Slide set: The land of gold (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 16 slides, 1890)

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Slide 1**

'Out-door relief? O nonsense! -- besides its against the rules'

Slide 2**

The children clung to their mother, the tears coursed down their cheeks

Slide 3**

The mother lay in the workhouse, racked with the hunger pain

Slide 4**

(Effect) And looked down the country garden, where the roses were in bloom

Slide 5**

(Effect) A wife sat alone -- deserted -- left with her babes to brave

Slide 6**

But the neighbours had traced the children to the busy riverside

Slide 7**

They were found by the men next morning, when the vessel was out at sea

Slide 8**

And showed them a hundred marvels they had never seen before

Slide 9**

He told the children's story to the men who were in the place

Slide 10**

The captain took the miner, and showed him the girl and boy

Slide 11**

Then he touched the children's foreheads with a hot and trembling lip

Slide 12**

A white-faced convalescent sat in the workhouse yard

Slide 13**

(Effect) She dreamed that the children ran towards her

Slide 14**

'Look what we've brought you, mother! We've been to the Land of Gold'

Slide 15**

As father and mother and children went out of the workhouse gate

Slide 16**

The dear old home and the garden, just as they used to be

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Number of slides

Manufacturer

Bamforth & Co., England

Other related organisations

in stock of Riley Brothers, 1890-1914 (item ref. 284)

in stock of UK Band of Hope Union, 1891

in stock of North of England Temperance League, 1906 (item ref. 137)

in stock of Walter Tyler, 1909 (item ref. 461)

Main type of image

life model

Main usage of set

recitation

Date of first manufacture

1890

Reading or song

George R. Sims, ‘The land of gold’ in The land of gold and other poems (1888)

Collections

16 slides known to exist in private collection

16 slides in Museu del Cinema – Col·lecció Tomàs Mallol

Subject keyword

SIMS, George R. (1847-1922)

Lucerna ID 3000610

Record created by Richard Crangle and Lydia Jakobs. Last updated 15 March 2024

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Slide set: The land of gold (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 16 slides, 1890)