List of Heritage Trail Items.
Work in ProgressThe purpose of this Heritage Trail Index is to lists items and provide links to the relevant forum topic, where you can add your comments and photos. The Heritage Trail was a key element of the 1994 Project Lifestyle refit. The aim was to reflect the history and heritage of the Cunard Line and it's ships in a historical exhibition of nautical memorabilia. Source 1994 Project Lifestyle
See also: Heritage Trail amendments 1999 refit
https://www.theqe2story.com/forum/index.php?topic=8466.msg96859#msg96859Two Deck:Midship Lobby:Peter Sutton’s Midship Lobby MuralsSpirit of the AtlanticAsprey Silver ModelD Stairway:Telegraph TrophyNY Ocean Liners Collection outside computer centre"A" Stairway: Carved Wooden Plaque presented to QE2's owners, by the First Sea Lord, Sir John Fieldhouse, in recognition for war service during the Falkland Islands conflict.
One Deck:Commemorative Leather Panel presented to Cunard by Lloyd Werft shipyard on the completion of the re-engining in 1987 This valuable item was located on several locations onboard QE2
1987 to 1994 “D” Stairway Upper Deck
1994 to 1999 “D” Stairway One Deck Heritage Trail item
1999 Chart Room (aft bulkhead)
Quarter Deck:The Mauretania Model (D Stairway)Chart Room Items:Queen Mary PianoBacklit Atlantic chart feature situated above the bar
Chart Chest
Navigation Instruments
Armillary Sphere
Calligraphy Parchment BordersThe Queens Room:Oscar Nemon Bust of Queen Elizabeth IIThe Royal Standards
Quarter Deck Library:Model of Aquitania measuring 1.4 metres long is sectioned to show the interior layout of the shipOil Painting by Samuel Walters of the Cunard ship Cuba
Lido:
Giancarlo Impiglia, Lifestyle Murals commissioned in 1994
Queen Mary Collection on "G" Stairway LandingUpper Deck:Peter Radmore Collection "D" Stairway LandingThe QE2 Samurai - Japanese Armour on board QE2 (D Stairwell)Yacht Club Lobby:Paddle Steamers Asia and Britannia
Samuel Cunard Bust
Boston Cup/Britannia Cup - displayed in cabinet outside Yacht Club. Transferred to QM2 in 2004 Laconia Cup: (G Stairwell)Presented to Hamza Mustafa by QM2 Captain Philpott in 2018Yacht Club: Maritime themed on the America's Cup on display are models and pictures of yachts that have participated in the race.
Boat Deck: “A “StairwayBoat Deck (“A” Stairway) Model of SS Russia
Britannia figurehead (statue) on QE2 “D” StairwayTHE ROYAL PAINTINGS
Two magnificent portraits, both nearly three metres high, of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh by Edward Halliday, and of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Oswald Birley which were originally commissioned for the Caronia and Queen Elizabeth respectively.
"E" StairwayQueen Elizabeth 2 Launch Tapestries - originally located on Quarter Deck D Stairwell then relocated to Boat Deck E stairwell when the Heritage Trail was created in 1994. Stairways Galleries of Art:“A” Stairway artwork (Original to the ship) displayed Deck Four to Boat Deck“E” Stairway:Stairway "E" from Upper Deck down to Two deck were display twenty-eight Cunard Line posters with themes based on the early 20th century ships. In Dubai there is a display of poster art in the QE2 reception area, which is possibly the posters on display on Stairway "E"
"G" Stairway: Aerial photo commemorating the launch hung on the Boat Deck, G Stairway landing. Black and white framed pictures of the launch were also displayed to capture the ship sitting on the slipway, the day the hull of 736 took to the water for the first time.
Marine pictures on display on G Stairway
including works by Stephen Card Marine ArtistHeritage Trail Commissioned Work:Four Elements by Janine Janet commissioned for £4000 and initially placed in the 1969 Grill Restaurant
Project Lifestyle Commissions: Seven artists were commissioned to create major works as part of the refurbishment. The artists were chosen to represent both new and established talent, carrying on a Cunard tradition of commissioning artworks of distinction and freshness. The artists appointed were:
Peter Sutton Four murals depicting the history of Cunard (Midships Lobby).
Jane Human 13 x 5 ft oil-on-canvas mural of Caronia in the Caribbean (Caronia Restaurant).
Althea Wynne 'White Horses' - 10 ft aluminium sculpture (Caronia Restaurant).
Veronique Bour 17 x 5 ft collage to hang as a backdrop to the 15 ft Mauretania model (Quarter deck, D Staircase).
Giancarlo Impiglia Three murals featuring shipboard scenes (two 13 x 5 ft placed between Queens Room and Lido, port and starboard, and one 8 placed in the Pavilion).
John Stobart 24 x 10 oil painting of Britannia (Britannia Grill) and prints of ports (Queens Grill Lounge).
Brody Neuenschwander Calligraphic frieze (Chart Room).
