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Keep up to dateHolding a net curtain and balancing on a plank of wood that's resting on a folding canopy above the shop front...
...while the second man standing on the ladder would also have been wiped out if the canopy had opened!
Tom Weale sent the picture to Building.
It makes you wonder - are people actually trained on some sites to shimmy up scaffold poles
Thanks to Robin Whalley for this picture, which he took in a few years ago.
No upscale Victorian terrace extension is worth risking life and limb
Pair put pen to paper after beginning discussions in summer
65 Gresham Street plan includes outdoor workspace on every floor
Scheme is most significant revamp of grade A-listed building since it opened in 1983
