Titanic launch into Belfast Harbour (1911), fit out and beginning of voyage to Southampton (1912).

[@irishmikester]

Fabulous images put together to bring you back to Belfast back in the day!

[@KevinGrayWrites]

What a great resource. This is a side of the Titanic that students have trouble grasping-the promise and the grandeur of it. This video is excellent primary source material!

[@seedlingeducation]

Hi Kevin, thanks for the kind comment. This story uses more of these images to conjure up what it was like for a 12 year old apprentice to work on the great ship's construction myyarns.org/blog/games/an-apprentices-tale-2/. The story is told using the Ulster-Scots vernacular common here in Northern Ireland at the time and to this day.

[@KevinGrayWrites]

@@seedlingeducation This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing the link. So interesting to see the overlap between the Ulster-Scots vernacular and the English we speak today.

[@seedlingeducation]

@@KevinGrayWrites There's quite a few folk over here who still speak like that.

[@garymorris1856]

Wonderful photographs

[@tonywoods4759]

Fantastic images in very high definition. It feels like recent footage some of the pictures are so clear - what an amazing time.

[@seedlingeducation]

It really is! We pulled together various shots from the NMNI archive collection, including the aewsome sequence of the titanic hull launch.

[@seedlingeducation]

Thanks Tony. Many of these images have been seen before but never at this quality. Check out this story from My Yarns (myyarns.org/blog/games/an-apprentices-tale-2/) to see more of the images taken during the building of Titanic. The story is from the perspective of a young apprentice working at Harland & Wolff and is told using the Ulster-Scots vernacular common here in Northern Ireland.

[@tonywoods4759]

@@seedlingeducation wow - more amazing images and the story is cool

[@Judith-cu2er]

This touched my heart. So evocative. Well done, Seedling! To all you teachers out there, I highly recommend that you check out this wonderful resource. ❤

[@seedlingeducation]

Thank you Judith. Yes, My Yarns (www.myyarns.org) provides Key Stage 2 teachers a resource that enables them to discuss the Victorians, Titanic and World War I in the context of storytelling, writing and the Ulster-Scots language.

[@seedlingeducation]

The images featured in this video are from the archives of National Museums Northern Ireland. They have been cleaned and sharpened but not changed for the Ulster-Scots Educational Project www.myyarns.org. As a result, we were able to animate the sequence from the Kempster Collection known as "Going, going, gone" that documents the Titanic sliding down the slip way into Belfast Harbour. This video attempts to recreate the atmosphere and spectacle of the launch, Titanic's subsequent fit-out and departure from Belfast almost one year later.

[@riche4118]

This video is excellent and a valuable addition to the 'My Yarns' resource. 'My Yarns' is an engaging teaching and learning resource for Primary schools, providing teachers and learners with a range of stimulus materials and activities on historical themes. The curriculum based teaching and learning activities are excellent and the production quality is of the highest standard.

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[@ASTROBIKERSHORTS]

1:05 that’s queen Mary photo

[@seedlingeducation]

Yes, we think you are correct we have inadvertently used a 2 second shot of the Queen Mary travelling up Belfast lough much later in the Century. It does however provide a flavour of what it was like to watch these great ships leave our port.

[@shelty3178]

1:06 not titanic, looks like one of the queens

[@seedlingeducation]

Hi Shelty, thank you for your comment. We have used the key construction and launch images of the Titanic from the archive however the crowd scene (1:04-1:06) looks like it is from the launch of another ship constructed in Belfast around that time. This was a genuine mistake on our part we are sorry if it spoiled your enjoyment of the video.