A VERY HIGH TEA.
LONDON. July 9. Perched on a. narrow platform nearly 350 ft above the City streets, four men yesterday afternoon leisurely enjoyed tea. T''is tea party, the highest ever held in Central London, took place just below the golden ball surmounting St. Paul’s Cathedral and the guest's were the men engaged in washing the ball and cross and fixing new lightning conductors. The tea was brought by one of their number, who descended more than (300 steps to fetch it. His 350 ft climb took him nearly twenty minutes, and if the tea was getting cold lie had a very good excuse. The scaffolding below the hall has been erected primarily to enable workmen to fix four new lightning conductors to the cross. Opportunity wa.s taken of its erection to wash the hall and the cross. The new lightning conductors will renlace the old-fashioned conductors.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1926, Page 4
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148A VERY HIGH TEA. Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1926, Page 4
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