Wallace Hartley

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	WALLACE HARTLEY'S DRESSING WATCH The four-funneled liner on the fob is the Mauretania....
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	WALLACE HENRY HARTLEY'S GRAVE Wallace Hartley's Grave...
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk	MADNESS STAR SUGGS COMES TO COLNE TO RESEARCH TITANIC BAND LEADER WALLACE HARTLEY MADNESS frontman Suggs toured East Lancashire in the search of its Titanic legacy. He stopped off at Blackburn train station before boarding the train to Colne on his voyage of discovery yesterday. Along with the production team from UKTV, he filmed near The Crown pub, at Colne Cemetery and at the statue of Wallace Henry Hartley who famously led a band as RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. ...	3rd November 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
Burnley Express	WALLACE HARTLEY AND THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC Welcome to all our readers to our very first column of 2011 and here we present an iconic image of what is the most famouse sea-faring vessel of all time....	11th January 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
Lancashire Telegraph	TITANIC BANDMASTER'S VIOLIN MAY BE SOLD Peter Magill Tests are being carried out on a violin thought to have belonged to Wallace Hartley, who famously played on as the White Star Liner sank in April 1912. And if the instrument turns out to be genuine experts believe it could break the £100,000 record for an artefact from the wreck. ...	2nd April 2011
	WHITE STAR LINER ARABIC Returned Hartley's body in Great Britain...	1915
	MAURETANIA PRIVATE PICTURE, 1908 Roger Bricoux, Wallace Hartley, Theodore Brailey and Captain Rostron are four of the many names that link the Titanic tragedy and the Cunarder Mauretania...	24th July 1908
The Times	FUNERAL OF THE TITANIC'S BANDMASTER The funeral of Mr Wallace Hartley, the bandmaster of the Titanic, took place on Saturday at Colne Cemetery. Thousands of visitors from all parts of the surrounding country were present. The funeral was attended by the Mayor and members of...	20th May 1912
dailymail.co.uk	THEY’RE EVEN SELLING THE DECKCHAIRS! EVERYONE’S CASHING IN ON 100TH ANNIVERSARY A deckchair that graced the decks of the Titanic is expected to fetch between £62,000 to £125,000 when it goes on sale. The chair - one of seven known to exist, will be auctioned along with other lots from the ill-fated ship in the approach to the 100th Anniversary of the sinking ship. Other memorabilia available includes a letter from the ship's British orchestra leader Wallace Hartley, a rare pay slip from a crewman for his six days of service and a gold locket. The deck chair is expected to fetch between £62,000 to £125,000 when it goes on sale Hartley whose orchestra ‘played on’ whilst going down with the ship, penned the two-page letter, written on ‘Titanic’ letterhead to his parents on his first day on board. The letter dated April 10, 1912 reads: 'Just a line to say we have got away all right. It’s been a bit of a rush but I am just getting a little settled....	29th March 2012
	VIOLIN PLAYED AS TITANIC SUNK IN 1912 FINALLY DISCOVERED! A new book to be published this week, The Band that Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic by Steve Turner, claims that the violin which band leader Wallace Hartley played as the Titanic sank in April 1912 survived, and may be offered for sale at the time of next year's centenary....	28th March 2011
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
Liverpool Daily Post	ST LUKE'S CHURCH HOSTS SPECIAL TITANIC FILM SCREENING A FAMOUS feature film about the tragic liner Titanic will get an outdoor screening at one of Liverpool's landmark buildings on Saturday evening.There will be free entry to the acclaimed 1958 film, A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More, at St Luke's Church, Leece Street, at 8pm. A young string quartet will perform some of Titanic's band repertoire played while the ship sank. Titanic's band leader was former Liverpool Philharmonic musician Wallace Hartley....	11th April 2009
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk	PRECINCT HONOUR FOR COLNE'S TITANIC HERO - LANCASHIRE TELEGRAPH COLNE Precinct could be renamed in honour of the town’s most famous son to mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. Talks are taking place to name the town centre shopping arcade after bandmaster Wallace Hartley, who famously lead the band as the liner sank after hitting an iceberg. His body was recovered two weeks after the ship sank, still fully dressed in his bandmaster uniform, and returned to Colne where a huge procession followed his body to its burial on May 18 1912. ...	12th December 2011
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk	COLNE TITANIC MUSUEM WANTS TO ATTRACT 100000 VISITORS A NEW museum commemorating the RMS Titanic is hoping to attract around 100,000 visitors in the run up to the centenary of when the ship sank. Maritime enthusiast Nigel Hampson, 42, has brought the Titanic and her maiden voyage to life as he opened the Titanic in Lancashire Museum, in the old Colne Grammar School, off Albert Road, Colne on Wednesday. Nigel, of Humphrey Street, Brierfield is hoping to attract visitors from around the world with his display remembering the 71 Lancashire people who were on board the doomed vessel - including Wallace Hartley, the ship’s famous band leader from Colne. ...	14th August 2011
New York Times	BETWEEN SIPS OF TEA Lady Duff-Gordon is one of the English titled women who are "in trade," as it is termed in England. She started a dress-making establishment some years since in London, and, having energy and taste, it has proved most successful. She is a Canadian...	11th December 1904
New York Times	SOCIETY---HOME AND ABROAD Personal and Otherwise --- Miss Esmé Wallace, who is to marry Viscount Tiverton, son of the Earl of Halsbury, is a daughter of Lady Duff-Gordon by her first husband, and is a niece of Eleanor Glyn, the novelist. Her mother marrie...	4th August 1907
	MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND Millar, Kate Breingan, sister; Millar, Mary Hartley, sister. Millar, William, brother. McDougall, Lillian, fiancee. All class C dependants. Assistant Electrician. ...	March 1913
Staffordshire Advertiser	STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Mr. Leonard Hodgkinson, the fourth senior engineer, was a Stoke man, and has many relatives and friends in the district. As a boy he received his education at St. Thomas's School, Stoke. He served an apprenticeship with Messrs. Hartley and Arnoux, wh...	20th April 1912
The Violinist	THE ORCHESTRA ON THE TITANIC A review of Hume by people who knew him...	1912
	CHICAGOANS SEEK SURVIVORS At the local White Star office inquiries were made today for Katherine McCarthy by her brother, John McCarthy, 4634 Wallace street, who is certain she was a passenger on the Titanic and was coming to Chicago. Information regarding Nora Cummin...	19th April 1912
	INFORMATION FROM THE WILLIAM SALT LIBRARY, STAFFORD Hodgkinson, Leonard. Engineer. Stoke man educated at St. Thomas's School, Stoke. With White Star for several years. WAS forty-six years of age and his birthplace Liverpool. His apprenticeship was served with Messrs. Hartley, Armour and Fanning...
Titanic Review	THE WATCH THAT ENDS THE NIGHT: VOICES FROM THE TITANIC Randy Bryan Bigham Allan Wolf lyricizes the Titanic in a fact-based, poignant evocation of the 100 year old tragedy...	29th December 2011
New York Times	SIR COSMO DUFF-GORDON Survivor of Titanic Disaster Dies in London at Age of 68 --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 20---Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, survivor of the Titanic disaster of 1912, died in London today at the age of 6...	21st April 1931
Denver Post	LADY DUFF-GORDON AND HUSBAND AMONG THOSE ON TITANIC New York, April 17--When the first passenger list of the Titanic was published in Monday's papers there was much curiosity over the identity of "Mr. and Mrs. Morgan," who were named as among those on board. The reporters on duty at the offices of the...	17th April 1912
	SEVENTY-FIVE REGISTERED LETTERS WERE SENT (FROM NORWAY) WITH THE TITANIC IN 1912 Arne Mjaland Top row 5th from left: Jorgen Birkesfol who sent a registered letter with Titanic...	26th August 1998
The New York Times	SINKING SHIP'S BAND CHOSE FITTING HYMN "Hold Me Up in Mighty Waters," a Suggestive Line in "Autumn" WERE NOTED MUSICIANS Friends of the Titanic's Bandmaster Say He Believed In Music's Power t...	21st April 1912
Titanic Research	TITANIC SONGBOOK Monica Hall Most people, when thinking about music on the Titanic, immediately recall Nearer My God to Thee, which was allegedly played on deck by Wallace Hartley and his band as the great ship sank. We do not really know if this is...	16th April 2012
New York Times	HOPE HAMPTON KEPT HER WEDDING SECRET Film Star Married Jules E. Brulatour, Her Manager, Aug. 22---His Third Marriage --- To the surprise of their friends it became known yesterday that Hope Hampton, the motion picture actress who was last seen on the screen in "The Gold Di...	8th November 1923
New York Sun	NOTED STYLIST DIES IN LONDON Lady Duff Gordon Designed Fashions for Royalty...	22nd April 1935
Daily Sketch	DEATH OF LUCILE Page 1 Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, famous as "Lucile," the fashion expert whose articles in the Daily Sketch were for years a notable and most popular feature has died in Putney. Her husband Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, Bt., died in April four y...	22nd April 1935
New York Times	TO UNVEIL STRAUS FOUNTAIN Dedication of Memorial to Philanthropist and His Wife Tomorrow --- The Isidor and Ida Straus Memorial in Straus Park will be dedicated tomorrow afternoon with impressive ceremonies. The beautiful granite and bronze fountain, which form...	14th April 1915
	VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JOHN WESLEY WOODWARD Named on the Musicians Memorial at the Old Library site, London Road, Southampton. also named on the St Marys Church Musicians Memorial, St Marys, Southampton. also he is mentioned on a plaque in the lobby of the Boston ...
Titanic Research	RMS TITANIC: THE FUNERALS, MEMORIALS AND LEGACY OF THE LOST PASSENGERS AND HER CREW Brandon C. Holm Titanic, a word that conveys a history and numerous amounts of thoughts, ideas. The American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition defines titanic as, “of enormous scope, power, or influence.”1 The origin of the word ...	9th March 2007
	JOHN FREDERICK PRESTON CLARKE Brian J. Ticehurst Clarke, John Frederick Preston. 22 Tunstall Street, Smithdown Road, Liverpool. Orchestra (Bass). (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) ...
New York Times	FUNERAL OF ISIDOR STRAUS The funeral of Isidor Straus, who died in the wreck of the Titanic, was held at noon yesterday at the family residence, an old frame house at 105th Street and Broadway, which is one of the landmarks of early New York. In order to avoid a great outpou...	9th May 1912
New York Times	LADY DUFF GORDON, STYLE EXPERT, DIES Pioneer in Bringing Freedom to Women's Fashions Headed Chain of Garment Shops --- COINED DRESS TERM 'CHIC' --- First Split Skirt and Manikin Show Credited to Her---She Had Stores in Three Countries --- Wirele...	22nd April 1935
	HOLD FAMILY INFORMATION In this article, to avoid confusion, the Stephen Hold lost on Titanic is referred to as Stephen jnr and his father as Stephen snr. Porthoustock in the parish of St Keverne is a small fishing village located close to the southern tip of...
Titanic Review	CARPATHIA AND THE TITANIC: RESCUE AT SEA Mike Poirier Michael Poirier reviews one of the few books to focus on the Titanic's rescue ship, the RMS Carpathia....	23rd May 2012