Photo-a-Day  (Thursday, 10th April, 2025)

Scaffolding is a real art and you have to have bravery and guts to go so high.
Erecting Scaffolding is taken for granted and vital to carry out work at a very high level.
I know I couldn't do it.

Great photo Colin ! Someone had to do a bit of thinking to work the scaffolding out.
I am glad enough money has been raised for the repairs.

Awesome and historic .

Looks like Apollo 11 in the gantry . Perhaps they 'go' as the astronauts did .

I am imagining when these churches were first built with open timber frames and wooden ladders and simple rope pulleys and baskets to haul stones up or down.

To be honest I’m more in awe of the original men who built churches in the first place. No state of the art materials at their disposal. Just imagine how Cathedrals and indeed the Pyramids were built. Having said that I am pleased people still care enough to repair the church and the scaffolding is much safer.

The scaffolding probably cost more than the repairs.

Alan - I was thinking the same.

Just imagine when they built Blackpool Tower in 1894. No scaffolding then.
I would imagine wooden planks tied together with rope. Scary to think.

And we still don’t know how the Great Pyramid at Giza was built 4800 years ago.
It was the tallest man made structure in the world until the Eiffel Tower was built in Paris in 1889.

More than one person fell to their death during the construction of Blackpool Tower in 1894. I'm sure the cost of scaffolding today is worth the money.

According to the Rector, 10 weeks for the scaffolding, 32 weeks to complete the job.

Just exactly how do you straighten a spire ?

Not forgetting the skyscrapers in New York. I remember seeing a workman eating his lunch on a plank with legs dangling in space in the 1920’s on ytube. That made my toes curl….I do have a fear of heights and can only admire these workmen and the likes of Fred Dibnah.

I don't think Alan was been disrespectful Irene. Just pointed out the cost. Today Heath and Safety would step in if people tried to scimp.

I have just been past and they have put up another three platforms not two, so I think they have reached the to as it looks like they could touch the weather vane.

Waste of money !!!!

They did all that at St Catherines in Scholes, they rebuilt the Steeple, and now they are going to close St Catherines, because no one is worshiping there, and it will become derelict and a home for pigeons, feral kids and bad uns from Higher Ince and Scholes.

How do you straighten a spire, easy peasy like screwing the top back on a bottle.

You are such a snob Sir Bobby no brain.
We all know who you really are.

Jay, Irene wasn't taking a pop at me.
I fully understand what she meant.

Jay, I didn't mean for one moment that Alan or anyone else commenting on the scaffolding meant to be disrespectful and I apologise sincerely if my comment about Blackpool Tower sounded as if I was disapproving of anyone else's comments. One of my favourite books, ( a story-book, not a factual book), has a mention of the tower and that's where I learned that more than one man lost his life during its building, and it just stuck in my mind. Funnily enough, we have been to Parbold Hill this afternoon and came back through Standish and it was strange to see "photo-a-day" in front of me!

Poet what they did to straighten St Catherine's Church Spire in Scholes, was to dismantle the whole Spire and rebuild it. They did a marvellous job, but I think its earmarked for closure now.

Sir Bob, I was born and bred in Ince, love the place and still do.
Its people like you who tarnished Ince and Scholes. Grow up.

Thanks Arthur , I had no idea they were rebuilding it. . That will make fascinating watching over the next months.

Yeah ! Chuck a shedload of money at it then close it down ; sounds just about right to me does that Arthur .

I see this morning they have reached the very top with the Union Jack flying triumphantly over head .