If only the platform had been raised to its proper height.

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The four-storey museum houses more than 12, 500 shoes from different cultures spanning 4, 500 years of history, including pairs of 16th-century Venetian platform shoes known as chopines (which range between 15 and 50cm in height, sometimes too tall for a woman to walk unaccompanied), bear fur boots worn by the Japanese samurai and golden stilettos by modern designer Manolo Blahnik.

BBC: Toronto��s shoe museum has sole

Since 2011, Soapbox Science has been used as a platform to showcase some of the most eminent female scientists in the UK at the height of discovery and innovation.

UNESCO: Soapbox Science: bringing science to the people

At the height of the fire, crews from 10 fire engines and an aerial ladder platform tackled the fire, with warnings given about smoke affecting neighbouring properties.

BBC: Scene of fire