☞The Man Who Saved Winchester Cathedral…
☞The Man Who Saved Winchester Cathedral… ☞Today in History -- On today’s date 153 years ago, Thursday, October 21, 1869, William Walker (1869-1918), noted Victorian-Era English diver who became famous for shoring up the southern & eastern sides of Winchester Cathedral, was born at Newington, Surrey, England. Born William Robert Bellenie, around the turn of the 20th Century he adopted the name William Bellenie-Walker, eventually dropping the Bellenie part to be known as Walker. ☞In 1887, Walker began diver training at Portsmouth Dockyard. He worked through the roles of diver's attendant & diver’s signal man, passing his medical exam & deep-water test to qualify as a deep-water diver in 1892. ☞In his time, William Walker was the most experienced diver of Siebe Gorman Ltd. Between 1906 & 1911, working in water up to a depth of six metres (20 feet), he shored up Winchester Cathedral, using more than 25,800 bags of concrete, 114,900 concrete blocks, & 900,000 bricks...