The Old Hall - Moreton
These images come from Mark Back:
‘Recently I’ve been amassing a collection of Magic Lantern slides. All subjects seem to have been tackled at some point or another: architectural details, landscape, portraiture, group activities, staged stories. And even the faded murky slides still maintain their sense of time and place, in fact even more so…’
Andresey Bridge, Burton (Feb 9th, 1940)
Burnham Beeches
Westminster Abbey - Coronation Chair
Epping Forest
Lower Slaughter, Cotswolds
Matt Stubb's Dream #29
Matt Stubb's Dream #32
St. Georges Chapel, Windsor
Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells - Toad Rock
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I think the final photo is the ‘toad rock’ at Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Sorry, Have just realised that it had a caption!
great…its funny but if they were recent photos of exactly the same thing they wouldn’t have nearly the edge that they have like this…curious and beguiling..
The Matt Stubb’s Dream slides are almost certainly from an illustrated temperance lecture. I just received a very interesting book about the widespread use of magic lantern shows as tools for moral instruction/entertainment. They were the “edutainment” of the day. The book is called To Catch a Sunbeam: Victorian reality through the magic lantern, designed and edited by G.A. Household from the collection of L.M.H. Smith (Michael Joseph Ltd. London 1979).