The Winchester Cathedral in Winchester, Hampshire, England.
By 1892, he became a fully qualified deep-water diver.
From these cracks, chunks of stone and concrete fell to the ground.
The foundation of the Winchester Cathedral before repairs.
Original sketch from Fox report to the Dean and Chapter dated 23rd March 1906.
William Walker getting ready for a dive.
An architect Thomas Jackson and a civil engineer named Francis Fox were swiftly brought in.
Then engineer Francis Fox had a brilliant idea.
Why not use a deep-sea diver to do the work?
So William Walker was brought in.
Illustration showing how William Walker worked underwater laying bags of concrete.
Bricklayers were then able to restore the damaged walls.
The Greathead Grouting Machine for pumping air to the diver working underwater.
Workers prepare bags of concrete which William Walker will lay under the foundation of the Cathedral.
Later, Walker was conferred the Royal Victorian Order (MVO).
William Walker died tragically in 1918, after contracting the Spanish Flu.
In 1964, a statuette in Walker’s honor was commissioned.
Apparently, somebody had handed the sculptor the wrong photograph to work from.
The error wasnt corrected until 2001, when a new statue was installed.
A bust of William Walker on the grounds of the Winchester Cathedral.
