Blantyre, Station Road, Livingstone Memorial, Interior View showing section of mule
SC 570057
Description Blantyre, Station Road, Livingstone Memorial, Interior View showing section of mule
Date 1980
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 570057
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Replica section of hand operated spinning mule, David Livingstone Memorial, Station Road, Blantyre, Lanarkshire David Livingstone, the African missionary explorer, was born in Blantyre, in one of the tenement flats owned by the proprietors of the Blantyre Cotton Mills. As a memorial to him a pioneering visitor centre was created in part of the mill housing. This view shows a section of hand-operated spinning mule built by Platt Brothers of Oldham to represent the type of spinning machine used in the Blantyre mills when Livingstone worked there. The hand-wheel of the mule headstock is in the centre. Platt Brothers were leading builders of cotton machinery. It is now impossible to judge how accurate a representation of an 1820s mule this is, but it is, curiously the only piece of cotton-spinning machinery in Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H80/11/11
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