What’s On
Tuesday 9th December 2025
Wickham Community Centre
Mill Lane, Wickham PO17 5AL
A Magic Lantern Show: Victorian Humour
By Alan Brindle
Alan’s show will feature lantern slides from the early Victorian period to 1880. All of the slides in the show were professionally produced and represented cutting edge technology in that period. These spectacular shows provided exciting entertainment long before the birth of the cinema. We will revisit a time when magic lantern slides thrilled and amazed their audiences and were fun!! The young loved the jokes played by little rascals and the tricks done by monkeys and other such animals. The old loved the morals and philosophy behind the stories. This show includes the most famous moving slide ever produced, The Rat Swallower. Be warned!! Some of these Victorian humour slides are not what you would call politically correct nowadays but they were totally acceptable in this bygone era.
Please note this meeting is the SECOND Tuesday of the month.
