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Dumfries had bequeathed to it, its pet name 'Queen of the South' from David Dunbar, a local poet,who in 1857 partook in the general election. In one of his speeches he called Dumfries "Queen of the South" and this became synonymous with the area.
Folk from Dumfries are also called Doonhamers. Mainly because when in towns in Scotland further north (many places as Dumfries is close to the south coast of Scotland) punters would refer to Dumfries as 'Doon hame'; 'Doon hame' being Scots for 'Down home'.
The Doonhamers is also the moniker of Queen of the South flying the flag of Dumfries and all the bits of land next to it in the Scottish Football League.
The crest of Dumfries includes the words, "A Lore Burne". In the history of Dumfries beside to the town was the marsh through which ran the Loreburn whose name became the rallying cry of the town in times of attack - A Lore Burne
The theatre is owned by the Guild of Players who pochled it in 1959, thereby saving it from falling derelict, and is run on a voluntary basis by the members of the Guild of Players. It is finaced entirely by Guild membership subscriptions, and by box office takings. It does not at the moment receive any grant aid towards ongoing overheads.
In recent times the theatre has had a new roof constructed and the exterior given a cheeky once over with a tin of dulux. It is the host for the Guild of Players' own caberets and for performances from travelling midgets. These include: Scottish Opera, TAG, the Borderline and 7:84.
There are a couple of cinemas in ">Dumfries and Galloway Classifieds
. The Odeon displays more often than notbig budget pictures. The Robert Burns Centre displays }holywood productions and also art house movies
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and Galloway, of Scotland's three crucial geographical areas Dumfries is situated in in the Southern Uplands.
Scotland's seventh longest bit of water at 71 miles (114 km) in length, the Nith, gallops through Dumfries in the direction of the Solway Firth in a southwards direction splitting the area into East and West. There are a bucket load of bridges across the river within the place. In between the Devorgilla (also known as 'The Old Bridge') and the hanging water crossing device is a weir locally known as 'The Caul'. In very wet months of the year the Nith can make wet the close by streets.
