The Titanic exhibition showcases some of the precious items recovered from the shipwreck. Held at the O2, the exhibition is very professionally put together. The lighting adds to the atmosphere as well as the music which changes as you go from room to room. Travelling around it, you get the story of the Titanic told through the passengers, the rooms and cabins and its journey.
Amazingly if you were to buy a first class ticket today, it would cost around £60,000. People who bought these tickets were the who’s who of London in 1912, including famous fashion designer Lady Lucy Duff Gordon or, ‘Lucile’. It was even rumoured that Lucy Duff Gordon, with her Olympic husband Sir Cosno Duff Gordon, their daughter and maid escaped by commandeering a lifeboat through bribery!
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| Lady Lucy Duff Gordon or 'Lucile' in 1919. |
The passengers included a scent maker, who was travelling to New York to sell his perfume, carrying with him miniature scent bottles, found in a leather bag still containing perfume.
The stories of the travellers are amazing. In some cases it feels like the ship and its people were doomed, with many passengers being transferred to the Titanic from the Atlantis, which was delayed due to a coal strike.
When I arrived at the exhibition, I was given a boarding pass. These are individual, giving the name of a passenger, information about them, and which class they were travelling in. I was given Mrs Henry William Prauenthal, a first class passenger who survived.
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| My Boarding pass www.theo2.co.uk/inside/titanic-the-artefact-exhibition.html |
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