Continuing our detailed look of how Shuttle Row became the David Livingstone Museum in the late 1920’s. Transcribed from an account in the 1940s: “The main personal interest of the Museum naturally centres round the little room, ten by fourteen feet in size, in which on the 19th March 1813, David was born and where […]
Continuing a look at how fundraising was pursued in the 1920’s for the transformation of Shuttle Row from dilapidated slum into a beautiful museum. Transcribed from a 1940’s account: “Thus, despite these early disappointments, the committee had enough of the Livingstone spirit to go forward with the purchase of Shuttle Row, determined to cast the […]