Kirriemuir
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At 9 Brechin Road is JM Barrie's Birthplace (National Trust for Scotland).
The creator of Peter Pan (first performed in 1904) was born here in 1860,
the son of a handloom weaver, and the building's outside washhouse was his
first theatre. He
was a bright child, attending both Glasgow Academy and Dumfries Academy (see
also Dumfries) before going on to Edinburgh University. He also wrote many
stories and novels, setting them in a small town called "Thrums", which is
a thinly disguised Kirriemuir.
In 1930 Barrie donated a Camera Obscura (National Trust for Scotland) to
the town, one of only three such cameras in the country. It is situated within
the cricket pavilion on top of Kirriemuir Hill, and is open to the public.
The Kirriemuir Aviation Museum has a private collection of World War II
memorabilia,
and is situated at Bellies Brae.