Slide set: In the signal box (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 9 slides, 1889)

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Slide 1**

Yes, it's a quiet station, but it suits me well enough

Slide 2**

Then I thought of the lives in peril and what might have been their fate

Slide 3**

That night in our little cottage, as I kissed our sleeping child

Slide 4**

So she settled to leave me Johnny, and then she could turn the key --

Slide 5**

I lifted him up to mammy, and he kissed his little hand

Slide 6**

It was all in one awful moment -- I saw that the boy was lost

Slide 7**

I turned the mail to the centre, and by it flew with a roar

Slide 7a

no image available

Slide 8**

That voice! O merciful Heaven! 'tis the child's, and he calls my name

Slide 9**

And she'd leapt on the line and saved him just as the mail dashed thro'

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (4)

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), C 38

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 41

1910

A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1910), 33

c.1913

Catalogue of lanterns, slides and accessories (London: J.W. Butcher, c.1913), 262

Lucerna ID 3000539

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 18 March 2012

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Slide set: In the signal box (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 9 slides, 1889)