Slide set: Neddie's care: or, suffer the little children (story: Bamforth & Co., 25 slides, 1887)

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Slide 1**

Slide 2**

Neddie looked wistfully over the railings at the Home for the Destitute

Slide 3**

In crossing the floor she stumbled over the recumbent form of a sleeping man

Slide 4**

'What have you been up to all day? Where have you been?'

Slide 5**

The poor boy was evidently in the last stage of consumption

Slide 6**

She wrapped her ragged shawl closer round the dying boy

Slide 7**

'Only a penny, Sir, please give me a penny'

Slide 8

'What were you going to say?' asked the Mission Lady

Slide 9**

Slide 10**

The room was quite empty except for the poor boy, who lay there in sore need of aid

Slide 11

She soaked a morsel in the broth and put it into Dickey's mouth

Slide 12**

'I can't leave him,' she said, 'he's such a little fellow, it would never do for him to be left'

Slide 13

He was very weak, poor little fellow, and glad of Neddie's help in raising the tea cup to his lips

Slide 14**

She poured a heap of pennies into her lap

Slide 15

'I'm Dickey's relation, Miss Gray, I'm going to see him. Do I look like a relation?'

Slide 16**

Hymn: 'The roseate hues of early dawn' (with vignette Neddie singing over Dickey's bed)

Slide 17**

For a few minutes after Neddie stopped singing, no one spoke

Slide 18**

'I never saw anything like it before,' said Dickey

Slide 19**

Slide 20

'Have I been ill, Miss Bell?' said Neddie

Slide 21

Hymn: 'I heard the voice of Jesus' (with vignette)

Slide 22

It became necessary, on Dickey's repeated enquiries, to break the news to him

Slide 23**

Slide 24**

Neddie put out one tiny hand toward them and said, 'Poor little Dickey, it doesn't hurt, dear'

Slide 25**

In the churchyard adjoining the home stands a marble cross, in memory of Neddie and Dickey

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (8)

1891

Catalogue of photographic lantern transparencies and apparatus: season 1891-2 (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1891), 38

“By permission of Messrs J. Masters & Co.

An entirely new and most affecting story about two destitute children, well suited to Bands of Hope and other Juvenile Entertainments.”

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), C 14

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 407

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 18

1906

Lantern slides, exhibitions and entertainments, lanterns, apparatus, etc. etc.: hire list, season 1906-7 (Newcastle upon Tyne: North of England Temperance League, 1906), 5

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 433

1909

Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 44

1910

A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1910), 10

Other references (2)

13 October 1887

[Stationer's Hall copyright register], COPY 1/382/63-70

1888

Walter D. Welford and Henry Sturmey (compilers), The 'indispensable handbook' to the optical lantern: a complete cyclopaedia on the subject of optical lanterns, slides, and accessory apparatus (London: Iliffe & Son, 1888), 299

“Or suffer the little children. The story of two poor destitute boys, Neddie and Dickey.”

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Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 5 May 2024

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