Bimble: Warrington’s Titanic

In the words of William Vivers “I’ll never let go mast”
Warrington’s own disaster story.

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Good morning bimblers and you join me at St oswal’s Church in Winnick regular views of the channel will know that I like to start a lot of my D Little Adventures here at St oswal’s Church there are a lot of curious facts that surround it but my favorite fact is that

The captain of the Titanic Edward Smith married his wife Sarah Pennington here in 1887 but Warrington has its own Titanic Story a story about a ship built in Warrington that was the largest of its day run by the white Starline and it sunk on its maiden voyage only the story in inton happened

58 years prior to the Titanic we could start telling that story just around the corner let’s been More big puns are easy as to make aim for the starts it’s yours just wait you do your best along the way but it’s those arms that told me I don’t care if it’s yours or mine without you it’s just a waste of time you showed me from the start such

Inspirations need a heart to bring you Around it could be ours big aspirations need a hard to hold you hard to hold you down no soon get lost along the way as sure as night design today as long as I’m allowed to say it’s my heart that this is Vulcan Village and it used

To be home to the Vulcan Foundry it was opened in 1832 and it was originally called Charles tayloring company it was of course Charles Taylor that owned the line share of The Foundry and he built it to capitalize on that new fangled Railway the one between Manchester and Liverpool the world’s

First steam powered inter city Railway they needed tracks and gers and bridges and they needed locomotives and that’s when Robert Stevenson joined Charles Taylor and Company and formed the Vulcan Foundry Vulcan being the Roman god of fire and volcanoes and metal work and Robert Stevenson being the son of George Stevenson the fellow

That built that new fangled Railway it was a busy time around here so much so that they built a village for the workers hence these identical yellow houses it’s a Conservation Area these days one curious thing is on the Gable end of one of the rows of houses it’s a

Steel notice that tells Hawkers and ballad singers to do one I’ll take the hint and Bimble minimal forces the grp magnetically BR brought me to you visions that cut through the cold to my heart feelings of War now resum feeling that coming from you burst into Blow at the scen of my Heart as if this was love that I felt falling for somebody else taking my eyes from the ground turning my heart upside down as if this could change all the past fixing the bruts from the last time that I felt anything as if this was love that I felt

As if this was somebody Else Brought out some colorful Sparks brought back to light from the dark broke out in shimmering waves to my Heart CP attemp but the same familiar and simplified ways broke down the Lily white scars to my heart if this was love that I felt falling for somebody else taking my eyes from the ground turning my heart upside down as if this could change all the past fixing

The bruts from the last time that I felt anything as if this was love that I felt as if this was somebody [Applause] else as if this was love that I felt falling for somebody else taking my eyes from the ground turning my heart upside down as if this could change all the past fixing the bruise from the last time that I felt anything as if this was love that I felt

As if this was somebody Else Business at the Vulcan foundering was so good that Charles Taylor decided to open another Foundry here in Bank in Warrington by the banks of the river Mery it’s a housing estate now but back in 1850 one of the first things they built here was a hydraulic press for

Lifting the giant rectangular tubes of the britanna bridge that goes over the meni Straits that giant hydraulic press was actually displayed at the great exhibition in London in 1851 you know the one that they had to build the Crystal Palace for in Hy Park according to my big book of bimble the

Hydraulic press would have been viewed by Charles Darwin Prince Albert KL Marx leis Carrol Charlotte Bronte Samuel Colt and Charles Dickens and it all would have been sponsored by the world’s first soft drink scheps a lot of the parts of the britania bridge and the Conway suspension bridge were built here at

Banki that could have something to do with their designer Robert Stevenson clearly getting mates rates off Charles Taylor the proximity of the Banky Foundry to the river Mery made it perfect for building iron ships new technology back then that’s [Applause] bimble go talk all your thoughts on your mind are you listening you still won’t figure it out figure with all your thoughts on your mind all the time oh it’s def you still won’t figure it out the first metal boat was apparently launched onto the river 7 in

1787 it was built by a man called John wil son in his iron Foundry to prove a point the first commercial iron hole vessel was launched in 1819 it was a hor drone barge on the Scottish canals and by coincidence it name was Vulcan no relation the boat

They built here in 1853 was much more impressive it was what you call a Clipper that’s the classic design of boats you know with the three masts and the bow sails the ones they always have oil paintings of in museums Clippers are known for Speed but this one was known

For its size according to my big book of bimble it was 70 M long and 12 M wide and it was 8 m deep and it displaced 1,750 tons of water and it could carry 4,000 tons of cargo without any passengers on it took 6 months of them

To build the iron hole here in bank and Warrington what do you reckon they called it the RMS tayor after big Charlie Boy I mean they used Charles Tay’s iron but he didn’t design it I think we’re going to have to go to liver poool that’s [Applause] bimble for All While committed like the tides in and left before your eyes I couldn’t count the hours you keep hours into days all the points had passed away until it’s only once a week you know I could have done more you know I could have tried Hard I know I could have been Here I know I could have broke heart make the plans I wish to keep in the hours before you sleep if I’d have said good night once more wishing for the time if I’d have kept One open eye onto the glowing bedroom floor you know I could have done More you know I could have tried Heart I know I could have been Here William reny originally built ships in abdine he built about 15 of them and he became quite sought after for Designing these new fangled iron ships he worked in Glasgow in Canada and he eventually settled here in Liverpool he went into a partnership called renie Johnson and ranking back in those days

The big ship Builders used to use salt housee dock here in Liverpool and they would build the big ships in between salt housee Dock and the river Mery that was up until 1841 when they built the Albert dock exactly where they used to build all those big old boats so all the ship

Builders needed to find new places to build the big boats leads over in birken Ed or Banky in Warrington that’s Bim more Maybe it didn’t work at the time maybe it never Did a mistake that made the distance or a trying to leave so Charles Taylor built it and William reny designed it but who paid for it that would be a Charles company can’t find out a lot of information about them but we do have a lot of information

About the company that charted the RMS Taylor the White Star Line the same company that owned the Titanic will sort of it’s the same name at least Thomas Isme the fellow that owned the Titanic bought the name the White Star Line and the flag associated with it after the original owners John

Pilkington and Henry Wilson went bankrupt he bought the name for £1,000 that’s about 90,000 in today’s money and he had his headquarters here in this delightfully stripy building behind me it’s a hotel now not really anything to do with the RMS Taylor that’s pimble FL from my

Shoulders to Palms in a white hot glow leaving white cold scars left be and on show just to prove they were ours maybe it worked maybe after being launched at ban on the 4th of October 1853 the RMS Taylor Made its way down the river Mery it stopped overnight in

Run corn because of the tides but eventually it made it to Liverpool to be fitted out it was only supposed to take a month to fit out the RMS Taylor but due to a size it took three on the 19th of January 1854 it eventually left Liverpool Bound for Melbourne in

Australia that’s why she was designed to take people to Australia for the gold rush in fact the population of Australia increased from 430,000 to 1.7 million between 1851 and 1854 there were 580 passengers on board and 71 crew the hold was full and on the

Top deck was the 50t iron hole of a steam Bound for the Australian Rivers just like the Titanic’s maiden voyage the maiden voyage of the RMS Taylor wouldn’t go according to plan the crew didn’t know it at the time but that 50ft iron Hull on the deck was interfering with the ship’s Compass

After 2 days of sailing through the wintry fog they thought they were going south the Irish sea they were in fact heading west towards lambay Island just north of Dublin when the crew spotted land coming towards them they found that the rudder was too small for the ship’s

Tonnage they also found that the ropes on the sails were slack because they hadn’t been stretched in properly they dropped both anchors and both the chain snapped so they hit the island the first Lifeboat was destroyed on the rocks and the second one drifted out to sea the

Crew deemed it too dangerous to try and launch any others speaking of the crew out of 71 of them only 37 of them were qualified Seaman people fought the way to shore clambering over one of the masss that had fell down but unfortunately 350 people died it was one

Of the survivors that alerted the Coast Guard no mobile phones back then they had to do it on foot and the Coast Guard Station was on the other side of the island it took 14 hours for the Coast Guard to get there no outboard motors they had to row the

Lifeboats when they got there they found the last remaining person on the RMS tayor a William vivers who had climbed up the rig into the top of a mast which was still poking out of the sea an inquest determined that Charles Moore and the White Star Line were at fault

And Charles Taylor and Company continued to make some iron ships although business dried up Marin are superstitious people and they thought that the wreck of the RMS Taylor meant that his company was jinxed so Warrington concentrated on making wire rather than iron ships we don’t even do that now we just got an [Applause] Ikea He for