These fearless gentlemen both clearly had a head for heights - while most of us, one suspects, wouldn't do the job of a steeplejack for love nor money.
From medieval times, as churches and cathedrals sprung up across the land, workers were needed to firstly construct and secondly maintain spires and towers which were built ever taller as architects and builders reached for the skies.
Then as the industrial revolution gathered pace in the 19th century came huge chimney stacks, thousands of them - particularly in Northern England, that pumped smoke and dirt from factories into the air. Readers of a certain age will remember the heart-stopping exploits of Fred Dibnah, the Bolton steeplejack who achieved considerable television fame in the 1970s and 80s, demolishing or repairing towering factory chimneys high up across Lancashire and West Yorkshire.
