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

Number of slides

Manufacturer

Bamforth & Co., England

Other related organisations

in stock of Riley Brothers, 1889-1914 (item ref. 207)

in stock of UK Band of Hope Union, 1891

in stock of J.W. Butcher, 1913

Main type of image

life model

Main usage of set

recitation

Date of first manufacture

1889

Reading or song

George R. Sims, ‘In the signal box: a station master's story’ in several compilations

Related slide sets

see generic title In the signal box (generic set title – 3 different versions are known)

reissued as In the signal box: new series (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 27 slides, 1899)

Collections

9 slides known to exist in private collection

Subject keyword

SIMS, George R. (1847-1922)

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)