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regulating the traffic, was
oblivious to what was going
to happen, and that it was her
brother who gave the all-clear
signal from below, after
which she was ‘hoisted’ on to
the bridge. Presumably the
press had been tipped off
about the stunt beforehand.
And what a stunt it was:
diving was still a relatively
new art form in England, and
the country’s first
professional purpose-built