Friars Vennel Dumfries

[winonpens]

I used to regularly visit Fusco's in Friar's Vennel 1969/70. It was owned by the father of one of my school friends at St. Joseph's. The girl who served me coffee was the very first time I'd asked a girl to go to a disco. It was also the very first time I'd played a record on a juke box. Bob & Marcia's Young Gifted & Black! Fusco's was on our way to the buses 

[imchad]

Friars Vennel is named after the track used by the Grey Friars from their friary to the river. It was in the Church of the Grey Friars that Robert the Bruce slew his rival, the Red Coymn on 19th February 1306. That event was possibly the most important event in the political history of Scotland. It kick-started the Scottish wars of independence, put Bruce on the throne of Scotland and led to the treaties of Edinburgh and Northampton where King Edward III agreed to Scotland being an independent nation.  see www.brucetrust.co.uk

[dotty]

Thanks to todays contacts-really must go one day.

Dotty

[Skoosh]

Robert the Bruce murdered the Red Comyn in the Greyfriars Priory, Dumfries, presumably this Vennel was near there.

Skoosh.

[imchad]

Sorry, I meant to say that Bruce slew the Comyn on 10th Feb 1306. I must have hit the wrong button.