1958: Dizzy at 450 Feet | Living with Danger | World of Work | BBC Archive
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- Опубликовано: 6 ноя 2023
- Do you have a phobia of heights? No? Would you like one?
Living with Danger was a TV series centred on folk who were ordinary in every way except one - they risked their lives in the course of their daily work. This episode - The Higher The Fewer - followed the steeplejacks, builders and demolition crews that worked at great heights, often with little more than a ladder and sturdy shoes.
The workers explain how they try to take the danger in their stride, and one crew member shows how he climbs ladders with an injured leg that won’t bend.
Not for the fainthearted.
Excerpt taken from Living With Danger: The Higher the Fewer, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Friday 15 August 1958.
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I had a panic attack 3 seconds into this video
Did your sphincter tighten?
Mine did.
@@thedave7760 there was tightness of the sphinx
Glad to hear "it's as safe as can be"!
My step grandfather worked the crane 🏗️ in this era across London, he was from county Monaghan in Ireland 🇮🇪…he told the greatest stories I ever heard.
wow thats so cool. plz share the stories with us Sharon.
I know stories as well but I won't tell ... it's a secret!😏🤫
My Dad did this sort of work. He was a steeplejack, and one of his favourite jobs was greasing the guy ropes that supported these towers. Starting at the top then sliding down and painting grease on the cable. I'll pass on that one. I keep thinking, one day I'll see my dad in one of this film clips. He started his career as a steeplejack in 1958.
My arse is in my mouth and my legs dropped off never to come back as I lay in a puddle of my own vomit from shear fear . My hat off to you now passed guys
I love that last comment, “It’s as safe as can be”. Not even close!
I can't tell you how much I enjoy all the old footage you post! Thank you!
The background sounds and 'music' make this even more unsettling. Im not too bad with heights but sod this
What about the camera man no one ever mentions them lol
Respect to everyone of those men
These are the skills fred dibnah mastered
Fred Dibnah carried on this legacy. Fred you legend. gone but never forgotten.
Extreme sports weren’t needed then, not when you could have a fun day at work.
It's not the same without John Noakes.
Or shep or a pair of vals old knickers 😅😊
No safety measures whatsoever. Sometimes change is for the better.
I saw a bloke wearing a flat cap. That would break his fall.
We’ve spent around £90 billion on health & safety over the last 25 years… to save a total of 34 lives. Complete madness. Lovely to see normal working men doing a decent day’s work. Long before millions of unwanted foreigners were invited in by our ‘betters’.
To be fair the guy said they were professionals and good at there job with zero accidents…pretty impressive!!! 😂❤
Sometimes safety can breed complacency
@@plweis7203laws made by people who don't know the job
Three Words. Balls of steel!
"it's as safe as can be" LOL
Tough as the nails in their boots. 👍
This is proper hard work. 100% respect. I would be crappin myself
I felt dizzy just watching them, without harnesses 😮
Sod that for a game of soldiers!
Health and Safety 1958 style. 🤣😵💫😨
Common sense some thing they don’t seem to have nowadays on sites to much wacky backy or green 🤔🤔
Spare a thought for the camera man .
just a couple of pins on each ladder segment hammered into brick keeping you from returning to the almighty. Not for me !
They do it as if its nothing 😮
At 5.35 the man leaning out tightening a screw ....
Steeplejacks and steel erectors were never told they can't do their jobs the way they did their jobs in those days . The working man was a different breed back then.
"Where's your CSCS?"
Cameramen back then had to have balls of aluminium and copper to do this kind of filming from the top with heavy cameras running off unreliable batteries!
This documentary is scored and filmed like an A24 horror film.
All the workers are very well spoken compared to the people today
Full marks to the cameramen who followed them up there
Oh I could never do this job
Men..... actual real men. A dying breed. Imagine Eddie izzard doing a show on this.
Eddie is a legend, the man ran 32 marathons in 31 days, and was a good comedian back in the day. What have you done?
Flatcaps and suits. Well of course.
Not ordinary mortals on view here , supermen
Good grief!
Bollocks the size of Bristol that lot
No health and safety required just a head for heights , these men were made of steel, bet their wages were crap too in those days
These men had the job done before modern man got his risk assessment done😂😂
Think also of the BBC cameramen who had to be up there as well. I would rather have done Six Five Special
does something weird to me nuts.
A reel man job 🙃
Can't watch
Even back then there should have been some safety requirements! Total disrespect shown to these workers!
well...they probably got danger money: I bet some of those fellas were on ten-bob a day!!
@@swanvictor887I wonder how longed they lived though?😔
@@swanvictor887I believe danger money was paid at a given height over the nearest flat surface so that would be the scaffold deck therefore extra money kept to a minimum , but the money would have been generally very good
@@MarkStevens8899 well it probably wasn't the heights that got them, more likely the Woodbines....
Wear dem GURLZ at??
Being opressed by da patriachy innit?😂😂😂
They want equal pay, but you never see them doing these difficult and dangerous jobs.