Over 100 years ago, in a rural highland town at the foot of the Grampian Mountains, a baker named Walter Burnett created a gingerbread unsurpassed to this day. He christened it with the name of the town, and his famous gingerbread is still loved by thousands of Scots at home and overseas.
This year sees the 150th birthday of the famous author and play-write Sir James M. Barrie. Many will know the works of this famous writer, which include “Peter Pan” and “The Admirable Crichton” among others. Barrie was born in Kirriemuir on 9th May 1860 and the Peter Pan statue in the centre of town demonstrates the pride they feel for their famous son's achievements.
The iconic wrapping design of Kirriemuir Gingerbread has remained unchanged for decades and centres around a picture of a house, with the caption “A window in Thrums” - the house (below) was at the centre of one of Sir Barrie’s earliest books of the same name, and Thrums was the name he used for the town of Kirriemuir. | 
