John Muir's Birthplace

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Content updated Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:33:35 GMT

John Muir's Dunbar... [home]

Black Bull Inn and West Port

Lawson Place

Lawson Court

Looking back towards Lawson Place

Handily, Peter Lawson, Dunbar's apothecary with plentiful supplies of castor oil, lived on the other side of the West Port, at the entrance to what is now Lawson Place.

'...This famous Peter loved flowers and had a fine garden surrounded by an iron fence, through the bars of which, when I thought no one saw me, I oftentimes snatched a flower and took to my heels. One day Peter ... caught me. I screamed ...(but he)... dragged me along to the stable where he kept ...(a)... wild pony, pushed me in right back of its heels, and shut the door ... I did not steal any more of his flowers. He was a good hard judge of boy nature...'

The garden and stable may have been immediately behind the houses on the left of the lane (where the gravel car-park is now).