These wonderful images of magic lantern slides from a century ago come from the Tyne & Wear Archive Flickr set Our Life-Boat Men. Follow the link to see more!
I wonder whether the series represents a particular incident and a particular group of lifeboatmen? I’d guess magic lanterns were too early for one of these blokes to be the legendary Henry Blogg of the Sea Palling lifeboat station. The line throwing technique looks good mind!
My thanks to Malcolm Woods for passing this one along…
