Titanic Honour & Glory has a small, dedicated and enthusiastic crew who are here to bring the legend of the Titanic, her sister ships and the White Star Line alive for the public and to continue to promote the touring exhibition into the future where the legacy of the Titanic, her passengers and crew will be remembered. Our Current Crew members are: -
Sean Szmalc - Exhibition Manager.
My interest in the story of the Titanic goes back to when I was five years old when I watched the film a night to remember one Sunday afternoon with my Dad. I remember being touched deeply by the film. At school I did projects on the subject and began to collect material relating to the Titanic.
In the years that followed I began an apprenticeship in Carpentry and Joinery working alongside my Dad who is also a Joiner and put a great deal of my earnings from working, into collecting both Titanic and White Star Line artefacts. Unfortunately a few years ago I had to give up work due to my disability. It was then, after giving a talk on the Titanic to a local college, I was approached by a local museum who wished to display the unique collection of artefacts I have. The exhibition was a major success for the museum with phenomenal visitor numbers coming to see the display.
Other museums shortly followed until recently I joined the scheme named Business Able, designed especially to help disabled individuals start their own business. I am now looking forward to the future with the exhibition and its success as a business venture and am happy to say that the exhibition is going very well with amazing interest, so much so that we have taken our first booking for the Titanic’s centenary year 2012. My other interests include World War two history, especially the Polish forces (as my grandfather served in the Polish 1 st Armoured Division.) I also enjoy playing my game console and watching movies.
Margot Corson – Exhibition Manager
I became interested in the Titanic just before the release of the 1997 movie of Titanic, and since then have researched in detail passenger and crew biographies, as well as the Ship itself.Having watched most of the films made I think my favourite has to be “A Night to Remember.”My role within the exhibition is varied, although my main duties are overseeing the installation of exhibitions and retail management, but I really do a bit of everything.
I love being involved with the exhibition, as we get to meet so many interesting people during the exhibitions and it gives me a chance to use all the skills I have learned over the years, I love being able to handle artifacts and research the history of them it is an amazing opportunity one which few people will ever experience my favourite role is designing, making and dressing the sets we use in the exhibition, it is nice seeing the end product. Hopefully you will enjoy seeing them as much as I do.
Before we began the exhibition, I worked and studied in Childcare and early years development, I left this work to become Sean’s full time Carer when he unfortunately was diagnosed with his disability. I also, in the little spare time I have, fit in lots of reading, photography and I love watching films, as well as collecting Movie Props from all kind of films and programmes.
