Blantyre, South Lanarkshire
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Blantyre is a town and civil parish in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, with a population of 16,900. It is bounded by the River Clyde to the north, the Rotten Calder to the west, the Park Burn to the east
Shuttle Row, the birthplace of David Livingstone
Western parts of Blantyre and the River Clyde from the air
Livingstone's famous encounter with the lion at Mabotsa is the subject of a bronze sculpture in the grounds of the David Livingstone Centre. It was designed by Ray Harryhausen who was married to one of Livingstone's descendants from the American branch of the family.
David Livingstone
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David Livingstone was a Scottish doctor, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingsto
Blantyre, South Lanarkshire
…Burn to the east (denoting the boundary with the larger adjoining town of Hamilton) and the Rotten Burn to the south. Blantyre was the birthplace of David Livingstone, the 19th-century explorer and missionary, and because of Livingstone's work, the second-largest city in Malawi is named after it. The name has a number…
Livingstone in 1864
Livingstone's birthplace in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
David Livingstone's birthplace, with period furnishings
Zulu dance, at Shupanga on the Zambesi, to collect tribute from Portuguese merchants