0:00:02 > 0:00:04A century after it sank, it still fascinates us.
0:00:04 > 0:00:06HORN BLARES
0:00:06 > 0:00:08Titanic.
0:00:08 > 0:00:14Gigantic, extravagant, doomed,
0:00:14 > 0:00:16and 100 years later,
0:00:16 > 0:00:19the ship that has become a legend.
0:00:19 > 0:00:20As she headed out to sea,
0:00:20 > 0:00:24she carried over 2,200 passengers and crew.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27The rich, the poor and everything in between.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30And it's their stories I want to discover.
0:00:30 > 0:00:36When Titanic hit an iceberg 1,500 men, women and children died.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40But the human cost was counted not just at sea
0:00:40 > 0:00:46but on land, where the impact of the tragedy lasted for generations.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50That is why, to this day, Titanic touches us all.
0:00:56 > 0:01:01My Titanic story began when I was just 16, back in 1959.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04Now, you might think of me as the dance judge off Strictly.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07The spins were fantastic.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09But before all that,
0:01:09 > 0:01:12I was a welder for Harland & Wolff down at the docks.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15They were the company that built Titanic, here in Belfast.
0:01:15 > 0:01:20I worked for them 50 years later in London.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23I used to weld all day, get home, scrub myself up
0:01:23 > 0:01:25and dance all night.
0:01:25 > 0:01:26Great times.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30But now, I want to meet others with a connection,
0:01:30 > 0:01:35to discover how Titanic affected some people's lives forever.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37He would wake up screaming in the middle of the night saying
0:01:37 > 0:01:39that all he could hear were the screams in the water.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42As the ship went down, they sacked the lot of them.
0:01:42 > 0:01:47He just couldn't bear the thought of Mary and her unborn child
0:01:47 > 0:01:48and he slammed the door in her face.
0:01:48 > 0:01:52I want find out why, in the 21st century, this 100-year-old story
0:01:52 > 0:01:55still means so much to us.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00In this programme,
0:02:00 > 0:02:06I'm going to visit the places left scarred by the mighty ship and the story begins in Belfast.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09This was the city that built her and it's the place where,
0:02:09 > 0:02:11before she even hit the water,
0:02:11 > 0:02:16Titanic claimed the lives of her very first victims.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Belfast is steeped in the history of shipbuilding.
0:02:19 > 0:02:24Even today, you can't escape the presence of the mighty Titanic.
0:02:24 > 0:02:25I hope you like the murals.
0:02:25 > 0:02:29I was part and parcel of designing them and getting them put up there.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31I've just been looking at it and admiring it.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35You may think the Titanic isn't positive, but it is from our perspective and community.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39- It is.- That's the most famous ship in the world and it was built here.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41And it was sunk by an Englishman.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45- Built by the Irish and sunk by the English.- That's what we always say.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47- Bye.- Cheerio.- All the best.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50What a bit of luck.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Now, there you go.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56There I am looking at it, up comes a guy in a car,
0:02:56 > 0:03:00right out of the blue, and he built this.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Titanic's legacy is all over the city.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06She was built by Harland & Wolff.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Today, their cranes still dominate the Belfast skyline.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12In the 1900s, it was the largest shipyard in the world,
0:03:12 > 0:03:15sending ships across the globe.
0:03:15 > 0:03:21Then in 1909, the world's biggest shipbuilder began to build
0:03:21 > 0:03:23the world's biggest ship.
0:03:23 > 0:03:29On this very slipway, 15,000 men took three years to build her
0:03:29 > 0:03:33and Titanic's keel stretched from here all the way to the water.
0:03:35 > 0:03:41At 880 feet she would be the longest ship the world had ever seen.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45And at 46,000 tons, the heaviest.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48When they decided to build Titanic, Harland & Wolff realised
0:03:48 > 0:03:51there wasn't a dry dock in the world big enough to accommodate her
0:03:51 > 0:03:53so they built one and this is it.
0:03:57 > 0:04:02Once Titanic's vast hull was afloat, it was towed into this giant dry dock
0:04:02 > 0:04:06where she fitted with only feet to spare.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10If you want to get an idea of just how giant she was
0:04:10 > 0:04:13this is the place to come.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Slowly her hull rose over the rooftops of East Belfast
0:04:18 > 0:04:22and the noise of her construction could be heard right across the city.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27When I worked in the London yard in the '60s,
0:04:27 > 0:04:31I was a welder, but that was all a long time ago now.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Now, look at that.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41That's why I gave up welding.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44Ships have been welded for around 80 years,
0:04:44 > 0:04:47but when they built Titanic they used rivets
0:04:47 > 0:04:51and riveting makes welding look like a bit of light handicraft.
0:04:51 > 0:04:55It took five men to hammer home just one rivet.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57It was a hell of a job.
0:04:59 > 0:05:04One lad, usually only a child, would heat the rivet
0:05:04 > 0:05:07in a portable furnace until it was white hot.
0:05:09 > 0:05:13Then the white hot rivet was pushed through the hole.
0:05:13 > 0:05:17Two men braced themselves against the rivet,
0:05:17 > 0:05:23while on the other side two more started to hammer with a heavy sledge.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27The hammering made the rivet expand and hold the sheets in place.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29I'll tell you what, that is hard work.
0:05:29 > 0:05:34It took us about four minutes to do just one successful rivet
0:05:34 > 0:05:39but in 1912, a riveting team could take just 20 seconds
0:05:39 > 0:05:42and there were three million rivets on Titanic.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48If I'd been welding on the Titanic, she wouldn't have sailed until 1950.
0:05:48 > 0:05:52With red hot metal, ladders and scaffolds to deal with,
0:05:52 > 0:05:56the shipyard could be a fatal place to work.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Before Titanic even touched the water
0:05:58 > 0:06:01she claimed the lives of eight men.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03There are no photographs of these workers,
0:06:03 > 0:06:07just their names recorded on death certificates.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10"Robert James Murphy, married, 49, a rivet counter.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16"Shock following compound fracture of skull
0:06:16 > 0:06:19"resulting from an accidental fall."
0:06:19 > 0:06:22This is John Kelly, 19 years old.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24"Accidentally fell off the ship."
0:06:24 > 0:06:29Samuel Joseph Scott, he's 15 years old.
0:06:29 > 0:06:34"Accidentally fell 23 feet from a ladder, died instantly."
0:06:34 > 0:06:37It really does pull at your heartstrings.
0:06:37 > 0:06:41They were just working guys who died doing their job.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44It's just tragic and it's sad.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50A century ago, deaths like these were a fact of shipbuilding
0:06:50 > 0:06:53and Harland & Wolff was no exception.
0:06:53 > 0:06:58They worked out there was one death for every 10,000 tons of ship.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01Una Reilly, from the Belfast Titanic Society,
0:07:01 > 0:07:04has found the cost of each death recorded carefully
0:07:04 > 0:07:06in the directors' records.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12You can see here they have recorded how much the compensation was.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16£795. So we're not talking megabucks here?
0:07:16 > 0:07:20No. We're not, indeed. It seemed to be a standard £100 a life.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24Here they were building the then biggest ship in the world
0:07:24 > 0:07:29and eight deaths was perhaps thought to be not too bad.
0:07:31 > 0:07:37Finally, on May 31st 1911, five giant hydraulic rams
0:07:37 > 0:07:41sent Titanic sliding down the slipway and towards the water.
0:07:41 > 0:07:46She was now the largest moving structure on Earth.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49A crowd of workers and dignitaries cheered her on.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52The launch took just 62 seconds
0:07:52 > 0:07:57but that was long enough for Titanic to claim the life of a final shipbuilder.
0:07:59 > 0:08:04"James Dobbin, married, 43 years old, shipwright."
0:08:04 > 0:08:09He was responsible for the giant chains and wooden props
0:08:09 > 0:08:12that held Titanic secure on the slipway.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17"Accidentally crushed under a piece of timber.
0:08:17 > 0:08:21"Shock and haemorrhaging followed the fracture of his pelvis."
0:08:21 > 0:08:25He was killed as Titanic made her way to the sea.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28Like the seven other dead shipbuilders,
0:08:28 > 0:08:30James gave his life to Titanic,
0:08:30 > 0:08:32but as she left Belfast lock
0:08:32 > 0:08:37they were only the first of the victims she would leave in her wake.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42As Titanic made her way to Southampton,
0:08:42 > 0:08:46her passengers made their way from all over Britain and Europe,
0:08:46 > 0:08:50excited emigrants travelling to their new lives,
0:08:50 > 0:08:53the rich and famous, who had paid fortunes
0:08:53 > 0:08:56to be the first to enjoy Titanic's luxury.
0:08:56 > 0:09:00All headed here to Southampton, where hundreds of crew were signing up to work
0:09:00 > 0:09:02on the biggest ship in the world.
0:09:02 > 0:09:07This is the dock where Titanic took on her first paying passengers.
0:09:07 > 0:09:12She filled up with coal, water and food and the crew came on board
0:09:12 > 0:09:16and about 700 of them came from right here in Southampton.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20So when news of the sinking reached the city,
0:09:20 > 0:09:22the streets were filled with dread.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26By midnight, Titanic was sinking
0:09:26 > 0:09:29but many of her crew stuck to their posts and helped passengers to safety,
0:09:29 > 0:09:35until around 2:15am, when the ship disappeared beneath the waves.
0:09:35 > 0:09:39Survival time in the freezing water was just minutes.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43Soon, three-quarters of Titanic's crew were dead.
0:09:48 > 0:09:53Anxious families gathered outside the offices of the White Star Line in Southampton
0:09:53 > 0:09:55desperate for news.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59More often than not, when the news did arrive it was bad.
0:10:00 > 0:10:05Children lost their fathers, women lost their husbands, brothers and sons.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08The whole town was in mourning.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12The community around the dock wasn't just devastated with grief,
0:10:12 > 0:10:14it also faced poverty.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17There were 880-odd crew.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23Of those, more than 600-odd were living in Southampton.
0:10:23 > 0:10:28549 of them didn't survive
0:10:28 > 0:10:32and these are the dock communities. This is the old town.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34Each of those red dots
0:10:34 > 0:10:36is a crew member who was lost.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39If you weren't directly affected
0:10:39 > 0:10:41- then you knew somebody who was. - Yeah.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43You were related to somebody who was,
0:10:43 > 0:10:46your child went to school with somebody who was.
0:10:46 > 0:10:51- Yeah.- It was something that affected every member of the community.
0:10:54 > 0:11:00The city archives hold recordings of men and women remembering the aftermath of Titanic.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04'A great hush descended on the town
0:11:04 > 0:11:08'because I don't think there was hardly a single street in Southampton
0:11:08 > 0:11:12'who hadn't lost somebody on that ship.'
0:11:14 > 0:11:17'Yeah, I remember ever so plain. This girl at school
0:11:17 > 0:11:20'used to come and say, "Are you coming down the dock gate?"
0:11:20 > 0:11:25'Me and my sister used to go down the dock gate to see if her father's name was up there.
0:11:25 > 0:11:32'Several girls at school had fathers on there, or brothers, or some relation.'
0:11:32 > 0:11:36When you listen to these people reminiscing about their childhood,
0:11:36 > 0:11:40it's very, very poignant,
0:11:40 > 0:11:44and it just takes you back, somehow, 100 years.
0:11:44 > 0:11:49Nowhere was Titanic's death toll felt more sharply
0:11:49 > 0:11:52than on the streets of Southampton.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56More victims came from here than anywhere else in the world.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58A charity was set up for victims' families
0:11:58 > 0:12:02and donations flooded in from across Southampton.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06There were enormous efforts made.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10Practically every theatre had a concert or a benefit.
0:12:10 > 0:12:15Practically any event that was planned to be happening
0:12:15 > 0:12:17- suddenly became an opportunity to collect.- Right.
0:12:17 > 0:12:22And as a result, they managed to raise 41,000,
0:12:22 > 0:12:26- just in Southampton, for the fund, and that was a lot of money for the time.- Certainly.
0:12:26 > 0:12:31Memorials to Southampton's Titanic dead are dotted around the city.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Some crew did survive
0:12:33 > 0:12:36and found it impossible to put Titanic behind them.
0:12:36 > 0:12:41Mandy Reeves' great-great-grandfather was a boot steward on board.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45He lived, but was left traumatised.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47He suffered terrible sleep sweats
0:12:47 > 0:12:51and he would wake up screaming in the middle of the night,
0:12:51 > 0:12:53saying that all he could hear were the screams in the water.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55He felt guilty to be alive.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58Philip Littlejohn's grandfather, Alexander,
0:12:58 > 0:13:02was a first-class steward from Southampton.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06The months following the disaster were torture.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08So your grandfather did survive?
0:13:08 > 0:13:14Yes, he survived the sinking but the effects on his life afterwards were very apparent.
0:13:14 > 0:13:18That, before the accident.
0:13:18 > 0:13:23Within six months, he then looked like that,
0:13:23 > 0:13:26- purely through the effects of shock. - How old was he here?
0:13:26 > 0:13:31- 40 in both pictures. - That is incredible.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35Just as extraordinary is the way the White Star Line
0:13:35 > 0:13:38treated the crew who survived the sinking.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41The other thing we need here is his discharge book
0:13:41 > 0:13:44which recorded all his voyages,
0:13:44 > 0:13:49including the 13th voyage for the White Star Line, the Titanic.
0:13:49 > 0:13:53Engaged the 10th April 1912, in Southampton
0:13:53 > 0:13:57and discharged on the 15th April at sea.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00For "discharge" read "the sack".
0:14:00 > 0:14:03In other words, as the ship went down they sacked the lot of them.
0:14:03 > 0:14:08It's almost beyond belief that this could happen.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11In fact, when they reached New York they were penniless.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13White Star washed their hands of them
0:14:13 > 0:14:15and Woolworths let them stand behind the counters
0:14:15 > 0:14:19and whatever they took in a day they could spend on food and clothes.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22So thanks to Woolies, my grandfather got food and clothes.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25- Is that really what happened? - Absolutely true.
0:14:27 > 0:14:31The families of crew who died were eventually compensated
0:14:31 > 0:14:36but there was no bringing back the loved ones who had been lost.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40But what Southampton shows us is that the tragedy of Titanic
0:14:40 > 0:14:43isn't just about those who died that night.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45It's about thousands of other people as well.
0:14:45 > 0:14:50Parents, wives, children and the survivors themselves
0:14:50 > 0:14:54were all faced with the struggle to rebuild their lives
0:14:54 > 0:14:56in the wake of the giant ship.
0:14:59 > 0:15:03The scars left by Titanic are felt not just in Britain
0:15:03 > 0:15:05but around the world.
0:15:05 > 0:15:09Titanic carried people from over two dozen different countries.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12Not just passengers, but also as crew.
0:15:12 > 0:15:16In fact, there was one area of the ship
0:15:16 > 0:15:19that relied exclusively on foreign expertise.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23Dining on Titanic was quite an international affair.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26In the a la carte restaurant, the first-class diners expected
0:15:26 > 0:15:30the finest food to be served with style and panache
0:15:30 > 0:15:35and that responsibility fell to 37 Italian waiters.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39Luigi Gatti moved to London from Italy in the 1880s.
0:15:39 > 0:15:44By 1910, he ran a very successful restaurant in London.
0:15:44 > 0:15:50But he was ambitious and pitched for the contract to operate on-board restaurants for the White Star Line.
0:15:50 > 0:15:54He won and one of his first contracts was to run
0:15:54 > 0:15:58Titanic's Cafe Parisien.
0:15:58 > 0:16:03It was a golden opportunity, a chance to show the world what he could do,
0:16:03 > 0:16:07to produce the finest dining to the rich and famous -
0:16:07 > 0:16:11the Astors, the Guggenheims - on the world's grandest ship.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14So he chose waiting staff that could deliver the goods.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17He recruited men he had worked with before,
0:16:17 > 0:16:21including the best staff from his London restaurant,
0:16:21 > 0:16:26and he tempted away experienced waiters from some of the city's top hotels.
0:16:27 > 0:16:31They came from all over Italy and their new boss, Luigi Gatti,
0:16:31 > 0:16:35had a fine reputation, both as a chef and as a bloke.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38So many of them didn't hesitate to sign up with him
0:16:38 > 0:16:40and join him on Titanic.
0:16:44 > 0:16:49They faced a daunting task, helping to feed 3,000 people,
0:16:49 > 0:16:52three times a day for six days.
0:16:52 > 0:16:56Staff needed to dish out over 50,000 meals.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00That is a lot of grub and this is a lot of grog.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03When Titanic was in Southampton
0:17:03 > 0:17:06she took on enough food to feed a small town.
0:17:06 > 0:17:1150 tons of meat, 40 tons of potatoes, 35,000 eggs,
0:17:11 > 0:17:161,500 gallons of milk and that was just the basics.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19It was a Titanic-sized shopping list
0:17:19 > 0:17:24and the chefs on board cooked up some Titanic-sized dinners.
0:17:24 > 0:17:28In 1912, Titanic's luxury, opulence and novelty
0:17:28 > 0:17:32made it THE way for millionaires to cross the Atlantic.
0:17:32 > 0:17:38The 320 first-class passengers all expected the highest standards of service.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42So in his Cafe Parisien, Luigi Gatti needed to really pull it out of the bag.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45What do you make of that, 11 courses?
0:17:45 > 0:17:49I think it's fantastic. There are some great dishes on here.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52The advantage of having 11 courses like this is
0:17:52 > 0:17:56that you can really show off the opulence, the elegance, the beauty,
0:17:56 > 0:17:59the richness, frankly, of the restaurant.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02- We're going to prepare one of these dishes?- Yes, we are.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04We're going to prepare this dish here,
0:18:04 > 0:18:06the filet mignon lili, which was one of the entrees
0:18:06 > 0:18:09and the entrees were really for the chefs to show their skill.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12This is a dish which would have taken about two days
0:18:12 > 0:18:14to prepare from start to finish.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16How are we going to start this off?
0:18:16 > 0:18:21We're going to start by making a brown roux which is going to be the base to thicken the sauce.
0:18:21 > 0:18:26Cooking this dish shows just how much it took to impress those millionaire passengers.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29The sauce alone took two whole days to make.
0:18:29 > 0:18:33It has to be thickened, strained, reduced,
0:18:33 > 0:18:35concentrated and fortified.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37What is amazing,
0:18:37 > 0:18:41this isn't one course, this is just a sauce for one course.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45Yes, and now we've got potatoes, the artichokes, the foie gras,
0:18:45 > 0:18:49the truffle and, of course, the steak to prepare as well.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52We've got to peel, slice, roast, blanch, sear,
0:18:52 > 0:18:55layer and garnish.
0:18:55 > 0:19:00When you see a dish like this you realise why so many of the rich
0:19:00 > 0:19:04paid thousands of pounds in today's money to travel on board.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07Food in a restaurant is not just about the food, it's also about the service.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11It's when these dishes leave the kitchen that the true theatre starts.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14So Gatti has got most of his relatives, his chosen waiters,
0:19:14 > 0:19:18that really are the chosen few, from his London restaurants.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20The best of the best.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24But on April the 14th, around 20 to midnight,
0:19:24 > 0:19:28Luigi and his team were clearing up, when, suddenly,
0:19:28 > 0:19:29they heard an unusual noise.
0:19:31 > 0:19:38- CREAKING - Titanic had hit the iceberg. It tore a gash in her hull 100 metres long.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Water flooded in.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Officers rushed to their posts,
0:19:42 > 0:19:45stewards helped passengers into their lifejackets,
0:19:45 > 0:19:50the crew manned the lifeboats, but what about Luigi and the waiters?
0:19:50 > 0:19:53They were restaurant staff not sailors.
0:19:53 > 0:19:57They knew little about what to do on a sinking ship.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00So where did they fit in the pecking order for a place in a lifeboat?
0:20:00 > 0:20:02We don't know.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04What we do know is that Luigi Gatti
0:20:04 > 0:20:07and every one of his waiters lost their lives.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15There are memorials to the waiters in their native Italy.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19One of these is Alphonso Perotti.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22Just before he boarded, he sent a postcard to his mother.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24His grandchildren still cherish it.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00The story of the Italian waiters tells us that Titanic
0:21:00 > 0:21:05is an experience shared by all nationalities and all classes.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09In the final moments, the ship didn't discriminate.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13I've come to Eastbourne,
0:21:13 > 0:21:16to discover how two friends chose to die side by side
0:21:16 > 0:21:20and how the sinking left a family torn apart.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24This is the story of the Titanic band.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Now, we might think we know it well.
0:21:26 > 0:21:31As the ship went down, eight brave musicians played on.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33But that was only the start of the story.
0:21:33 > 0:21:39All the musicians died, but of course, their stories lived on.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41And for the family of one,
0:21:41 > 0:21:46his heroic death led to a tale of jealousy, bitterness and greed.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48His name was Jock Hume
0:21:48 > 0:21:54but my connection to him is through one of his best mates on Titanic, John Woodward.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58John was a cellist at the Grand Hotel Eastbourne
0:21:58 > 0:22:04and like him, I used to perform there, not as a musician but as a dancer.
0:22:06 > 0:22:10Ah, yes, yes. This is the place.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13It's the early '70s, I'm young,
0:22:13 > 0:22:15I'm 25 years old, my hair is dark.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19I used to come here for special functions
0:22:19 > 0:22:23and we would be the cabaret, my wife and I.
0:22:25 > 0:22:30Ballroom dancing. I've got to say, the place hasn't changed at all.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33And I'm sure the place hasn't changed
0:22:33 > 0:22:37since dear old John Woodward was here, back in the early 1900s.
0:22:42 > 0:22:46John Woodward played next door to the ballroom, in the Great Hall.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50Today, that job is done by the Palm Court Strings Orchestra.
0:22:50 > 0:22:56Do you think this environment would have been one that would have sort of helped him along?
0:22:56 > 0:22:59Absolutely. If he played here, which I know he did,
0:22:59 > 0:23:01he couldn't have had a better learning curve
0:23:01 > 0:23:03for going on the Titanic.
0:23:03 > 0:23:08It would have been a fantastic grounding for playing while people are talking, and having tea.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11Was there great camaraderie, do you think, between the musicians?
0:23:11 > 0:23:14I don't think they could have gone off on these long trips,
0:23:14 > 0:23:16you know, and not be close.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19- It would have been a nightmare for them if they had.- Yeah.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21I think they probably were really good friends.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28In search of adventure, John left Eastbourne
0:23:28 > 0:23:30and signed up with the White Star Line.
0:23:30 > 0:23:35He got a job playing on Titanic and it cost him his young life.
0:23:35 > 0:23:39There's a memorial to John at the bandstand on the seafront at Eastbourne.
0:23:41 > 0:23:46"John Wesley Woodward, a member of the Eastbourne Municipal Orchestra
0:23:46 > 0:23:49"and the Grand Hotel Eastbourne Orchestra."
0:23:51 > 0:23:55It goes on to say how he died on the Titanic in 1912.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57"Faithful unto death."
0:23:58 > 0:24:02When you see a thing like this
0:24:02 > 0:24:05it makes you appreciate the bravery of these guys.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08These guys weren't big tough soldiers or sailors,
0:24:08 > 0:24:10they were musicians.
0:24:10 > 0:24:14Yet they stayed with the ship until it went down.
0:24:17 > 0:24:22John's story is tragic, but there is another story just as sad -
0:24:22 > 0:24:24about another musician, one of his closest friends,
0:24:24 > 0:24:28somebody that he played beside and died beside.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Jock Hume was from Dumfries.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36He was in love with a girl, but his father didn't approve
0:24:36 > 0:24:39and an angry feud erupted.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41Jock turned his back on his dad
0:24:41 > 0:24:46and took a job at White Star to build a life for himself and Mary.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51Then, the week before Jock was to commence his work on the Titanic,
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Mary discovered she was pregnant.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Jock was delighted and promised
0:24:57 > 0:24:59that when he returned they would be married.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02Every night,
0:25:02 > 0:25:05Jock and the band entertained the first-class passengers,
0:25:05 > 0:25:11in the luxurious restaurant, and that's where they were when Titanic struck the iceberg.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15As the diners went up onto deck,
0:25:15 > 0:25:17the band followed them into the cold night air
0:25:17 > 0:25:22and continued to play as commotion turned into chaos.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28In the midst of it all the band struck up.
0:25:28 > 0:25:33The story goes that the last tune they played was Nearer My God To Thee.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43There were over 2,200 people on Titanic
0:25:43 > 0:25:47and lifeboat places for just 1,180.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51It was certain hundreds would die.
0:25:51 > 0:25:56As they played, it must have become clear to the band how it would all end.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00But rather than fight for a place in the lifeboat,
0:26:00 > 0:26:03Jock and his friends played on to their deaths.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Titanic left Mary grief stricken.
0:26:08 > 0:26:13Worse, it left her unmarried and pregnant with a child, with no father -
0:26:13 > 0:26:16a desperate position for a woman in 1912.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20So she turned to Jock's father, Andrew.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23He couldn't have given her a colder reception.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27Yvonne Hume is Andrew's great-granddaughter.
0:26:27 > 0:26:31He just couldn't bear the thought of Mary and her unborn child.
0:26:31 > 0:26:35It was as simple as that. He did not accept her existence.
0:26:35 > 0:26:41His son was his and no-one else's and he slammed the door in her face.
0:26:41 > 0:26:45A special fund was set up to compensate the families of Titanic victims
0:26:45 > 0:26:50so Mary applied for help, but Jock's father was determined to deny her.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Andrew also applied to the relief fund
0:26:53 > 0:26:56because as far as he was concerned,
0:26:56 > 0:26:59Mary was not entitled to that money. It was for him to have,
0:26:59 > 0:27:01to stop her from getting it.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04The dispute was settled in court,
0:27:04 > 0:27:06and Mary received the money she was entitled to
0:27:06 > 0:27:09but the family rift never healed
0:27:09 > 0:27:16and for 100 years, one side of the family was entirely lost to the other.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20Yvonne had no idea what happened to the daughter of her great-uncle Jock
0:27:20 > 0:27:23until she looked into her family history.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27The letter came through the door and it was from a long-lost cousin.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29"I'm Jock Hume's grandson.
0:27:29 > 0:27:33"I wondered if you'd like to meet up and compare notes."
0:27:33 > 0:27:36Well, we met and this is how I found everything out.
0:27:36 > 0:27:41The Titanic disaster broke up the family for 100 years
0:27:41 > 0:27:45and only now is Yvonne getting to know the cousins she never knew she had.
0:27:46 > 0:27:51The tale of Jock Hume, his father, his fiancee and his child
0:27:51 > 0:27:56shows us that 100 years later, tales from the Titanic can still surprise us
0:27:56 > 0:27:59and the sinking wasn't the end of the story,
0:27:59 > 0:28:02it was just the beginning of hundreds more.
0:28:07 > 0:28:12Join me next time, when I discover the stories of the men who are remembered with pride.
0:28:12 > 0:28:16He was a wonderful draughtsman but by Jove he was a great papa
0:28:16 > 0:28:17and that's what matters.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20The hero who was forgotten.
0:28:20 > 0:28:24It was ridiculous that Barmouth had nothing to commemorate a man
0:28:24 > 0:28:26who lived here and learnt to sail here.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28And the man who wished he was.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32I simply don't know how I would have behaved, and with respect, I don't think you do either.
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