Traditionally a Burns Supper is held on the Bard's birthday, although the first was held by the poet’s friends at Burns Cottage on July 21 to mark the fifth anniversary of his death.
Over a meal of haggis, neeps and tatties poetry is recited, such as ‘To a Mouse’ and ‘Address to the Haggis’, with the men making fun of the women in the ‘Toast to the Lassies', before the girls have the last laugh with the 'Reply From the Lassies'.
Here’s what was going on in the Capital in the 1950s and 1960s.
5. Bard Centrepiece
The Craiglockhart Parish Church Men's Association Burns Supper in 1965. Photo: Unknown
6. Piped in
A piper pipes in the haggis at the Edinburgh Darby and Joan Club Burns Supper in 1963. Photo: Unknown
7. Starting them young
The Corstorphine Progressive Association Burns Supper in the Maybury Road House in 1962. Photo: Unknown
8. Dressed to kilt
Mr and Mrs C Consland, Lord Milligan, Mr and Mrs H Hayhoe, and Mrs Irene Eivan at the Edinburgh Burns Club Burns Supper in the Carlton Hotel in 1963. Photo: Unknown