During the first week of May 1977, part of the David Livingstone Centre was badly damaged involving a freak accident with a giant tanker. A 32t large tanker used for carrying bitumen for road repairs around the Memorial, smashed into the side of the historic building on the first Monday in May, causing considerable damage. […]
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Runaway Rail Tanker in Village
An eight-ton steam waggon, left unattended at Blantyre railway station on Monday 14th October 1929, just one week after the Livingstone Centre opened caused considerable alarm when it ran amock in the Village. It all started, when it is alleged, by two boys who tampered with the oil tanker and it ran backwards across the […]


