Pride definitely was a major thing in Belfast. Everyone knew about what was going on at Harland & Wolff, since they employed a large portion of the town. Frances John Parkinson Jr. who's father, Frances John Parkinson Sr. was a woodworker and crafted some of Titanic's elegant doorways, talked about how when his dad heard of the disaster, he ran out the door because he had to buy a copy of this special newspaper and he cried when he read it. Ken Marschall described it very well, saying "Shipbuilding was Belfast at that time".