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Revamp hopes for Titanic memorial (England)

Plans to revamp a memorial to Jack Phillips, chief telegraphist on The Titanic, will go before a public meeting in Godalming on Thursday.

The organisers want to refurbish the memorial, built in 1914, in time for the 2012 centenary of the sinking of the ship on its maiden voyage.

The Grade II-listed Phillips Memorial Cloister is the largest of any built to remember a single Titanic victim.

Read entire article at BBC