The piece of coal

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0:10:07 > 0:10:12The Titanic burned 620 tonnes of coal a day.

0:10:12 > 0:10:16Here's just one bit from its bunker dredged up from the wreck site.

0:10:16 > 0:10:17I was on holiday in Las Vegas

0:10:17 > 0:10:19with my wife five years ago,

0:10:19 > 0:10:21and I heard of a Titanic exhibition

0:10:21 > 0:10:25on Las Vegas strip. They were selling what I consider to be

0:10:25 > 0:10:27pieces of the Titanic. It wasn't cheap,

0:10:27 > 0:10:30but I think the important thing with this was

0:10:30 > 0:10:33it was part of the Titanic. I felt that its home place

0:10:33 > 0:10:34was really somewhere in Belfast.

0:10:34 > 0:10:38The men who built the Titanic would have stopped here at the barbershop

0:10:38 > 0:10:41on their way to the shipyard.

0:10:41 > 0:10:44Many of the customers' grandfathers actually helped build the Titanic.

0:10:44 > 0:10:48I think it's important that people do feel that connection.

0:10:48 > 0:10:51I bought this coal because it is part of the Titanic,

0:10:51 > 0:10:54it is part of the shipyard

0:10:54 > 0:10:55and it is part of Belfast.