tions, easy accessibility and flat topography,
Limbe experienced a development boom of Indian wholesale and retail shops. By
1910 Limbe town surpassed Blantyre town. Low- and medium-density housing for
the European and Asian staff was in Mpingwe, ITG and Mudi in Limbe and in Mount
Pleasant, Sunnyside, Namiwawa, Kabula and Mandalain Blantyre. The Indian shops
included accommodation at the rear or on top floor. High-density housing for
the African workforce was far away except the Chiwembe compound in Limbe. The
development history of Blantyre was principally dictated by piecemeal
uncoordinated development as a result of individual and interest group
decisions relating to evangelism, commerce, farming, industry and
administration.
Blantyre is named after the town in South
Lanarkshire, Scotland, where the
explorer David Livingstone was born. Livingstone's missionary
end.
eavours saw the establishment of the St
Michael and All Angels church. The church dates from 1891 and was famously
built by a team of local workmen with no knowledge of architecture of building
techniques. Urban development was
further stimulated by the
