{"id":165,"date":"2016-10-22T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T10:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2018-05-01T14:48:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T14:48:53","slug":"a-tragic-reminder-of-the-unsinkable-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/2016\/10\/22\/a-tragic-reminder-of-the-unsinkable-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tragic Reminder of the Unsinkable Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed Bristow shares an unexpected trace of the Titanic in an unlikely collection.<\/p>\n

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I was five years old when the wreck of the Titanic was found in 1985; it had been sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic for 73 years by that point. I was having difficulty learning to read at Primary School a couple of years later, so my Mum decided to buy me a book written about the discovery by Dr Robert Ballard, who had headed up the Franco-American team that discovered the ship. I was fascinated and read it from cover to cover, the first time I had ever managed the feat, and a vague interest has stayed with me ever since.<\/p>\n

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A benefit concert<\/h2>\n

Sometimes documents crop up in the most unexpected places, and a good example of this is within the Crichel Estate archive. The collection includes a variety of bound volumes that were used as combination visitors’ books, scrap books and sketch books, holding a wealth of famous individuals’ signatures as well as cuttings and drawings. One of the books\u00a0(reference D-CRI\/H\/5\/1\/1)\u00a0holds a programme for a benefit concert performed in May 1912 to aid survivors of the Titanic. It was the third time I glanced at it that I noticed the printing in the top of the front page was much better quality embossed print. Then I found that the paper has a White Star Line watermark; the programme was overprinted onto notepaper actually made for the Titanic.<\/p>\n

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Ed Bristow shares an unexpected trace of the Titanic in an unlikely collection. I was five years old when the wreck of the Titanic was found in 1985; it had been sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic for 73 years by that point. I was having difficulty learning to read at Primary School a… Read more A Tragic Reminder of the Unsinkable Ship<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[26],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}