Two wonderful books!
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, […]
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Cath Livingstone
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 […]
1997 Crothers Family Reunited
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 […]
Hamilton Tablet for Livingstone
In 1913, as the country celebrated 100 year centenary of Livingstone’s birth, a memorial tablet was also unveiled in St James Congregational Church, Hamilton, with which the Livingstone family […]
Blantyre Works Mill Bell
I’ve got loads of amazing new photos exclusively coming soon to Blantyre Project. This is the Blantyre Mill building in 1903, which was located between the Cotton Mill and […]
Opening David Livingstone Centre
An impressive ceremonial in presence of a huge crowd gathered from all over Scotland, the Duchess of York on Saturday 5th October 1929, formally declared open, the National Memorial at Blantyre to […]
Livingstone Move to Hamilton
Livingstone historian, Mr. Donald Livingstone Clink, based over in Canada and I have been emailing a few times back and forth. In the past, I’ve been able to learn several […]
Livingstone’s Shawl & Case
Another important relic or exhibit in the David Livingstone Centre is the coloured shawl in which great explorer is said to have been christened in. It had become the […]
Missing Blantyre Colour Film 1950’s
It’s incredible to think of the amount of footage, film, photos and stories that must be still out there in Blantyre. This newspaper article recently arrived for my attention, proving that […]