Some more great photos of David Livingstone Centre playpark, including the main one where some of these zoomed in views appeared from. How busy that “frying pan” was and if you look closely in the background, you’ll see the former tenements at Ulva Place, just off Station Road and the former oilworks. Thanks to Gordon […]
About 50 members of the Elizabeth Scott Community Centre Playgroup in December 1978, were introduced to the 4 legged members of Strathclyde Police Force, the Dog Branch! 2 Constables came along to the Centre to show the children the dogs and teach them about some of the skills the dogs had learned. Do you recognise […]
I was recently sent a high resolution photograph of David Livingstone Centre, taken sometime between Summer 1930 and Summer 1934. The photograph shows an outing to the centre with many hundreds of people enjoying the new facility and the wide open spaces of the grounds. I have been able to zoom in on the photo […]
Inside the buildings next to Shuttle Row (currently used as the offices and conference facilities) are flagstone floors. Did you know that some of the stones within the floor, are actually the gravestones that were removed from the Blantyre Works Cemetery in the 1960s. The stones are difficult to find as the inscriptions are so […]
Mr Robert M’Callum of Blantyre who was warden of the Livingstone National Memorial at Blantyre was greeted by an unusual sight when he turned up for work one morning in May 1936. When going into the recreation park adjoining the memorial the other morning, he was surprised to see a fine specimen of a red […]
I recently bought this rarely seen photo. Everyday life captured in 1903 at Shuttle Row, the birthplace of David Livingstone 90 years earlier. A child plays on the steps, women stand at the door, on what is clearly a breezy day. Leaves pile up against the circular washhouse doorway, the washing on the line blowing […]
Occasionally a little gem falls in my letterbox. A wonderful old photo of David Livingstone’s birthplace Shuttle Row. The picture dates from 1929, just before the opening of the David Livingstone Memorial Centre. The wall on the left was built on the site of the old Dovecot/washhouse. The water well was retained and the houses […]