Memorial: M5030

Memorial in Albert Road, Colne, Lancashire commemorating Wallace Henry Hartley d. 1912, bandmaster on ‘Titanic’

Location

Albert Road, Colne, Lancashire, England

Transcript

'WALLACE / HARTLEY / BANDMASTER OF / THE R.M.S. TITANIC / WHO PERISHED IN / THE FOUNDERING / OF THAT VESSEL / APRIL 15TH 1912 / ERECTED BY VOLUNTARY / CONTRIBUTIONS TO COM- / MEMORATE THE HEROISM / OF A NATIVE OF THIS/TOWN'

Details

Description: A bronze bust of Hartley stands on a stone plinth, flanked by two small female figures holding a lyre and a laurel wreath representing music and valour.
Type: Memorial
Position: Next to War Memorial
Materials: Bronze, Hopton wood stone; granite
Date Erected: 1915
Artists: Bromsgrove Guild
Vessel: Titanic

People

Hartley, Wallace
Age: 33
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Bandmaster
Organisation: White Star Line

Extra

Notes: The memorial cost £265-00. The figures were recast after they were stolen.
Bibliography: Clare Hartwell & Nikolause Pevsner 'The Buildings of England: Lancashire: North' (Yale, 2009) p.256; Quintin Watt 'The Bromsgrove Guild' (Bromsgrove Society, 1999).
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters