Now it is hoped the latest funding package could give a longer-term future to the venue which once boasted RobertBurns as a patron and helped to inspire JM Barrie to write plays.
East Ayrshire Council Museum Service has two similar links from another of Burns' original surveying chains, and a handle from one of his chains is held in the RobertBurns Birthplace Museum.
Along with the Edinburgh Jazz Festival Orchestra, Temperley will also perform a new work by Dave Milligan, based around the love letters between RobertBurns and Agnes McLehose which they signed "Sylvander" and "Clarinda".
Another show written and performed in Scots, Tam o'Shanter, is a large-scale production by the Communicado theatre company - who have adapted RobertBurns' famous poem for the stage.