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Posts Tagged: Health and safety

The Baby Cage. It looks quite alarming but presumably it was pretty safe. A flat with no terrace or garden didn’t deter this woman. Instead she built a cage for her baby - the cage hung outside the window. A self built balcony really!

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We’re often amazed at how brave builders used to be working on skyscrapers in the 1920s and onwards until proper safety measures came in. So we made this gallery: http://www.britishpathe.com/gallery/vertigo/ and it remains one of our most popular. Some of the pictures are really quite astonishing.
 

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