3-016-863 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The War in Denmark: Prussian look-out on Broacker Church spire - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864. A '...look-out man climbing the church spire of Broacker to obtain a bird's-eye view of the country around...By opening a door in the side of the steeple, which fell back into a horizontal position and so served as a platform, and by planting a ladder upon it he had got to the top of the steeple; then began the ascent of the finial, and that was more difficult, but its base is an iron ball, looking like a cauldron with the cover on, and upon this he had managed to get and thence firmly to fix two wooden bars, by means of a cord, transversely on the iron rod, forming two steps, which enabled him to reach the ornament before mentioned. Upon this he sat, with one arm round the rod, calmly sweeping the enemy's lines with a long telescope. On the platform of the steeple a soldier lay upon his back looking up at this adventurous climber, and probably transmitting his communications to some one within'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.