Search

Contact us

 

Slide sets

Slides

Other images

People

Organisations

Events

Locations

Hardware

Texts

Keywords

Collections

Slide set: The toilers (song: Bamforth & Co., 14 slides, 1897)

Known references to this set (listed below slide images)
Show
Slide 1
Two tattered lads sat resting on a step
Slide 2
'How strange a thing is bread! if we have it not most surely we can't live'
Slide 3
'My father was a miner down beyond'
Slide 4
And a wailing and a rushing to the pit
Slide 5
Oh, happy ones of this fair earth, while gathered round your glowing hearths
Slide 6
'A fisherman was dad,' quoth the other
Slide 7
And our poor happy home was ever bright
Slide 8
'Poor mother wept a world of bitter tears'
Slide 9
'Off we sailed with a breeze upon the beam'
Slide 10
'Then our shivered mast went crashing by the board'
Slide 11
Thou with trembling hands he leashed me to a plank
Slide 12
For the cruel wave that bore me back to life
Slide 13
Left him on the shore, dead, for bread
Slide 14
While gathered round your glowing hearths, think of the toilers load of care
Lucerna ID  3001429

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 4 May 2024

How to cite this record: all the information in Lucerna is freely available for use for any legal non-commercial purpose. If you use any of the information or any images from this page, please credit Lucerna in the following (or an equivalent) style:

  Lucerna Magic Lantern Web Resource, lucerna.exeter.ac.uk, item 3001429. Accessed 21 November 2024.

All Lucerna data is published in good faith as the latest known version of the information, but without any guarantee as to its accuracy or completeness. If you can correct or add to our information, or supply any images, please Contact us.

Using images from Lucerna: all the digital images on the Lucerna site are available to use for any legal non-commercial purpose, free of charge, if you acknowledge their source and include any copyright statement as it appears under the image. The images are relatively low-resolution, and not intended for print reproduction or projection. If you need a higher-resolution version of the image(s) on this page, please Contact us to ask about availability.