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 […]
In June 2015, I was pleased to make the acquaintance of Mr. Donald Clink, a Livingstone historian, based over in Canada. Over several weeks, I enjoyed emailing back and forth about David Livingstone, and learning a lot from Donald, whose enthusiasm and knowledge of our famous explorer, was certainly abundant. We got talking about Neil Livingstone, […]
With the David Livingstone Centre due to be renovated shortly, I thought I would record how the David Livingstone birthing room looks at this time, ahead of the makeover. So in Summer 2015, i took this photo. Located on the upper floor of Shuttle Row, Low Blantyre, here in the bed recess on the right, […]
I’ve recently posted about the Livingstone family members gravestones which were moved from the old Blantyre Works Cemetery to the David Livingstone Centre Grounds during the 1960s. During a visit to the centre in June 2015, I went to see the gravestones (located at the lower end of the gardens in the centre) but was […]
I recently bought a high resolution photo of David Livingstone. The photo is commonly known, taken by Thomas Annan in 1864 or 1865 when Livingstone was back home on a visit from Africa. Now in amazing resolution, I can zoom in on detail on the photo, even to the detail on his skin and eyes. […]
By August 1934, it had taken seven years to bring to completion a movement to erect a memorial to David Livingstone at the Victoria Falls, Africa, which he was, (so far as is known), the first white man to see. Livingstone was bom at Blantyre, in Scotland, and as a boy and young man worked in […]
Two further photos of Shuttle Row, this time 30 years apart. The Black and white photo taken in the 1930’s then colour one in the 1960’s. The scene hasn’t changed much in that time, a fallen chimney or two, a removed tree or two. It is still highly recognisable today.