DKL
06-01-2012, 01:34 AM
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A Slippery Ledge
On Sunday August 2, 1908, window cleaner Robert Stevenson died in his bed at the Northern Hospital. The day before Robert, a window cleaner, had been busily washing the panes of the Cotton Exchange in Old Hall Street. As he was standing high upon one of the buildings many ledges he slipped, and his usual failsafe, a security belt roped to a railing, snapped causing the forty-eight-year-old to plummet to the flagstones some twenty-five feet below. A fractured leg and several other injuries immediately sent Robert into the care of medics, but he would only survive for twenty-four hours longer.
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A Slippery Ledge
On Sunday August 2, 1908, window cleaner Robert Stevenson died in his bed at the Northern Hospital. The day before Robert, a window cleaner, had been busily washing the panes of the Cotton Exchange in Old Hall Street. As he was standing high upon one of the buildings many ledges he slipped, and his usual failsafe, a security belt roped to a railing, snapped causing the forty-eight-year-old to plummet to the flagstones some twenty-five feet below. A fractured leg and several other injuries immediately sent Robert into the care of medics, but he would only survive for twenty-four hours longer.
More... (http://danielklongman.tumblr.com/post/24133178190)