On May 18, 1912, the town of Colne, Lancashire, fell silent. Shops closed. Stree…
On May 18, 1912, the town of Colne, Lancashire, fell silent. Shops closed. Streets filled with people. Nearly 40,000 gathered—not for royalty or war heroes—but for a man with a violin. Wallace Hartley wasn’t just the Titanic’s bandmaster. He was its final heartbeat. As the great ship groaned and tilted in the icy Atlantic, Wallace […]








