Wrench Magic Lantern.

Tonight the camera club had a "Magic Lantern Show" by way of a light diversion, and this is the lantern used - manufactured by Messrs. Wrench of London, established in 1816. The four wick oil lamp has been replaced by a twelve volt bulb driven by a car battery.

The show took the traditional form of a travelogue: starting in Edinburgh, spreading to the wider reaches pf Scotland before moving down to London and, finally across the pond to the Yosemite Valley. The early slides were hand drawn and painted while the photographic ones were from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We saw the Forth Bridge in various stages of construction and both the "Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay" and its replacement.

The talk was given by a member of the Roslin Heritage society.