| At one point, a police officer moonlighting as a steeplejack fell and injured his spine when the flagpole he had been hired to fix cracked. |
| He saw that the steeplejack had now reached the point where his work was waiting for him, work that required nerve and courage. |
| But it was our steeplejack, James Huneker, who was our pioneer watcher of the skies. |
| The celebrity steeplejack started building a fully-working Victorian mineshaft behind his house in Radcliffe Road, Bolton, without asking permission. |
| Blixie Bimber liked him because he was a steeplejack, a little, but more because he was a whistler. |
| His grandmother was a widow whose steeplejack husband had died in a tragic accident, and who subsequently lost two of her four sons in the war. |
