Historical information

This album depicts events, mostly the many picnics organised with the help of the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild from 1905 to 1910.

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Significance

This album is significant as it depicts all the work of Reverend Alfred Gurney Goldsmith.
According to an article it seems Mrs Goldsmith was often the photographer.
The first photographs shows the picnic in Graylings where the reverend invited Ethel Godfrey to create the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild.
Gurney Goldsmith was the first reverend to document the life of the Mission using photography, as a marketing tool. Some of the photographs were published in the Jottings. And probably sent to the Head Office on London.
It is also interesting as the photographs shows the life of seamen on board their ship, their clothing etc.