Just adressing Richard's question when he asked whether all not the first-class corrdiors decor were the same on each deck.
The
B-deck and
C-deck suite's corridors ( the ones that ran between boiling casing two and past boiler casing three,)decor would of been the most ornate as seen in Mark's qoute.
There has been a little bit of debate whether a runner carpet were down those corrdiors, but as I have been told from others, the Olympic & Titanic were one of the first-ships to ever linoleum tiles. Thomas Andrews had decided to put these tiles down as they cleaner to clean, and hopefully softer on the feet. Viloet Jessop though said in her book that they were really tough on her feet on the Olympic, though she does not recall anything about the corridors on the Titanic. So there could of been a chance that a runner may of been placed down the corridors of the B &
C-deck suites but it is open to debate. A carpet runner would weare and proably need replacing as those corridors were one of the main passage routes for the passengers walking forward and aft but also it would not be so hard on the feet.
Some of this info I got was from the thread "Sateroom Styles" that Mark mentioned above.
A very clear image posted by Brian Hawley (the thread: Olympic Ballroom?) of a forward stateroom between A to E decks shows the mirror of the dresser reflecting the corridor behind the camera that took the photo. The wall has the same simple grove work detail panelling as the stateroom. There are no handrails and the floor looks like it is rubber tiled, but I can not determine if there is any pattern on it, its to dark.
So from this, the corrdiors forward on A- to
E-decks had very simple corridors that featured same type of decoration found in the second and third-class corridors, while the
B-deck and C-deck corridors running amidships were more ornate compared to its counterparts.
Hope this information helps you.
All the best,
Nigel
