I'm sure I have been in the Cunard Building in NYC. I think it is near Battery Park isn't it? I think it is now a post office. The decoration in it was still...
Bridget E <bridget_e_2000@...> wrote: Models of SHIPS that is..lol.. **These are large files, but it is simply the only way you can see all the detail...
On the QM herself ;) Bridget Rick95conv@... wrote: those are awesome... where does that normandie model live? [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Honestly I didn't even look to see that, I just snapped away because I remembered some folks here talking about the models. Thought some photos would be nice...
... near Battery ... was still in ... Yes, it's near the Battery at 25 Broadway, near Wall Street. The building was closed the last time I took a look, in Dec....
... it ... The cutaway models of the NORMANDIE and LUSITANIA and TITANIC were both built by Father Robert Pirrone, and NORMANDIE took more than 15 years to...
Hi Lucy, The NORMANDIE took about 15 years to complete, and the TITANIC and LUSITANIA models took about 10-12 years each. The TITANIC was the first one he...
you're kidding I live in Long Beach .. I was just over there..stayed in A143,, my first couple of nights here I guess I know what I want to do Saturday now.....
Hi Lucy, I'm not exactly sure what he uses to build the models, but I believe it's a variety of heavy card stock as well as foam board, etc. Quite a variety of...
It's part of the self-guided tour, 1st stop really, just before the engine room area, behind the walled off Titanic enterance. Ask the guides, they will point...
wcyclops@... writes: Over the years there has been sometimes heated discussion as to what name was commonly given to the first class area where the three...
Hi, On the BBC2 series "The Lost World of Friese-Greene", this episode showed colour film of John Brown's Clydebank shipyard in the mid-late 1920s. A...
... Me too ;) I found this link from the BBC however: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4086041.stm & it states that "The former John Brown finally closed...
This site has several QM movie clips. I have found it best to just right click on the download links, and save them to my desktop as it takes a while for them...
... Prom. Deck Square may have been the official name - but Piccadilly Circus was the common name used by the crew. Bill and Tom, Although the crew knew the...
... Is this the two-funnelled or the four-funnelled Maury? It is interesting to note that in 1951 Robert Donat played William Friese-Greene, the father of...
... <finishedwithengines@...> wrote: Although the crew knew the Prom Deck Main Lounge as Piccadilly Circus Sorry folks I got mixed up between the lounge and...
So Frank, as I understand it the crew did refer to the assembly and shopping area as Piccadilly Circus even though its formal name was Prom Deck Square. Bill ...
I always thought that since Piccadilly Square overseas is considered a meeting place, that this is why the ship adopted this name. Sort of like "Towne Square"...
... a meeting place, Biddy, Piccadilly Circus (in London) is a meeting place - for pigeons! It is also a roundabout (traffic circle?)- a rarity in North...
... Is this the two-funnelled or the four-funnelled Maury? It is interesting to note that in 1951 Robert Donat played William Friese-Greene, the father of...
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