The Titanic Memorial Bandstand in Ballarat was designed by local architect, G.W. Clegg and manufactured at the Eagle Foundry in Dana Street. A silhouette of the ship forms part of the weather vane on top. The plaque reads:
MEMORIAL TO
BANDSMEN OF
SS TITANIC 1913
The Victorian Band Association provided the funds to erect a bandstand in memory of the gallant body of men who stood playing sacred music (Nearer My God to Thee) on the deck of the Titanic as this liner slowly sank in the Gulf of St Lawrence after a collision with an iceberg. The Titanic was the largest ship in the world and believed to be the safest ship afloat. Of approximately 2,200 passengers there were 705 survivors.
The Titanic Memorial Bandstand, erected in Sturt Street in 1915, is one of only two memorials in Australia to the bandsmen who went down with the ill-fated liner.
Broken Hill
Sturt Park features The Titanic Memorial in memory of the bandsmen of the Titanic who kept playing in the hope of maintaining calm while the ship went down in 1912. The broken column is not an unrepaired accident but an ancient Greek symbol of being cut down in youth.
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