Eye - 22 February 2013

From centenarians to bombings

by Eye 22nd February 2013

Sidcot centenarian celebrates

Nancy Woodhead, a former Sidcot School pupil whose father died on the Titanic, recently celebrated her 100th birthday.

Nancy was born eight months after her father, Frank Maybery, died on 15 April 1912 when the Titanic sank. He was on the Titanic to tie up business interests in Moose Jaw, Canada, where he and his wife Ella had once emigrated. They had returned to England when Frank, aged thirty-six, bought a second class ticket for the so-called ‘unsinkable’ ocean liner. Ninety per cent of men in second class died due to a lack of lifeboats.