RMS Titanic Disaster Centenary - 15 April 2012

jdbythesea · Post by **jdbythesea** » Tue 27 Mar, 2012 5:48 pm

Upon checking further I have discovered;1) Herbert Klein was a barber working on the Titanic and he and his family resided at Northfield Square in Leeds.2)Father TRD Byles was the son of Revd. AH Byles who was the first pastor at Headingley Hill Congregational Church.3) Wallace Hartley (shown as a 2nd class passenger on the manifest) was a member of the Savage Club in Leeds.4) G Jacob was a 19 year old Able Seaman who was aboard The Californian. That ship was alleged to have picked up the Mayday call but the captain took no action. G Jacob's "fame" seems, therefore, to be by association only. JD

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 27 Mar, 2012 7:40 pm

Jd - none taken of course - I was sure this question had been asked before here but searching to see if there was anything of interest to re-post - I can't find anything. Must have been something similar.

Dalehelms · Post by **Dalehelms** » Tue 27 Mar, 2012 11:26 pm

Yesterday, on the leedsliveitloveit web site, there was an article about an event at Jigsaw in Leeds. It was previously Collinsons Restaurant where Wallace Hartley worked. They are having some sort of Titanic themed celebration. I don't know how to post the link, but hopefully some good soul will do it for me. If you go onto the resident's page it is on page 1 of News.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Tue 27 Mar, 2012 11:32 pm

Dalehelms wrote: Yesterday, on the leedsliveitloveit web site, there was an article about an event at Jigsaw in Leeds. It was previously Collinsons Restaurant where Wallace Hartley worked. They are having some sort of Titanic themed celebration. I don't know how to post the link, but hopefully some good soul will do it for me. If you go onto the resident's page it is on page 1 of News. This link should bring the interesting article up. http://www.leedsliveitloveit.com/visito ... -at-jigsaw

Si · Post by Si » Wed 28 Mar, 2012 9:29 am

jdbythesea wrote: Upon checking further I have discovered;Wallace Hartley (shown as a 2nd class passenger on the manifest) was a member of the Savage Club in Leeds.G Jacob was a 19 year old Able Seaman who was aboard The Californian. That ship was alleged to have picked up the Mayday call but the captain took no action. G Jacob's "fame" seems, therefore, to be by association only. JD Hartley (and his band) travelled second class as part of the deal between his agent and the White Star Line. PS Off topic, but contrary to the popular myth, Titanic was not the first ship to use the new distress call SOS (which doesn't stand for Save Our Souls, but was chosen for ease of use in Morse code ... --- ...) as it had been established several years earlier. The wireless operators interspersed it with the older distress call CQD (Seek You - Danger.)PPS Just out of interest, the RMS title of Titanic stands for Royal Mail Ship, and as such, it flew the Blue Ensign from it's stern. Mail ships originally carried passengers as a side line.

Dalehelms · Post by **Dalehelms** » Wed 28 Mar, 2012 11:52 am

Thank you, Leodian, for attaching the link.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Wed 28 Mar, 2012 7:30 pm

Dalehelms wrote: Thank you, Leodian, for attaching the link. Cheers Dalehelms.It would be interesting to see what original features remain at Jigsaw (and other stores in the Victoria Quarter area) but it is unlikely that I will be going to the tea party. I've never been in any of the stores since the area became Victoria Quarter and I have no recollection of ever going in any even when it was still a road (Queen Victoria Street, a name it still has as seen in the photo I took on September 6 2011).

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Thu 29 Mar, 2012 1:30 pm

On pages 38-40 of April 2012 issue of The Yorkshire Dalesman there is an article 'Titanic's tragic hero' that is about Wallace Henry Hartley who has several mentions in this thread.