Local lady, Paula Stewart noticed these posters in June 2018 hanging up in the windows at the Africa Pavilions at David Livingstone Centre. The artist appears to be ‘Ivan Polley’ noted on the small print on the bottom. Marked “Blantyre Station” and faded by the sun, I had wondered if there were the actual posters once […]
Work starts on The Birthplace Project’s £6.1 million transformation of the David Livingstone Centre in Blantyre Construction work starts on site this week on the much anticipated £6.1 million Birthplace Project to transform The David Livingstone Centre in Blantyre into a world-class visitor attraction. Clark Contracts Ltd. has been appointed as the main contractor on […]
This is a rare and previously unseen online photograph of Shuttle Row taken by Rev. J. I. MacNair. Gordon Cook told me, “It has a heading “Homes and Haunts of the Greats”. It’s a view I haven’t seen before and shows some of the original tees. In the caption is states “A subscription was […]
We go back now 7 or 8 decades to an incredible picture taken at David Livingstone Centre grounds. It’s busy as you’ll see and the play-park as always is especially popular However, just look at the chute! Grown men are climbing on the chute and sliding down, some dressed in suits , others in […]
Some wonderful photos next of busy David Livingstone Grounds during one summer in the late 1930’s. The Livingstone Memorial was busy that day, as were the grounds with many hundreds of people coming along for some summer fun. Groups of people huddle around the seats under the large trees sitting in the shade. Shuttle Row […]
Good news! Following National Trust’s extraction from the David Livingstone Centre back in 2016, and with last years funding granted to David Livingstone Trust, talks have resumed again about creating Blantyre history exhibitions and hopefully the first steps towards a permanent Blantyre history offline archive. Background Plans for a permanent Blantyre History museum and series […]
During summer 1940, the millionth visitor to pass through the turnstiles at the David Livingstone National Memorial was nurse, Margaret P Mitchell, County clerk of Lanark Maternity Hospital, Bellshill. She is pictured here receiving books on the famous explorers life from Mrs Helen B Shaw, MBE, Uddingston, one of the governors to commemorate the […]