miracle suit swim wear William Hennessey bridge engineer at work high above Bristol\'s Avon Gorge - The only way we could hold back rust in the old days was to rub down the affected area and give her a fresh coat of paint. This isolated the metal from water and oxygen and slowed the process of rusting considerably. Note no safety harness or safety equipment - you needed a head for height\'s to do William\'s job? and the cameraman was even higher to take this rare photograph. In 1867 William Barlow who was one of the contracting engineers for the completion of the Bridge 1862-64, reported to the Institution of Civil Engineers that there had been two deaths during construction. This is the only documented record of which we are aware. Who the two poor souls were and what the circumstances of their deaths were we do not know. December 8, 1864 Hanham\'s Mary Griffiths, who was 21, raced a young man across to become the first member of the public to cross the bridge. The bridge has an evil renown from the number of suicides committed on or near it. ... The Suspension Bridge 1887 the bridge has a total length of 1,352ft - Height (deck level above high water) 245 ft (76 m) It\'s a favourite jump for suicidal persons (if your unlucky the tide is out and you land in the mud) The bridge has a long reputation as a suicide spot. Because of this, dedicated telephones with a direct line to The Samaritans were placed beside the bridge. However, the phones have since been vandalised and there are now only wires dangling from where the phones once hung.
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