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Continuing a look at how Shuttle Row became the Museum for David Livingstone. An account written in 1940s remembers back to the efforts of the 1920s and how the transformation came about. “Preliminary matters having been this happily settled, our next action was to appoint an Organising Secretary, under whose guidance our formidable financial task […]
Continuing the story of how Shuttle Row became the Museum. This account was written in the 1940’s remembering back on the 1910s and 20s efforts to save the building. Shuttle Row is picture in 1929 after being saved. “Option over the ground having been secured, the next step was to form a temporary committee. We […]
Continuing the story of how Shuttle Row was transformed into a museum in the 1920s. Transcribed from the 1940s as follows: “The buildings that now form the Scottish National Memorial to David Livingstone were, with many others, erected about 1785 to house the employees of the Blantyre Cotton Spinning Works, one of the first experiments […]
The following extract is from 1943 or 44 taken from a little booklet about the story of the David Livingstone Centre. The whole extract formed the Preface of the booklet, which we’ll be exploring here over the next couple of weeks to celebrate the imminent re-opening of the museum. “Many people have expressed the wish […]
Things are changing in Blantyre with the imminent re-opening of Shuttle Row Museum rebranded now as David Livingstone Birthplace. Over the next couple of weeks, to celebrate the re-opening I’ll be telling the story in detail of how the Museum came about, charting its successes and struggles, archiving in writing how it looked and what […]
In 1911, a pedestrian out a walk in Bothwell and Blantyre took time to write his description and send it into the newspaper. Here, we have reprinted his account word for word, that Winter in November 1911 as he approached Blantyre. It makes for interesting reading! Shuttle Row is pictured in 1913 and the traveller […]
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, […]