The blai

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0:00:07 > 0:00:10When I was 15, we moved house,

0:00:10 > 0:00:13and my father came across this little piece of metal,

0:00:13 > 0:00:15which he said was a blai -

0:00:15 > 0:00:20a piece of steel punched out to make way for the rivet.

0:00:20 > 0:00:24Weighs about half a pound, it's a solid thing.

0:00:24 > 0:00:28He told me, "It's our family's piece of the Titanic."

0:00:30 > 0:00:34My grandfather had worked as a riveter on the Titanic.

0:00:34 > 0:00:36There were around three million rivets

0:00:36 > 0:00:38holding its great hull plates together.

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0:00:40 > 0:00:44I think of the men who had put heart and soul into building that ship.

0:00:44 > 0:00:50Granda was a wiry little man, whom I loved dearly.

0:00:50 > 0:00:53He kept the blai as hard evidence of his part

0:00:53 > 0:00:56in building the most famous ship in the world.

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