Reply With QuoteA sad day - looking for my copy of A Night to Remember (1958) now...the best cinema telling of the remarkable story of the Titanic. In my top 5 films.
Last Titanic survivor dies in England: BBC - Yahoo! News UK
She lived in a Home in Hedge End, east of Southampton. She was frequently on local TV.
RIP.
A sad day - looking for my copy of A Night to Remember (1958) now...the best cinema telling of the remarkable story of the Titanic. In my top 5 films.
Moving story. Thanks
it's very sad that she had to sell her mementos from the ill fated liner to pay her nursing home bills-r.i.p.
Very sad news. I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that she was a visitor to the set at Pinewood in late 1957 / early 1958, while A Night To Remember was being filmed. She would have been about 45 years old at that time. It's also a scandal that she had to sell all her belongings to make ends meet while at the same time, certain M.P.s were fleecing the taxpayer of a fortune. It just goes to show that there is plenty of money in this country, but the wrong people are getting it.
Correction: she was finally in a Home in Netley Marsh, which is just up the road from here, so edge of the New Forest. She was always in the local DAILY ECHO because of her connection. It was so sad that she had to sell in order to pay her fees. I gather that she had her opinions about the post-discovery by Mr Ballard and the taking of items etc from the wreck as she said that it was her father's grave.
I thought that Bob Ballard only took photos and left a marker plate there. It was the later French team that started bringing up artefacts and since then a few others have done it as wellname='Automotivehistorian']Correction: she was finally in a Home in Netley Marsh, which is just up the road from here, so edge of the New Forest. She was always in the local DAILY ECHO because of her connection. It was so sad that she had to sell in order to pay her fees. I gather that she had her opinions about the post-discovery by Mr Ballard and the taking of items etc from the wreck as she said that it was her father's grave.
Steve
Correction: she was finally in a Home in Netley Marsh, which is just up the road from here, so edge of the New Forest
Actually, according to our corner shop, she lived in the Home about 200 yards away on the A35 in Ashurst! The DAILY ECHO has her passing on the front cover. And yes, Bob ballard placed a plaque and deliberately did not do anything to disturb. It was the later operations that undertook recovery.
I heard a scientist on a television documentary a while back say that there are no human remains down there...not even bones. They would have been corroded away to nothing decades ago. So I don't know if it's technically true that the site of the wreck could be classed as a grave...although many died there 97 years ago.
name='darrenburnfan']I heard a scientist on a television documentary a while back say that there are no human remains down there...not even bones. They would have been corroded away to nothing decades ago. So I don't know if it's technically true that the site of the wreck could be classed as a grave...although many died there 97 years ago.
Using that criterion most of the 'graves' in graveyards are no longer 'graves'
Depends on one's beliefs I suppose (leaving legalities aside).
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