demolition

This thread was created after Aaron_2016 referenced on the thread Titanic: The New Evidence highlighted the recent and bizarre trend in Belfast to demolish buildings of immense historic importance to the Harland & Wolff Shipyard and Titanic in general. Houses / offices that were used by H&W...

Here is a link from my New York local paper detailing the recent demise-by-arson of Briarcliff Lodge, Mrs. White's 1912 'country' residence: http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/082104/b01p21briarlodge.html The deteriorating ruins of the former grand structure were a great place to walk...

...unless you have $5000 to spare. Apparently Charlotte Cardeza used to go there with her husband before their divorce. The house is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of Charlotte's ex-husband's baby too! http://www.news-record.com/news/local/jim_111703.htm Cheers, Boz

During the BTS convention in April, a small group of us tried to get in the Southampton dock area to view the site that the Titanic departed from. To our amazement, we were not let in (perhaps because we were foreigners?), being told that since the World Trade Center episode, no visitors are...

This is the loympic making her last voyage. She is being tugged to inverkeithing to be finally demolished and made into knives and razor blades. I found this picture and thought it would be a good addition to the threads that have been going up. Greg, tell me if you have this one in your...

I hear from a friend of mine in Northern Ireland that there has been extensive demolition going on in Queen's Island, Titanic's birthplace. Many buildings seen in photos taken during Titanic's construction that have stood there at least since 1908 have been flattened in the last few weeks. The...