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Friday, 21st November, 2008

Published: Thursday, 28th August, 2008 08:00

Secret archive to pay Service to poet

By John-Martin Fulton

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'Lost' photos to be displayed in the town's Abbey Tower

A WORLD-FAMOUS poet who penned the most expensive verse in history and starred in Hollywood alongside John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich is to be commemorated with a plaque - on the Kilwinning building where he was brought up.

Senga's Cafe in the Main Street, which in 1881 was the town's post office, will have its memorial shield replaced to remind people it was the place where famous wordsmith Robert Service began writing as a child of six.

Secretary of the Kilwinning Preservation Society Jim Miller explained the group wanted the plaque up in time for the fiftieth anniversary of Service's death next month and they were inspired after uncovering a collection of A1 photographic prints showing the writer in his finest moments.

For the fill story see the Times this week.