Slide set: Harry's pint: or, threepence a day (story: Bamforth & Co., 20 slides, 1898)

Set details Slide listing References to this set

Known references to this set (listed below slide images)

Slide 1

Harry was the ostler at the Green Man Inn

Slide 2

It was market-day that was the making of the place

Slide 3

Slide 4

Sunday was a sleeper species of the same class

Slide 5

Harry was a good steady man; quiet, obliging and industrious

Slide 6

My first acquaintance with him was when preaching in the open air

Slide 7

'Excuse me, sir', said Harry, 'but I thought I must come down and tell you!'

Slide 8

We kneeled together and gave thanks to God

Slide 9

His chin rested on his hands; his elbows were propped up by his knees

Slide 10

'What's that you're going to do?' asked his wife

Slide 11

Well he is a poor critter that can't keep his own promise

Slide 12

The poor woman was never so bothered before

Slide 13

Slide 14

She looked out though the slightly open door

Slide 15

It's all right, missus', said the man carrying the flour

Slide 16

Harry's wife turned in again to work at the bread

Slide 17

'Brought you a ton of coals, mum!' said the dusky driver

Slide 18

She reflected about it as she finished her bread

Slide 19

'O, Harry! the miller's man has brought the sack of flour'

Slide 20

'You see, dear, I've saved my threepence a day'

Catalogue entries (8)

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 218

1906

Lantern slides, exhibitions and entertainments, lanterns, apparatus, etc. etc.: hire list, season 1906-7 (Newcastle upon Tyne: North of England Temperance League, 1906), 5

1906

Supplementary list of lantern slides lent on hire: 1906-7 (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1906), 3

“Harry spends threepence a day in beer. Through a sermon he hears at an open air meeting he resolves to sign the pledge. Some short time after his wife is surprised to have the miller call with a sack of flour, which she maintains is not for her. The poor woman is still more perplexed when a man arrives with a ton of coal. A few moments later the husband comes in and explains that the coals and flour are the result of his having saved threepence a day.”

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 696

1910

A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1910), 180

1912

Wood's catalogue of over 200,000 slides, optical lanterns etc.: 1912-13, sixty-seventh issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1912), 361

c.1913

Catalogue of lanterns, slides and accessories (London: J.W. Butcher, c.1913), 293

1913

Lantern and slide catalogue 1913-14 (London: Church Army, 1913), 175

“A short story, teaching how much difference it makes in the family income when a very moderate drinker becomes a total abstainer.”

Lucerna ID 3001366

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 14 March 2024

Search for another slide set Print this record

How to cite this record: all the information in Lucerna is freely available for use for any legal non-commercial purpose. If you use any of the information or any images from this page, please credit Lucerna in the following (or an equivalent) style:

Lucerna Magic Lantern Web Resource, lucerna.exeter.ac.uk, item 3001366. Accessed 19 April 2024.

All Lucerna data is published in good faith as the latest known version of the information, but without any guarantee as to its accuracy or completeness. If you can correct or add to our information, or supply any images, please Contact us.

Using images from Lucerna: all the digital images on the Lucerna site are available to use for any legal non-commercial purpose, free of charge, if you acknowledge their source and include any copyright statement as it appears under the image. The images are relatively low-resolution, and not intended for print reproduction or projection. If you need a higher-resolution version of the image(s) on this page, please Contact us to ask about availability.

LUCERNA – the Magic Lantern Web Resource

Slide set: Harry's pint: or, threepence a day (story: Bamforth & Co., 20 slides, 1898)