Bandleader

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Burnley and Pendle Citizen	TITANIC'S COLNE BANDLEADER TO BE HONOURED ON CENTENARY OF DEATH A SPECIAL piece of music is to be composed to mark the centenary of the death of one of Colnes most famous sons....	23rd February 2011
Mirror.co.uk	FOUND AT LAST THE VIOLIN PLAYED BY THE TITANIC BANDMASTER AS THE SHIP WENT DOWN The missing violin played by the Titanics bandleader as the liner slowly sank could have been found 99 years on....	29th March 2011
	WALLACE HARTLEY'S DRESSING WATCH The four-funneled liner on the fob is the Mauretania....
burnleycitizen.co.uk	TITANIC MEMORIES FLOWER AGAIN IN COLNE A model of the Titanic set within a floral display has been unveiled in Colne town centre. The model of the Titanic has been placed in the flower bed near the bust of the real ship's bandleader, Wallace Hartley, in Colne. ...	5th July 2011
Lancashire Telegraph	NEW COLNE PUB TO BE NAMED AFTER TITANIC HERO A NEW £1.4million pub in Colne will be named after one of the town's most famous sons. Wetherspoons has announced that its new premises will be called The Wallace Hartley after the Titanic's bandleader. Hartley, who was born in Greenfield Road, famously instr-ucted the band to continue to play as the ship started to sink after hitting an iceberg....	29th October 2008
yesweekly.com	STORIES FROM THE TITANIC Imagine, as I am now, that my name is Mr. Wallace Henry Hartley, 33, of Dewsbury, England, a violinist and bandleader. The year is 1912, and a couple days earlier I was chosen to lead the band on the brand new showpiece of the White Star cruise line: the RMS Titanic. Hartley is the name on my boarding pass, handed to me at the entrance to the new Titanic exhibition at the Greensboro Natural Science Center, which runs through Nov. 27 — everybody gets one, embossed with an actual name of one of the 1,316 passengers on board for the vessel’s maiden voyage....	3rd August 2011
examiner.co.uk	HUDDERSFIELD TITANIC BAND LEADER TO FEATURE IN NEW SHOW BY DOWNTON ABBEY ... - HUDDERSFIELD EXAMINER People in Huddersfield recall the heroism of Titanic bandleader Wallace Hartley. Hartley was born and raised in Colne, Lancashire, and initially made his living playing in café orchestras across Yorkshire. He moved with his family to Dewsbury and then Almondbury in 1893 and joined Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra, in which he played until 1901 when he moved to another orchestra in Bridlington. ...	28th December 2011