Description: WA Slater was the photographer for the Derbyshire Times who volunteered to climb up the 'Crow Hole' of the spire, then climb up the ladders on the outside of the roof to the weather vain to take pictures for the newspaper. He records that he used a 'Thornton Pickard' quarter plate camera and afterwards took pictures which his personal camera, some of which can be seen on this site here along with the images taken for the newspaper (see DCHQ504871-504879).