adults and 4 children were well catered for in The Burns Room, it was just the right size for a cosy, candle lit, dinner for close family the night before our wedding. The Manageress (Jane) excelled herself as our ‘tour guide’ her enthusiasm for Burns and his work, and the history of the building, was a joy to behold. The food prepared by the ‘ever helpful’ Gary @ 1610 was excellent. We were all very happy with everything, my guests were impressed, some of whom had driven all the way from South Kent, so the warm welcome was all the more appreciated.

To top it all off the unexpected presentation of a bottle of wine for us both – with a little poem on it, balloons, and the heather, thistle, and tartan decoration (what a coincidence, you didn’t know his buttonhole for the next day was made up of white heather and thistle) – was a personal and moving touch which makes the whole night especially memorable. Fantastic food and a friendly welcome. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for making the night one to remember forever for all the right reasons.

05 April 2005 - Jessie Hislop

I had a wonderful eveing in the Globe a couple of years ago and I wish I could return tonight or at least soon. Your website is excellent and evokes the feel of the place wonderfully.

At the time, I was intrigued to learn of William "Jock" Hyslop and his wife (and read the letters and grace in which they were mentioned) but didn't think much more about it. Now in compiling my family tree I'm wondering if there might be a connection.

Would you know "Meg's" maiden name ? Or have any info about when and where they married or died ? Did they have any children ?

Thanks so much for great hospitality and I'll hope as well for a few leaves for my family tree!

21 March 2005 - Neil

Spent the last three evenings there Excellent and Friendly.

15 January 2005 - Max

Met Jane Brown at the Ayr races several years ago and haven't forgotten the experience !
Burns through and through ! xo

27 December 2004 - ellen

hey everyone! i cant believe i'v finally found this website! i'm related to robert burns. hes a distance realative off my mums side of the family! when i found out i couldnt believe it!
hes my great great great great great Grandad

from ellen aged 11 of england

29 May 2004 - Murdo

Just to say "hello" or even "Failte" and the web site is most impressive.

06 May 2004 - Stuart Fraser

Visited in 1997,can't wait to return.Best Haggis in scotland!!!

30 April 2004 - Drewe White

I am hoping to spend some time in my home town of
Ayr this summer and would like to visit Dumfries. See you then, Drewe White Ottawa

21 April 2004 - iain cameron

I miss having a pint or two and a good old blether with the guys and girls in the globe hope to visit again someday soon maybe I'll suprise you all take care CURLY .....

23 February 2004 - Joe Montgomery

My GGrandfather, Michael Farrell lived at 34 High st with his wife and family. She died 1914. I was told he wrestled a bear outside the Hole in the Wall Pub. He was a gas works stoker, He must have drank in the Globe living so close. Will have to visit next time I visit Dumfries.

20 January 2004 - JOHN ADAMS

ATTENDED A BURNS SUPPER ON 19/01/04 EXCELLENT NIGHT; EXCELLENT COMPANY;EXCELLENT SURROUNDINGS;JANE BROWN,S TOUR WAS FIRST CLASS

21 November 2003 - Dougie Abercrombie

Excellent!Congratulations!Brings back happy memories of several visits and one tour to the "Globe".Another visit would be great but alas not for a while."Cupar" & "Bowhill People's" Burns Clubs,Fife.

15 September 2003 - Robert Robertson

A visit home is not complet without a visit to the globe.

Note: Entries in our online guest book do not reflect, in any way, the views or opinions of The Globe Inn.