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

Set details Slide listing References to this set

Individual slides contained in this set (listed below slide images)

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

Slide title

Format

Image type

Production

Background

1

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

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Exterior location

location: Thongsbridge Railway Station, Thongsbridge, Yorkshire (West Riding), England
image content: Building or structure (exterior) – railway station

2

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

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Photograph

Photography

Exterior location

image content: Vehicle – train | Event – railway accident

3

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

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Studio set

4

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

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Interior location

image content: Building or structure (exterior) – railway signal box

5

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

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Exterior location

image content: Building or structure (exterior) – railway signal box

6

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

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Interior location

image content: Building or structure (exterior) – railway signal box

7

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

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Interior location

image content: Building or structure (exterior) – railway signal box

7a

[Slide title unknown]

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Unknown

Photography

Unknown

8

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

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Exterior location

image content: Building or structure (exterior) – railway signal box

9

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

Standard glass slide:
3¼ inches (83mm) square

Life model

Photography

Exterior location

image content: Vehicle – train | Human figure – man | Human figure – woman | Human figure – boy | Vehicle – locomotive | Human figure – child | Vehicle – railway carriage | Building or structure (exterior) – railway track

Lucerna ID 3000539

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 18 March 2012

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