This recognisable photo is of course Shuttle Row at Blantyre Works, down the Village. Taken in the 1920’s, this was a time before it became a museum, before any great renovation. The photo is actually 3 photos stitched together obtained from an American cigarette card. You can just about see the joints at either […]
This is a rare and previously unseen online photograph of Shuttle Row taken by Rev. J. I. MacNair. Gordon Cook told me, “It has a heading “Homes and Haunts of the Greats”. It’s a view I haven’t seen before and shows some of the original tees. In the caption is states “A subscription was […]
Some wonderful photos next of busy David Livingstone Grounds during one summer in the late 1930’s. The Livingstone Memorial was busy that day, as were the grounds with many hundreds of people coming along for some summer fun. Groups of people huddle around the seats under the large trees sitting in the shade. Shuttle Row […]
This story has been pieced together using several news reports. This is the tale of a Burnbank girl tortured by scandal, and featuring heroic actions of 2 Blantyre men. In 1924 Mary M‘Gladdery was a young woman who lived at 309 Glasgow Road, Burnbank and for many years until then had been the merriest […]
Shuttle Row clearly had seen better days by the time this picture was taken around the early 1920’s. This was a time when it was embarrassing to welcome visitors to Blantyre who wanted to see the birthplace of David Livingstone, a situation, which amongst other reasons for preserving the building, gave rise to the need […]
Just prior to the David Livingstone Centre being renovated and turned into the Museum in the late 1920’s, it had become in a deplorable state. The render discoloured and old had fallen off the wall, dampness had set in. The windows rotted, brickwork crumbling, water ingress into the building and woodwork rotting too. The […]
Good news! Following National Trust’s extraction from the David Livingstone Centre back in 2016, and with last years funding granted to David Livingstone Trust, talks have resumed again about creating Blantyre history exhibitions and hopefully the first steps towards a permanent Blantyre history offline archive. Background Plans for a permanent Blantyre History museum and series […]