BY JACK KOPSTEIN Introduction Countless books and articles have been written about one of the greatest maritime disasters in world history, the sinking of the Titanic on the evening of 15 April 1912. The White Star Line ship struck an iceberg and sank on it’s maiden voyage from Southampton to New York with a loss of two-thirds of the more than 2,200 people aboard, claiming …
Location: 67-75 Albert Rd, Colne, BB8 0BP, United Kingdom Almost two weeks after the Titanic disaster, Wallace Hartley’s body was recovered from the icy North Atlantic, still wearing his bandsman’s uniform, and with his music box and violin case reputedly strapped to his body. Wallace Hartley’s body arrived back in England at Liverpool on the 12th May, aboard the White Star liner Arabic. …
Wallace Henry Hartley was born on 2nd June 1878, in Colne, East Lancashire. His parents Albion and Elizabeth Hartley were both employed in the local textile trade, which at the time produced cotton for export around the world. Wallace was the younger brother to Mary Ellen, who had been born the previous year. When Wallace …
Titanic’s popular and well-respected bandleader, Wallace Hartley, was no stranger to the oceans, or the big liners that crossed them, having previously been the bandleader on the rival Cunard line’s quadruple-funneled sister ships Lusitania and Mauretania, but the lure of playing on the biggest and most decadent ship in the world, and playing to the richest and …