In recent weeks, my fellow history enthusiast colleagues and I have been trying to work out the numbering system of the homes within Shuttle Row. Trying to work out which house number David Livingstone’s Birthplace was in, rather than simply saying ‘Shuttle Row’. There is a multitude of information available in census and valuation records, […]
On 17th January 1913, a reader of the Scotsman Newspaper came up with a good idea. Why not buy the dilapidated birthplace house of David Livingstone at Shuttle Row and turn it into a museum about the great Explorer! It was a fanciful idea but one that planted the seed of such a wonderful idea, […]
This is the inside of a Blantyre house in 1913. A very special room for its the birthplace of David Livingstone at Shuttle Row. Now, what is remarkable though, is that this was NOT the museum dressed up to show life in Victorian times, but was the actual home of a resident there at the […]