And the Band Played On (37 page)

Tommy Henderson, creator and curator of the delightful Dalbeattie Museum, took me back in time to Dumfries & Galloway’s early days. Motorbooks in Cecil Court, Covent Garden, assisted me putting the Humes on the right trains from Dumfries to Liverpool. Isla Robertson researched Dumfries and Galloway history and did much background sleuthing on my behalf in archives in Dumfries, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Erica Johnson, archivist, and all the other staff at the Ewart Library in Dumfries, worked like terriers in sniffing out missing pieces of my family history. Erica, who specialises in ancestry research, could teach Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot a thing or three. My thanks and appreciation go, too, to the patience of staff at the libraries and museums where I spent many productive and interesting hours in 2010. These include the Merseyside Maritime Museum, the Liverpool Library, the National Archive of Scotland, and the National Library of Scotland.

My new found second cousin and fellow
Titanic
author, Yvonne Hume, exchanged pictures and information with me, filling in many blanks about our shared ancestors. Charles Pellegrino, in his wonderful tribute to Jock in
Ghosts of Vesuvius
, opened my eyes to the important role of the band in preventing panic and thus saving lives.

But most thanks of all to my wife Nonie, without whose patience and support I would not have been able to find the time to research and write this book in a year. Her tenacious picture research in the Nova Scotia archives in Halifax was also invaluable and produced many of the most shocking images in this book.

Readers can continue Ward’s journey at www.titanic-band.com

Picture Acknowledgements

Author’s collection: 1, 2 (middle), 3 (top left & bottom), 11 (top right), 12, 15 (top & bottom left), (text). © akg-images: 6 (bottom), 15 (right). © Alamy Images: 14 (bottom). © The Art Archive: 11 (top left). © Christie’s Images/ The Bridgeman Art Library: (text). © Corbis: 11 (bottom), (text). © Dumfries & Galloway Council Cultural Services: 2 (top & bottom). © Getty Images: (text), 14 (middle right), (text). By Courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow City Council: 14 (top left). © Mary Evans Picture Library: 7 (top left), 13 (top), 14 (top right). © Musicians Union Archive, University of Stirling: 8. © The National Archives of Scotland: 13 (bottom), (text). © The New York Times Archives: 7 (top right), 10. © Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management: 7 (bottom), (text). © Press Association Images: 4. © Science and Society Picture Library: 5, 6 (top). © Craig A. Sopin collection: (text). The Leandro Bisiach violin with Andrew Hume’s name inset © Jonathan Woolston, Cambridge: 3 (top right).

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