David Livingstone was born on this day March 19, 1813. He was a Scottish Doctor of Medicine, a Christian missionary and an explorer. Born and raised in the mill town of Blantyre, Lanarkshire in Scotland, by the age of ten he was working in a cotton factory on the banks of the River Clyde. However, […]
A few more photos from the 1979 Blantyre Gala Day. Local Surveyor Ian Bell and Chemist Alistair Mair already had many qualifications to their name as professional men, but one Saturday in June 1979, at the Gala day, they added another accolade by managing the burger stall! One of the most impressive floats was this […]
A watch was amongst 39 relics of David Livingstone loaned to the David Livingstone Memorial Centre on Friday 17th March 1967. Dr Hubert F Wilson, the missionary’s grandson (pictured left) os seen here handing the watch to Robert C Mackie, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Livingstone Trust. The relics were previously […]
Thanks to Patrick Irwin, who works at the garden at TACT Hall for this book on David Livingstone. The author being Tim Jeal. Now, this is a book unlike any other on David Livingstone. Published in 1973, it is fairly controversial for Blantyre for within the retelling of Livingstone’s Life story, there are suggestions […]
David Livingstone was forever grateful for the education he received and this was acknowledged when he returned to Blantyre in 1857. At the end of that year, Dr Livingstone transmitted a copy of his Travels in South Africa, to his old teacher, Mr M’Skimming, of the Free Church School, Alexandria, with the following inscription […]
How lucky I’ve been this last month to have people give me so many interesting objects, books and stories! Following a whole batch of postcards arriving by mail last week, and a Blantyre film of 1948 delivered right to my door (which I hope share soon), I arrived home this evening to find a package […]
Catherine Livingston is noted on a broken gravestone within the David Livingstone Centre. “Cath. Livingston” on that lower piece of gravestone fragment refers to Catharine Livingston born abt. 1785 near the Cove or Cave at the southern end of the Isle of Ulva. Her Parents Neil Livingston Sr. and Mary Morrison and their family […]
At the start of July 1997, a family of 14 brothers and sisters, some from Australia, Canada and Ireland to remember their late father Blantyre man Robert Crothers. The family hired a coach to get them all up from Staffordshire. Margaret Campbell who shared this story told me that the had traveled from Australia […]