On 21/02/2018 07:29, MrCheerful wrote:

There should have been a fence !!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-43125839

Of all the miles of docks with which I am familiar in Liverpool, London,
Dover, Manchester, Folkestone, 'Ull and Dublin (let's not even mention
Calais, Ostend, Dunkirk and Boulogne), not one inch has a railing.

Yet people do not overbalance, fall into the water and drown except on
vanishingly rare occasions. One assumes that the idea is that you are
supposed to employ some common sense and judgment and stay away from the
edge, particularly when not planted on one's own two feet.