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Daily Mail
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- Daily Mail
Antiques Roadshow expert shares staggering value of letter written by late Titanic potwasher who survived the wreck - but his children REFUSE refuse to sell
The son and daughter of a Titanic survivor gasped when an Antiques Roadshow expert told them the value of their father's letter that made it off the ship - but the siblings refused to sell. Antiques expert Hilary Kay met with the children of Sidney Daniels, who was hired as a plate washer on the Titanic at the age of 18. When the ship began going down, Sidney was instructed to help guests out of their cabins and into life jackets. And when the time came for him to leap off the vessel, a handwritten letter to his family remained intact in his uniform pocket. More than 100 years on from the nautical tragedy, Hilary spoke to Sidney's children about his story. 'It was a Sunday, he was sound asleep, there was a banging and shouting and it was the night watchman,' said Sidney's daughter in an older episode that re-aired on the BBC this weekend. 'They were all a bit bleary-eyed because, at first, they thought it was a drill. 'It wasn't until he got up on deck, there were hardly any people around at first and then officers came and turned to him and said, "Go to these cabins".' Sidney's daughter explained how exhausted guests, roused from a deep sleep, didn't believe the frantic teenager urging them to leave their cabins. 'Of course it was hard to wake people, they were asleep,' she continued. 'Some reacted in different ways. 'One or two said "What does this young man know? He's 18, the boat is unsinkable. We're not going up on deck." 'Others were saying, "We've got children, they're going to get a chill if they go up on deck." 'So he helped the children with the lifejackets and ushered them up on deck.' Moved by the tale, Hilary painted the picture of 'chaos' and 'despair' when those on the ship realised there weren't enough lifeboats. 'That was his job, to try and get people into the lifeboats and the water was rising all the time,' said Sidney's son. 'When all the lifeboats had gone, the water was up around his knees and he thought, "It's time to go." 'So he dived off the side of the boat, swam away from it, came to a lifebelt and to my Dad's mind, it was too close to the boat, he was afraid when the boat went down, the suction would take them down so he said to this chap, "It's no good here, let's swim away." Sidney's son told how his father and the other man kept swimming together in the darkness. 'He said he saw a star in the sky which he thought was his mother,' he continued. 'And he swam towards this star and eventually came to this life raft which was upside down and he managed to cling onto that. 'When he was on there, he said, "I'm tired, I want to go to sleep," and the chap next to him said, "Don't go to sleep lad, if you do, it will be your last." So they sat there singing hymns trying to pass the time away.' The presence of the letter, Hilary pointed out, means Sideny was rescued and brought to safety. The letter lay on the table between Sidney's children and Hilary - the ink smudged and the edges frayed but, despite its journey, in good condition. Of the letter's value, Hilary said: 'We're talking around £10,000 - is the realistic value.' At this, the siblings gasped, before immediately responding: 'It's very nice but it's not going out of the family, it's going to a museum. 'Dad would have been pleased to know it had gone in there.' The letter was addressed to Sidney's family and contained mostly 'tittle tattle'. Water damage had caused the stamp to fall off. Hilary was 'delighted' at the siblings' decision, which meant countless more people could enjoy the miraculous memento from the historic event. 'It's an extraordinary item and anything related to Titanic has this extraordinary effect on people,' Hilary said. 'It is an extraordinary moment to behold something which is so linked into an extraordinary moment in history.'
BBC News
29 minutes ago
- BBC News
Halton Library in Leeds to close for major refurbishment
A library is to close for 20 weeks in the autumn to allow a major upgrade of City Council said the work at Halton Library on Selby Road followed calls from users to have the centre £870,000 scheme will include a new entrance and meeting spaces, improved internet speeds and better access for people with disabilities.A report to the council stated the work would be funded by the authority's capital programme and during the project a mobile library would be made available. The report said the library already provided stop-smoking services, police drop-ins, history talks and councillor surgeries."Halton Library continues to support the local community by offering a wide range of services," it said."However, feedback from the users of the service highlights several areas requiring improvement."According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the council said investment in the library had not kept pace with the changing needs of the community."The tired appearance of the library building can give the impression of neglect, potentially affecting community pride and reducing engagement," the report council said it hoped the work would create a more "inclusive and welcoming environment". Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
The Guardian
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- The Guardian
Richard Rusbridger obituary
My brother, Richard Rusbridger, who has died aged 75 from brain cancer, was a leading British psychoanalyst in the tradition of Melanie Klein. He taught, wrote and lectured, in the UK and abroad, as well as training many future analysts. But it was his clinical work over the course of 40 years or more that gave him the greatest satisfaction. Richard started formal training as what was sometimes called a 'post-Kleinian' in the late 1980s. His training analyst was Elizabeth Spillius, who had also been an anthropologist and who was herself one of the foremost Klein scholars. (Richard was later to co-edit her papers.) Once established in private practice, he saw patients in his north London home. When his death was announced, several of his patients took to social media to say what a profound effect their time with him had had. One wrote: 'He completely changed my life, my relationship with myself and with my family.' Another said: 'Richard was my life witness. It's a sad and scary world without him in his chair behind my head, occasionally saying 'quite'.' Richard was born in Lusaka, in what was then Northern Rhodesia, where our father, GH Rusbridger, was deputy director of education and our mother, Barbara (nee Wickham), was a nurse. Our parents returned to the UK from Africa; they had no permanent home here, and another brother, Guy, who had been born with severe disabilities, needed intensive nursing care. So when Richard was only eight, he was packed off to board at a prep school in Taunton in Somerset. Once the family was settled, in Guildford, Surrey, and after Guy's death, Richard returned to live at home. He was a chorister at Guildford Cathedral under the redoubtable Barry Rose, and sang at the building's consecration in 1961. He progressed to become a music scholar at Cranleigh. One of Richard's near contemporaries, James Harpur, wrote a fine volume of poems about the school they both knew, which included the stanza: 'Each night I prayed / for protection / from arrest and sadism / each day believing in / my random luck.' They were lines that would have spoken to Richard. At Magdalene College, Cambridge, he struggled to choose between his two loves, music and literature. One close friend at the time recalled: 'He did incredibly little work, but he was fascinated by other people and the contrast between what we pretend to be and what we are.' After a brief period of teaching he began his long immersion in the world of professionally helping others: as a social worker, as a child psychotherapist and then a child analyst and training analyst. He was, his colleagues said, a skilled clinician, with a combination of sharp clinical perception and sympathetic humanity. He was also a popular supervisor, an inspiring trainer of future analysts, and was appointed honorary reader at University College London. His interest in music and literature surfaced in a number of papers exploring artistic works through the lens of psychoanalysis, including studies of Mozart's Don Giovanni, on narcissism in King Lear, and comparing Shakepeare's Othello and Verdi's Otello. In 1982, he married Gill Philpott, a psychotherapist; they had two children, Charlie and Alice. They all survive him.
