Just back from the Titanic Centre, Belfast. £33.80 for a family of four ( under 5's go free) and roughly a pound an hour for secure underground parking. It is recommended that you pre book your tickets as this place gets quite busy ( even in October). It is a self guided tour that if you were to do it properly would take about 3 hours. We spent 1 hr 45 min cos we had the littte fella but even he wasn't too bored.
The building itself is supposed to mimic the bow of the great ship.
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Samson and Goliath in the adjoining shipyards
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There were loads of screens with old film clips being played. The ship on the left is the Titanic being built while you can make out the beginnings of it's sister ship, The Olympic, under construction on the right
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We took a "cable car" which brought us on a trip to see the Titanic under construction on monster screens complete with noises.. It moved quite slowly so was perfectly safe for kids. It dropped and climbed about 50 feet on the journey.
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These are the ship's boilers roughly 35 feet high
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First Class Cabin
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2nd Class Cabin. The bunks were 4 ft in length. The 3rd class cabins had 4/6 bunks in them with no washing/toilet facilities
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We stepped into another gallery which had floor to ceiling screens in front and down both sides. The feeling you got was that you were actually in a lift going from bottom to top inside the ship. I was dizzy walking away at the end.
Boiler Room
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Passenger Corridors
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One of the decks
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Restaurant
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Grand Staircase
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Wheelhouse
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Last ports of call
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...and finally Queenstown/Cobh where Mermaid's dad was from.
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Some of the passengers. I think the first guy, Thomas Andrews, was the guy who remained in the restaurant in the film. He corrected the time on the mantlepiece clock.
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If you enlarge this one, you can see where the record notes the launch and loss of the ship
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The End
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I think the "CQ" at the end stood for "Come Quick"
Replica of a lifeboat
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The next series of photos was taken on a "see through" floor that travels over the wreck of the Titanic. In the last 3 photos, you'll see that the stern is crumpled up. This is because it hit the seabed at a far faster rate than the front ( I presume because it weighed more what with the engine etc). You can see my foot at the bottom of each.
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Some artifacts from the wreck site.
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Kate's dress
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Finally, the slipway where it was built. It must have been an awesome site. There were steel gantry's more than 200 feet high ( i.e. a huge steel skeleton that supported the keel as it grew).
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There was a memorial with the names of the dead near the slipway. I didn't take any photos because, tbh, I was a bit annoyed. I assumed the dead would have been listed in alphabetical order so I went over to look for any namesakes. I found that even in death, they were seperated into whatever class of passenger they were i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd class and crew were all kept seperated.
The building itself is supposed to mimic the bow of the great ship.
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[/img]Samson and Goliath in the adjoining shipyards
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[/img]There were loads of screens with old film clips being played. The ship on the left is the Titanic being built while you can make out the beginnings of it's sister ship, The Olympic, under construction on the right
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[/img]We took a "cable car" which brought us on a trip to see the Titanic under construction on monster screens complete with noises.. It moved quite slowly so was perfectly safe for kids. It dropped and climbed about 50 feet on the journey.
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[/img]These are the ship's boilers roughly 35 feet high
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[/img]First Class Cabin
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[/img]2nd Class Cabin. The bunks were 4 ft in length. The 3rd class cabins had 4/6 bunks in them with no washing/toilet facilities
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[/img]We stepped into another gallery which had floor to ceiling screens in front and down both sides. The feeling you got was that you were actually in a lift going from bottom to top inside the ship. I was dizzy walking away at the end.
Boiler Room
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[/img]Passenger Corridors
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[/img]One of the decks
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[/img]Restaurant
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[/img]Grand Staircase
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[/img]Wheelhouse
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[/img]Last ports of call
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[/img]...and finally Queenstown/Cobh where Mermaid's dad was from.
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[/img]Some of the passengers. I think the first guy, Thomas Andrews, was the guy who remained in the restaurant in the film. He corrected the time on the mantlepiece clock.
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[/img]If you enlarge this one, you can see where the record notes the launch and loss of the ship
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[/img]The End
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[/img]I think the "CQ" at the end stood for "Come Quick"
Replica of a lifeboat
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[/img]The next series of photos was taken on a "see through" floor that travels over the wreck of the Titanic. In the last 3 photos, you'll see that the stern is crumpled up. This is because it hit the seabed at a far faster rate than the front ( I presume because it weighed more what with the engine etc). You can see my foot at the bottom of each.
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[/img]Some artifacts from the wreck site.
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[/img]Kate's dress
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[/img]Finally, the slipway where it was built. It must have been an awesome site. There were steel gantry's more than 200 feet high ( i.e. a huge steel skeleton that supported the keel as it grew).
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[/img]There was a memorial with the names of the dead near the slipway. I didn't take any photos because, tbh, I was a bit annoyed. I assumed the dead would have been listed in alphabetical order so I went over to look for any namesakes. I found that even in death, they were seperated into whatever class of passenger they were i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd class and crew were all kept seperated.
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. ( I think the Falls road was one of Cam's favourite places when he did his tour 
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