Captain Smith's Fellow Travellers - and other local connections to the Titanic
25 Mar 12
Talk by Gary Cooper, author of “Titanic Captain: The Life of Edward John Smith”.
Gladstone Pottery Museum. Free
Hanley born Captain E J Smith is Stoke-on-Trent’s most famous link with the Titanic disaster of 1912, but there were other less well known people aboard the ship with a strong local connection. Hear the story of Leonard Hodgkinson the ship’s engineer from Stoke; of passenger William Angle, a Minton’s tile fixer from Newcastle-under-Lyme; and Father Thomas Byles, a Catholic priest who spent part of his youth in the area and who is said to have taken over a hundred confessions before the ship foundered.
