| Wiltshire Times | TITANIC BAG HANDED BACK A mailbag from the Titanic belonging to last living survivor Millvina Dean sold for £2,000 in Devizes on Saturday - before the winning bidder handed it straight back to her. London-based advertising agency director Trevor Beattie bid nearly £2,000 for the bag and then gave it back to 97-year-old Miss Dean, who sold the bag and other items at Aldridge's sale of Titanic memorabilia to pay for her care at a residential home in Southampton. The last survivor of the Titanic disaster, she was a babe in arms when she and her mother left the stricken liner in the early hours of April 15 1912. ... |
25th April 2009 | |||
| Wiltshire Times | GOOD NEWS FOR BRADFORDIANS A telegram from Bradford-on-Avon states that news has been received there that Mrs. Leather, a stewardess on the Titanic, and a sister of Mrs. Hickley, wife of Mr. Hickley, of the Trowbridge Road, has been saved.... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Wiltshire Times | TITANIC WIRELESS OPERATOR Son of Trowbridgian: Relatives in the Town The man who sent the fateful SOS wireless appeal for assistance - the Marconi Operator aboard the Titanic - is Mr. John George Phillips, son of Mr. G. A. Phillips, of Francombe, near Godalming... |
20th April 1912 | |||