The Anonymous Widower

Climbing The Shard

It would appear that a group of intrepid climbers have climbed the Shard by London Bridge station. Read the story here in the Belfast Telegraph.

People and especially students have always been doing this.

At Liverpool in the 1960s, I was in a year with Alvin John Slasser, who was usually known as Sean.

One night he climbed the crane of the Catholic Cathedral in Liverpool, which was being built at the time. I suspect that the Shard was taller, although the crane was several metres taller than the cathedral and Sean did claim to have gone right out to the driver’s cabin.

Sadly, Sean is no longer with us.  In the first year of the course he died in a freak climbing accident in I think North Wales.

If there is something tall there, someone will climb it!

It must have affected me greatly, as when C named our second son, he had a middle-name of Shaun. She got the spelling wrong.

April 11, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | News | Building, Cathedral, Children, Death, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool University, The Shard