article_snippet: way Robbie and his two friends spotted a gap in the railings of the Dugdale Bridge and climbed through to the pipe crossing.
article_snippet: Robbie described Robbie as 'an absolutely brilliant child' and that since Robbie passing Robbie house had been 'extremely quiet without Robbie' An inquest at Burnley Coroner's Court was told An inquest at Burnley Coroner's Court was a well known dare among school children to see if school children could walk across the raised cast iron pipe in order to get to the other side of the canal. '
article_snippet: When school children got towards the Dugdale Bridge there were some railings,' Detective Constable Wendy Rothwell of Lancashire Police told the  hearing. '
article_snippet: It's believed one said there was a gap in some railings and climbed through.
article_snippet: It was sometimes a dare to see if school children could walk across.
article_snippet: The three boys decided to walk across, there was a conversation who will go first. '
article_snippet: Listening to the children it seems to be a dare possibly between children.'
article_snippet: Detective Constable Wendy Rothwell of Lancashire Police told An inquest at Burnley Coroner's Court that Robbie went second and Robbie and one of the friends walked with the friends backs to the wall as the friends made the friends way across. '
article_snippet: There were rivets on the pipe which the friends had to step over and The three boys spoke of the pipe being 'a bit slippy.'
article_snippet: Mr Williamson told the inquest that as a child Mr Williamson had crossed the pipe, as had Mr Graham own father, but Mr Graham did not know Robbie had been scaling it.
article_snippet: These unguarded pipe crossings are just an accident waiting to happen.'
highlights_snippet: his was walking across pipe alongside Dugdale Bridge in Burnley .
  
highlights_snippet: Scaling pipe was popular dare that Robbie's father performed as a boy .
  