Titanic/Andrews Fact vs. Myth

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Photo of the Harland & Wolff Apprentices  c. 1890 is frequently misidentified.  

Thomas Andrews Jr. is standing 2nd from the right in the group photo as published in “Shipbuilders to the World” and elsewhere.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Fate of Barbour Home:

Conway House  was sold for use as a hotel in 1953.    The original house (as part of the Conway   Hotel) was destroyed in a bombing accident in April 1976.  The hotel continued to operate until 2000,  after which it was demolished & sold as real estate.    The site has been renamed “Redwoods.”

Belfast News-Letter 8 February 1873

Birth announcement for Thomas Andrews Jr.

 

"Approach to the New World" by Norman Wilkinson

Hung over the fireplace in the Smoking Room on the RMS Olympic

 

"Plymouth Harbor" by Norman Wilkinson

 Hung over the fireplace in the Smoking Room on the RMS Titanic

Henry Lawlor & Family c. late 1920's

Next door neighbors (closer to Lisburn Road)  to the Andrews on Windsor Avenue. 

Mrs. Lawlor (Beatrice Kathleen) seated far left.   Daughter Margot (born 1908)  seated next to her father in the second row.

Thomson Hamilton

Thomson Hamilton.    Secretary to Thomas Andrews Jr.      Jane Stokes collection.  (granddaughter).

 

 

 

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