The monthly meeting of Blantyre School Board took place in mid November 1899, a meeting where debate arose about an important matter. A letter was read from local clergymen and teachers asking for permission to allow Blantyre’s schoolchildren to collect subscriptions towards the erection of a monument to David Livingstone. However, this wasn’t to be […]
On 17th July 1897, it was reported in local press that Mr William Small is sick and tired of school-children coming to his residence, Olivia Cottage, Blantyre, and exhibiting on their posteriors, evidences and traces of the their strict teacher’s ‘handiwork’. The report suggested, “Mr Small has elevating ideas and tastes, as witness his “communicals […]