As part of its neighbourhoods improvement programme for council residential buildings Southampton City Council worked with Media Workshop, a locally based community arts organisation in the city, to create a series of different tiled murals to decorate parts of the Holyrood Estate's blocks.  One of the murals tells the story of the Titanic's stevedores. 

Some of the other murals depict important scenes related to the city including the Cunard (White Star) liner RMS Queen Mary, sailing vessels, the Mayflower, the Supermarine Spitfire, the nearby Sailor's (Holyrood) Church, Southampton at war, and a symbolic handshake above the Royal Pier gatehouse recognising Southampton as "The Gateway to the World". 

The murals can be seen from Queensway and Orchard Lane on the eight residential blocks at the corner of Orchard Lane.

The Titanic Stevedore Mural carries the following inscription:

The Titanic Stevedore
The Stevedores played a vitally important role in the loading and unloading of ships in Southampton over many, many year. They were the backbone of the maritime industry, from Medieval merchant ships to the luxury liners of the 20th century. When the Titanic sailed from Southampton, how many could have foreseen the tragedy that would unfold in the early hours of Sunday the 15th of April 1912?
The streets North of the docks homed many of the Stevedores, ship workers and crew members of the great liners and the loss of the Titanic had a great impact on the lives of those families and the area as a whole.

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