1st class dining-room doors

[John White]

Been doing a bit of research today and with much help from Daniel Klistoner in Australia, one of the worlds authority's on Olympic, it has been discovered that my 1st class doors actually come form the 1st class dining room.
They were service doors to and from the pantry and used by crew. Obviously the elaborate side was inside the dining room with the plain oak side facing the pantry.

Daniel states:

Ok, now I promised I'd look into the door. As I suspected, almost no photos face in that direction so getting a good image is almost impossible. There's a post card from the late 1920's or early 30's which shows the room after the 1928/1929 redecoration. In the background, you can see one of those doors. The door seen here was originally meant to be a service door from the pantry, but as the well-known story goes, it was found that the two sets of doors (on each side) just ourboard of the funnel casing were perfectly sufficient in servicing the Dining Room effectively. As such, the more outboard doors were permanently closed, painted over and extra tables were placed there to increase capacity. Due to the extra 'corridor' that was built (leading to the working service doors), you cannot see them, but they were the same as the white ones seen in the paneling. These working service doors were not painted - perhaps the door that you have is one of these doors, but with some details having been painted since.

I've also attached another photo of the doors leading from the DR to the Reception Room. They had the wrought iron and glass panels, but you can recognise some familiar details, including the handles and the 'direction' plate (i.e. push/pull).

Thanks Daniel, another mystery solved.

John

[Frances]

Following the left hand row of lights to the rear, the door is at the end,slightly to the left. see close up shot below.



This shot shows the other side of the dining room showing off the doors which led into the reception room, identical to the ones WSM has apart from the top panel is replaced with wrought iron work and glass.



The door can be clearly seen in this image, although painted white, the design is very clear. thanks to Daniel Klistoner for finding the images and to Frances James for posting them on the site for me.

John

[David Lawrence]

John
Ive got pictures of these doors when i went to Cameron film set do you want me to email them over for site

[John White]

let me think about it!...... I,ve thought about it! YES PLEAAE MATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

John