The Vital Spark
by James Canning
Title
The Vital Spark
Artist
James Canning
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Photograph - Photography
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The Vital Spark is a fictional Clyde puffer, created by Scottish writer Neil Munro. Puffers seem to have been regarded fondly even before Munro began publishing his short stories in the Glasgow Evening News in 1905. This may not be surprising, for these small steamboats were then providing a vital supply link around the west coast and Hebrides islands of Scotland. The charming rascality of the stories went well beyond the reality of a commercial shipping business, but they brought widespread fame. They appeared in the newspaper over 20 years, were collected in book form by 1931, inspired the 1953 film The Maggie, and came out as three popular television series, dating from 1959 to 1995.
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October 22nd, 2018
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