How the Hero of the Bridge became its forgotten victim

The 26-year-old from Riverview near Ipswich had twice climbed down the lattice of girders to rescue fellow workmen hanging precariously from the structure, but on the morning of December 6, 1939, nobody could save him.A year earlier, in July 1938, the boilermaker’s assistant had been the first…


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