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The David Livingstone Birthplace re-opens in Blantyre in just over a months time on Wednesday 28th July 2021. The extensive £9.1m renovation of the museum, cafe, shop and toilets promises to be exciting and put Blantyre firmly back on the map. As the countdown continues, here’s a sneak peak at the Birthplace room, which when […]
The new signs are up at David Livingstone Birthplace as the former David Livingstone Centre gets rebranded. A full month of further work is underway to get the museum ready ahead of its exciting re-opening on 28th July 2021, and tickets are already on sale at https://www.david-livingstone-birthplace.org The new Cafe and brand new Playpark will […]
A pause today on our continuing story of how the David Livingstone Centre was formed in the 1920s. Today, we very much bring you right up to the present day with the exciting announcement this week that the centre, now rebranded as David Livingstone Birthplace is opening next month! The David Livingstone Birthplace in South […]
Reader, Denis Wade shared this touching story of helping his mother see a family grave for the first time: “My dad passed away November 2020. During a time of reflection with my mum aged 83, she commented how she has never seen her mum & dad’s grave. This got me thinking how good it would […]
Continuing our story of how the David Livingstone Centre was formed in the late 1920’s. From an account in the 1940’s transcribed here: “The enthusiastic interest that our scheme now began to excite enabled us to carry through without restriction another of our plans. We were anxious that the wall pictures that were to illustrate […]
A beautiful little ‘writing slope’ (a rest to write your letters and documents on). This lovely object dates to 1873 and is kept in Low Parks Museum in Hamilton. The engraving on the burr walnut slope reads “Presented to Mr John Ness by his pupils Blantyre Works 19th July 1873”. The fine looking wood has […]
Continuing our detailed look of how Shuttle Row became the David Livingstone Museum in the late 1920’s. Transcribed from an account in the 1940s: “The main personal interest of the Museum naturally centres round the little room, ten by fourteen feet in size, in which on the 19th March 1813, David was born and where […]