On Saturday 5th June 1935, the fifth Livingstone pageant, took place in the open-air amphitheatre adjoining the Livingstone National Memorial at Blantyre and was carried out by the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides from the districts of Hamilton, Blantyre, Bothwell and Uddingston In all 120 performers were engaged in the production . The Rev. James I. […]
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Livingstone Pageant dropped
On the 20th March 1936, a newspaper report suggested the Livingstone Pageant was likely to be dropped due to a lack of Public Interest. A suggestion was made that it might be advisable to discontinue the ‘Livingstone pageant Blantyre for a year’ is made in the annual report of the Scottish National Memorial to David […]