Titanic Exhibition Success

RAYLEIGH Town Museum welcomed a titanic number of visitors.

A record-breaking 500 people, including 110 children, filed through the museum’s doors over the weekend of April 13 and 14, in a special exhibition to commemorate the date the famous ocean liner hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean, back in 1912.

The display featured an exhibition of Titanic-related items and the chance to find out about the several Essex residents who perished on or survived the sinking of the Titanic.

The display was organised by museum Chairman Mike Davies, who has spent decades researching the famous wreck, and who was one of the early members of the British Titanic Society.

Over the years Mr Davies has attended a number of these conventions and one, held in Southampton in 1989, saw him get to meet three survivors of the tragedy – including Eva Hart – a picture of which meeting was on display at the museum.

Another interesting photo that can be seen at the exhibition shows a dramatic Titanic ‘re-enactment’ featuring a lifeboat launched off Southend Pier.

The MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, Mark Francois, also attended the exhibition, describing the section of the exhibition on the Essex connection the wreck to be “particularly poignant.”

Picture: Mike Davies with a young visitor.

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