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Livingstone's Birth Room

Livingstone's Birth Room

Livingstone's entitre family once lived in this tiny room, photographed in the 1920's. The old village grounds were purchased in 1927 to create the David Livingstone Memorial, and two years were spent working on the Shuttle Row tenement before the museum opened. Generations of curators must have used a degree of poetic lincence as the room's furnishings have changed considerably with time.

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