Shipping News
Join the SHIPPING Forum -
CLICK HERE
Click
HERE to download a ‘cut away’ graphic of Cunarder Queen Victoria (pdf)
New home for memorial to Titanic’s postal staff
A MEMORIAL to the five postal workers who drowned in the Titanic disaster is to be given a new home in Southampton's Civic Centre.
The future of the monument had been in doubt amidst the relocation of Southampton's flagship High Street Post Office to WH Smith in Above Bar.
The Titanic Postal Workers' Memorial is part of the city's heritage trail and there were fears it could fall into the hands of collectors willing to pay tens of thousands of pounds.
City council bosses hatched a plan to keep the memorial in the city by making it a permanent attraction outside the council chamber in the Civic Centre.
Planning permission will have to be granted before the memorial can be installed.
The plaque was dedicated to Titanic postal workers - two Englishmen and three Americans - who desperately tried to haul 200 sacks of registered mail to safety on the upper decks.
It was made from a spare Titanic propeller donated by shipbuilder Harland and Wolff.
After the sinking, a Titanic survivor said: "I urged them to leave their work. They shook their heads and continued. It might have been an inrush of water later that cut off their escape, or it may have been the explosion. I saw them no more."
9:25am Friday 25th April 2008
Print 
Email this 
CommentPosted by: hmm on 9:49am Fri 25 Apr 08
"City council bosses hatched a plan"
Hatched a plan?
"City council bosses hatched a plan"
Hatched a plan?
Posted by: George on 10:46am Fri 25 Apr 08
[quote][bold]hmm[/bold] wrote:
"City council bosses hatched a plan" Hatched a plan?[/quote] Erm, you don't get out much do you, if you don't know what a well known phrase like that means.
hmm wrote:
"City council bosses hatched a plan" Hatched a plan?
Erm, you don't get out much do you, if you don't know what a well known phrase like that means.
Posted by: Secret Squirrel on 12:33pm Fri 25 Apr 08
[quote][bold]hmm[/bold] wrote:
"City council bosses hatched a plan" Hatched a plan?[/quote] Like you I wondered why the Council bosses need to hatch a plan. Surely they just needed to ask the owner for permission to relocate the memorial?
Hatching a plan sounds like they involved MI5. Perhaps they could hatch a plan for a new ice rink?
hmm wrote:
"City council bosses hatched a plan" Hatched a plan?
Like you I wondered why the Council bosses need to hatch a plan. Surely they just needed to ask the owner for permission to relocate the memorial?
Hatching a plan sounds like they involved MI5. Perhaps they could hatch a plan for a new ice rink?
What are these links for?
If you liked this article and would like to share it with others on the web who might be searching for good content we've made it easy for you to do it.
At the bottom of all articles, you'll see links to six sites. These sites - commonly called 'social bookmark' or 'social news' sites - have large communities of web users who share and rate interesting, useful and fun things on the web.
Clicking the links will automatically add the address of the story you are reading to one of these sites, letting you share it with others. Each site will ask you to register to share stories. Registration is free and once a member, you can store, recommend and search for stories that interest you.
More on Digg
More on del.icio.us
More on Furl
More on reddit
More on NowPublic/
More on Yahoo!
