On the 20th March 1936, a newspaper report suggested the Livingstone Pageant was likely to be dropped due to a lack of Public Interest. A suggestion was made that it might be advisable to discontinue the ‘Livingstone pageant Blantyre for a year’ is made in the annual report of the Scottish National Memorial to David […]
This photo was taken on 8th August 1963 Low Blantyre outside Shuttle Row, birthplace of David Livingstone. Now, it would be common for many Blantyre families to have a similar Summer photo in their albums, but there is something special about this event and indeed the lucky child to the right. He was the 2,000,000th […]