A talk by ANGELA YOUNG organised by Thursley History Society
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The History Society was very lucky in being able to engage Angela Young to come and talk to us about her research into the Sinking of RMS Titanic. She was doing this for a novel she intended to write and the more she researched, the more she discovered interesting things about her great grandmother the Countess of Rothes and Able Seaman Thomas Jones. She decided that this was too serious a subject to include in a novel so she turned all the facts into talk about the Titanic. The talk lasted about 45 minutes, but there was a hiccough at the beginning as her laptop would not work. She was extremely cool about the whole mishap and luckily Tim Walsh came to the rescue and drove home to collect his laptop and saved the evening. Angela delivered her talk in a most captivating manner, her voice and delivery were magical and at the end of the talk there was not a sound from the audience. You could have heard a pin drop. It was such an eye-opener to be taken into the lives of two characters who interacted on this tragic night. The novel she has written – “The Dance of Love” (not on the topic of The Titanic) was for sale at the end of the evening.
Our thanks go to her as well as to Sarah Grillo for her delicious eaty-bits, but most of all to Tim Walsh. A thoroughly enjoyable evening.