When Leytonstone have their Car Free Day in September, the parish church usually opens up for guided tours, the exciting bit being going up the church tower and having a look down from the top (it is amazing how 'leafy' the place is).
I went a couple of years ago - the spiral staircase is very low, so you had to wear a helmet to protect your head from bumps (being quite tall, this came in handy, as I did indeed bump my head on a low door frame on the way up). We tried again yesterday, but were told they no longer allowed people to the top "for health and safety reasons".
A grim document
9 hours ago
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'bumping your head' & 'health and safety' - hardly likely to be a major problem with Whipps X hospital just round the corner from the Green Man pub! (is it still there - the pub? And the hospital?)
WFW, sure Whipps X is only half a mile away, but if it were something serious it would still take an hour for the ambulance to arrive. The pub is still there and is still a pub.
Amazing how elfinsafetee has rendered undoable the things which had been, up till that stroke of the pen, doable.
Did you see the reference to Health 'n' Safety rules in this article?
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