Old Photographs Of Blantyre South Lanarkshire Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Blantyre, Scottish Gaelic: Baile an t-Saoir, a town and civil parish in South Lanarkshire. Blantyre's most famous son is the 19th century missionary and explorer David Livingstone. He is acknowledged as the first European to see the Mosi-oa-Tunya, Tokaleya and Tonga: the Smoke that Thunders which he named in English the Victoria Falls after the then British sovereign Queen Victoria. His former house is now a museum which is at the end of Station Road, on the banks of the River Clyde. This centre includes a museum, a playpark, a cafe, a shop, an African Garden and several workshop studios. An adventure assault course also existed there until a young man died in 1995. Mandala, the largest city and commercial centre of Malawi, one of the countries which Livingstone explored, is more commonly named Blantyre in recognition of the link created by Livingstone during the colonial era. Blantyre is loosely divided in half by Main Street, High Blantyre. At the west end is Priory Bridge, named after the former priory to the north which was home to monks from around 1235. There is also Coatshill and the village, the oldest industrially developed part of Blantyre. Glasgow Road continues south via Springwell and eventually joins to Burnbank. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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