Slide set: Our Father's care (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 14 slides, 1880s)

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Slide 1**

When suddenly starting, poor Nelly awoke

Slide 2**

'Ah, Nelly, my blessing,' the sick woman said

Slide 3**

With shivering limbs and her pattering feet

Slide 4**

Slide 5**

Then off to the pump she courageously goes

Slide 6**

And Nelly's poor mother is sick and alone

Slide 7**

And then looked within at his bright blazing fire

Slide 8**

Slide 9**

The gentleman came down himself to the door

Slide 10**

And now let us look in that poor upper room

Slide 11**

'Ah! Nelly, you've come to see poor father die'

Slide 12**

And the hand of death had broken the chain of his grief and pain

Slide 13**

Slide 14

When, through the hand of Providence, there came the timely aid

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Number of slides

Manufacturer

Bamforth & Co., England

Other related organisations

in stock of Riley Brothers, 1887-1914 (item ref. 58)

in stock of UK Band of Hope Union, 1891

in stock of E.G. Wood, 1894 (item ref. 7674)

in stock of Wrench & Son, 1898

in stock of J. Lizars, 1909 (item ref. 515)

in stock of Walter Tyler, 1909 (item ref. 457)

in stock of J.W. Butcher, 1913

Main type of image

life model

Main usage of set

recitation

Date of first manufacture

1880s (earliest possible 1883, latest possible 1887)

Reading or song

Mary Sewell, Our Father's care (London: Jarrold & Sons, 1861)

Related slide sets

reissued as Our Father's care (service of song: Bamforth & Co., 14 slides, 1896)

see also Our Father's care: new series (service of song: Bamforth & Co., 44 slides, 1904)

see generic title Our Father's care (generic set title – 6 different versions are known)

People appearing in slides

BAMFORTH, James (1842-1911) – slides 11-12

BAMFORTH, Mrs Martha (1843-1894) – slides 1, 6, 10, 13-14

Notes

The slide list is identical to that for the service of song based on the poem – it's not clear whether the slides were remade for that set or the same slides reissued.

Slide 4 is a drawing with a photograph of the girl's face pasted on.

Collections

13 slides known to exist in private collection

14 slides in The Hecht Collection: Screen Archive South East (University of Brighton)

Lucerna ID 3000423

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 4 May 2024

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Slide set: Our Father's care (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 14 slides, 1880s)