Shuttle Row where David Livingstone spent his childhood with his mother and father were among the 2000 people employed in the Blantyre Cotton Mills in Blantyre on the banks of the River Clyde some eight miles south east of Glasgow, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. From a childhood of poverty he became one of the most famous of the European missionaries and explorers who opened up the interior of Africa during the mid 1800s.

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"Picturesque Scotland" Published Frederick Warne & Co; London Circa 1880

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Size: 3125px × 4559px
Location: Blantyre, Glasgow, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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