A Year with Fred - A Beautiful Pile of Bricks (part 1)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- A Year with Fred (A beautiful Pile of Bricks) part 1
A repeat broadcast from 1991 of the BBC2 series about Bolton Steelplejack Fred Dibnah.
Date: Thursday 15th August 1991
Great tribute to Donald first time ive see this for years
It was..Donald was a diamond!
Hope he had a great retirement
Anyone know what happened to Donald and if he’s still alive today?
@@MikeBeSafeI would say with a great degree of certainty, that he will have passed away by now. Fred would be 86 this year, and he was at least 20 years younger than Donald. There aren't many 106 year old men living.
Excellent tribute
I work at chimneys and this man is my hero i watch these programs over and over again especially when ive had a bad day,
OMG he's just standing there free hand painting that chimney. Taking a smoke. What a legend.
I'm surprised the yanks have taken an interest in Fred. There's a few of those "reaction" videos on youtube from American's watching Fred's chimney climbing and how amazed they are watching him climb. To think people from other countries are showing such admiration for Fred more than people in the UK do, half the people in Bolton wouldn't know who Fred Dibnah was.
@@Embracing01I can attest Fredis as big Alegent on this side of the old pond as he is there at least to me he is. True hero he was.
Fantastic uploads of “a year with Fred” Dag Jab, there’s been a lot of people and fans alike that have been searching for this series of Fred programs, what a great find 👍👍
Thanks. I thought it strange that noone else has bothered to upload the full episodes of these series, but maybe they have and youtube have been deleting them (wouldn't surprise me).
How he lived as long as he did is amazing,,my nerves are gone just watching this
£650 to knock that building down. Fast forward to today. It would be a team of Health & Safety men, a dozen demolition men. the area would be sealed off, it would cost tens of thousands.
Yet there was Fred and Donald. Hammer & Chisel. Props, firewood, tyres and A couple of gallon of diesel. How things have changed!
Better to have health and safety than not, as H&S was 5 years old when the first Fred documentary launched.
That was still well over a month's wages back then , to some two or three months . It would take Fred three or four days to get it to fire lighting stage .
Never seen this one before...brilliant love Fred , and the characters that he's worked with...listening to Fred is like some kind of bloody therapy for the nogin..❤
Thanks for uploading these videos, there's plenty of new footage I've never seen before.
Cheers, no probs. Wish the quality was better, most of the recordings have suffered over the years. It's strange I'm the only one who has uploaded the full eps of this series, must be loads of others who have these episodes and in better condition, but for some reason they don't bother uploading them.
@@Embracing01 I'm not 100% sure, but I think there might be two version of this series, because I distinctly remember seeing some parts of these videos but not others, either way it's great to have these versions uploaded!!
Every time I watch one of Fred's videos like this one, I go weak in the nether regions! What an iconic guy!
Thanks for uploading these. Fred was a legend
No probs
Again good job iv not seen this before
You just have to admire this man a genius and fearless and the way he erects scaffold single handed it’s mind blowing to say the least the ladder alone hammered into the chimney is a work of art and for him to do that amount of seriously dangerous work
And not have any serious falls .let’s face it his first mistakes his last ….that man is a legend in his line of work an absolute legend
When Fred comments on the last one being a disaster it was Larburnum Mill at Atherton in 1984 the tower had broke in two instead of it coming down in one piece Though it did eventually come down but Fred was disheartened slightly that it didn’t go to plan.
As the Bowtners would say...”a reet gam bugger”...our Fred what a legend. Thanks for the uploads...belting 👍🏻
Cheers, no probs:)
Fred is my hero.
..and mine!!!
Yes. Mine too really
Walter Forshaw driving a hard bargain! Great footage of the Bolton of 35, 40 years ago. The chimneys in the valley beyond the Dart did go, and Threlfalls still stands.
Magic.
Worked for Harry Forshaw in the early 90s at Kent Mill Chadderton and Fred dropped the 180ft chimney there but the back end buckled and sent the brickwork at the bottom crash through the perimeter wall
RIP Donald and Fred together again in the smoking stacks in the sky
It would of been my first and last day working with Fred after trying to sit up there
£650 to demolish an entire factory building. A demolition company today would charge that today as an admin fee!
So Donald had balls of steel aswell it would seem
A brave man
Salop Street Bolton first chimney on this video . Threlfall Chimney is still there .
Donald his right hand man
'RIGHT DONALD'
Has the threlfall chimney been repaired and repainted since Fred did it?
Fred maces stunt men look daft😂
My god £650 for all that work
It’s about £4000 nowadays
@@brosephyolonarovichstalin2915still hardly anything for the amount of work
I have worked 200 footers scared
What is the name of that Square mill?
Dart Mill, part of the Denvale Complex
Union Road, Tonge Moor
Bolton, Lancs.
3.30.mins Ronnie's got some bottle. 🤔👍🇫🇷🇫🇷
Legend....don't.make um like this any more
Can hardly watch it. Balls of steel.
Dose he have any SUPORT
NO
He would get to rely on it to much 😂
When men were men and boys were boys
Ripped off Fred.
The guy gets up there and it's already painted. Fred says what in the bloody hell are you doing up here? Go get us a couple of pints.🤙
Does anyone where the tracking button is on this UA-cam?