- COBWEBS AND THE EXHIBITIONS -



April 13th...Up nice and early for breakfast, ordered a taxi to take us to "COBWEBS" to see Peter Boyd-Smith and to purchase some items of interest..I found some old postcards of Isle of Man Steam Packet vessels which can go to help me in another project on which I am working at present.


Photo by Ian Huntly


Photo by Ian Huntly

Above is a porthole from the "Lusitania" and some White Star Line crockery.


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We walked across town, through the Friday Market at the Bargate, taking in a visit to the main Post Office, in which is a plaque made from a piece of a reserve bronze Titanic propellor and dedicated to the postal workers who lost their lives in the sinking.


Photo by Ian Huntly

We then walked to the Maritime Museum to see the "Titanic Exhibition" which seemed well attended. The Titanic display had just opened after seven weeks of preparation.


Photo by Ian Huntly

Feeling hungry, we taxied back to the hotel for lunch and we had it outside on the "promenade deck".


Photo by Ian Huntly

In the afternoon the group took yet another taxi to meet up with more Titanic buffs to walk round the gravesites. Two walks were taken and the party caught the famous "No.46" open topped double decker bus back to the Civic Centre. The bus has been drafted in to take people to the cemetary on an hourly basis.


Photo by John Creamer




Photo by Maria Storey

In the evening we went to the "Cowherds" by taxi for dinner. We ordered at the bar and were given a wooden spoon with a number on it so that the pub staff could find us..


Photo by Ian Huntly

This is the pub/restaurant that was frequented by Captain E J Smith before his last voyage. The food was good and we had good quantities..

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