The Titanic Memorial

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0:08:08 > 0:08:11I was about 11 or 12

0:08:11 > 0:08:13and we're coming up the town

0:08:13 > 0:08:16and I came over to the fountain to have a drink.

0:08:16 > 0:08:19And my chum was walking round and she spotted

0:08:19 > 0:08:22my name - McQuillan - and that is my maiden name.

0:08:22 > 0:08:24And I told my mother.

0:08:24 > 0:08:28So she told me that that was my granda and he had went down

0:08:28 > 0:08:29with the Titanic.

0:08:29 > 0:08:33He was a stoker. He was in the boiler room.

0:08:33 > 0:08:37In 2006, I was watching a programme

0:08:37 > 0:08:39about the Titanic graveyard in Nova Scotia

0:08:39 > 0:08:43and I just said, "That's my granda!"

0:08:43 > 0:08:47It gives me comfort that I've closure now. I know where he is.

0:08:47 > 0:08:49He's not lying at the bottom of the sea.

0:08:49 > 0:08:52I can't go out to Halifax and Canada all the time,

0:08:52 > 0:08:56but I can come here when I'm in the town and visit the grave.

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