Crackers! Jacks...
Oo-yar! I don't know how you are about heights, but if I climb a step ladder at home, by the fourth rung I'm clinging on for dear life.
So spare a thought for the Akiens, a fearless family of Belgrave steeplejacks, who, for more than 100 years, scaled Leicester's greatest heights.
Seen here through a telephoto lens in September 1958, three members of the Akiens family, looking very at ease, ascend to giddy heights to inspect a tall factory chimney in Barkby Lane, Leicester, prior to repointing it – all without any safety harnesses.
Strewth. I think I'll stick to the terra firma.
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by bazakiens
Sunday, March 03 2013, 2:01AM
“The 3 men in the picture are my Grandad A.F.B. Akiens, my dad Baden Akiens and my uncle Tom Akiens.”