Titanic Walk
The first Titanic walk for 2024 was held on Saturday 13th April at 11.00am with a group of 18 people and 4 well behaved dogs. For once the weather was very kind to us …it was sunny and warm. Pervious wet weather was a concern to FoSOC’s guides due to the pathways becoming very muddy. But the weather for two days earlier having no rain, the mud was soft but firm for walking on.
On this walk there was a volunteer helper call Mischa who is doing her Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award on the Old Southampton Cemetery.
On guide Graham Linecar’s walk, a descendant of a victim of the disaster from Southampton, a Mr William Mintram, a fireman who lost his life on the Titanic. She was able to see where his memorial was on the walk and later in the Non-Conformist display, she was able to identify for us the lady, in a photograph we have, as being Maude Newman, the Lady Visitor to the Titanic Relief Fund families and able to identify others in that picture! Grateful thanks from FoSOC.
Many thanks to Graham for a very informative and interesting walk, the group agree with a clap of approval at the end of the walk.
We even saw the first (possibly) butterfly in the Old Cemetery a ‘peacock’.
Text by Val Ferguson and Photos taken by Bruce Larner
