Thirty years after the abolition of slavery in the UK, huge crowds gathered to watch Carlos Trower – nicknamed The African Blondin – walk a tightrope in 1864 and 1878. Trower was balancing 100 feet above Rudyard Lake.
I'll see your railway station and raise you a topless underground station - with sparks ....
A working 'day' picture from 1985, about 4am in the morning (when no tube running). I was there to measure the lead exposure of the man 'cutting' the lead painted girder so it could be lifted out. Would have been the Yashica TL Electro, Kodacolor film. This is Mansion House station. Available light and flash.
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