[BITList] Titanic Bandsman

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interesting piece, thanks.
I don’t know colne but I do know bridlington.
in 1901 the population of bridlington [about the most uninteresting seaside town I know – apart from filey] is unlikely to have been more than a few hundred, so it is hard to imagine how they had a ‘municipal orchestra’.
I cant even guess how much wallace henry hartley was paid in brid!
ct

From: John Feltham 
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 7:43 AM
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Subject: [BITList] Titanic Bandsman

G'day folks,

During the war years we lived in Colne.

ooroo





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Hartley,  Wallace Henry  (1878-1912), musician and bandleader on the RMS Titanic, was born on 2 June 1878 at 136 Greenfield Hill, Colne, Lancashire, the second of the six children (four surviving) of Albion Hartley (1850-1934), mill manager, and his wife, Elizabeth, nee Foulds (1851-1927), worsted weaver. Following the destruction of Greenford Mill by fire in 1885 Albion Hartley found new employment as an agent of the Refuge Assurance Company. The family moved to 1 Burnley Road, Colne, and Wallace attended the George Street Wesleyan school. There he took up the violin and later joined the local orchestral society; he also sang in Colne's Bethel chapel where his father was the choirmaster. On leaving school Hartley was employed as a clerk at the local Craven and Union Bank, and in 1893 he moved with his family to 35 Somerset Road, Almondbury, Huddersfield, following his father's appointment as a superintendent for the Refuge. Hartley had continued to play the violin and now joined the town's philharmonic orchestra, becoming a professional performer by 1901 and leaving Huddersfield for the Bridlington Municipal Orchestra two years later. After a couple of seasons he returned to live with his family, who had since moved to Leeds, and took a position with a cafe orchestra in the city. About this time he met Maria Robinson (1880-1939), the daughter of a Leeds manufacturer, then resident in Boston Spa, to whom he was later engaged. In 1908, when his family moved once more-this time to Surrey Side, West Park Street, Dewsbury-Hartley left the family home and joined first the Carl Rosa and then the Moody-Manners opera companies.
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