Life with Fred (Early Days) part 2 A repeat broadcast from 1995 of the BBC2 series about Bolton Steeplejack Fred Dibnah which was first shown in 1994. Date: Thursday 2nd March 1995
Married three time's was it, some man for one man was Fred. I never taught he would die. He was a great Dinosaur sadly missed. I'm Irish and couldn't get enough of Fred. I grew up with buildings like this in Dublin before they were all torn down. They would have lasted another two hundred year's they were that well built, built to last. RIP Fred 😔☘️
It's Irony really. Fred new it as well.Chimney's are not like trees are they? A little bit of Great Britain lost with every demolition. We are the sewer of the world now. Glad i'm not long for this world. We'll be dug up and wheeled into the sea.
Something really majestic and sad and wonderful at the same time when you see the smoke coming out of the chimney stack one final time. Moments from its death. The amount of times it billowed smoke from 1917 all through those years. Now billowing one final time. It sort of gives a vision what it must have been like in those days when the mills were running. Very dark and foggy even on the clearest of days. Very unique times
Well at least Fred dropped those Chimneys with the most Respect possible. Great man Fred was. R.I.P Fred, u may be gone but u will never be forgotten. One word for Fred, LEGEND. Lots of luv from Florida. 🌴🇺🇸🗽🏴🌴
That was what I find to have been his most amazing chimney drop in his career. The way he calculated the drop and went further into the one side so the chimney would rotate as it fell to guide it to the perfect spot was just incredible. This moreso amazes when thought about the knowledge and tools that were available at that time. Fred was incredibly intelligent and I think that wasn’t always portrayed to the TV audience.
Interesting. In a different Fred Dibnah episode he charged £350 to fall a chimney. In this one he charged £1000. No wonder he had a party in his back garden at the end 😂
Interesting you noticed that. I noticed that throughout most of the 80s and some of the 1990s hiz jackets were rarely seen amongst workers except with construction and industry. Then towards the very late 90s they were suddenly everywhere and worn by nearly every person in a job. Now you get delivery men, marshalls, bin men, postmen, and even kids out on a school trip just to the local park wearing the bloody things. I think they make people wear them because it acts as a kind of deterrent or authority status, and sadly some people who wear them in their job seem to think they have some kind of authority over someone else and think can push people about when its suits them. I find them very communistic.
Fred was a special kinda guy. No way would my wife let my home garden be so cluttered. I have a shop but nothing can spill out.....nothing. I'm jealous.
@@mommymilestones I think I'll just be jealous instead. First she owns our NC Christmas Tree farm and I like driving the tractor's. Second, she owns all 3 of our Homes, and third she's the Senior Controlling Interest Partner in the Bank her parents left her. And finally if I wanted a bigger shop she'd have one built for me. She might get rid of me ( married since '69 and I'm 72 ) but I'd never get rid of her. Never.
My Mum is from up North. her Mum and Dad ran a gym together from what she has told me. she has told me that they saw Fred take down another Mill Chimney near by. they saw him coming along the road driving his steam roller or red Land rover
That music at the end lol ^^ Almost like the music in the hobbit party in LOTR 1 ^^ Expect a tall bony dude with a grey cape showing up dancing any minute ^^
Aye you were right fred about manual work, my dad got me a Saturday morning job at the local scrappy, 8 till 12, mostly loading skips or using the mechanical guillotine to cut the scrap metal into shorter bits to fit in the skips, this was roundabout 1973, I was 12, and for the shift I got £1, doesn't seem much now,but it was enough for my younger brother and one or two of the mates to walk the mile distance, and be waiting at the scrap yard gates for me finishing at 12, haha, later on I did a year at job creation,£29, a week, then I started work as a house delivery coal man, back when EVERY, house etc,had coal fires, hand bagging the coal dumped by lorries in the coal rea\ yard, or out of the coal wagons that came into the yard by rail, having to light big fires underneath them, especially when they had came up from some of the pits in the north of England in the really cold winter's we seemed to get years ago, because when you opened the wagon doors the coal was frozen solid and stuck together like sticky toffee, and the same with the bags if they'd been bagged the night before, trying to empty the bags into the bunkers, especially the old Hessian bags, haha, then the gas and electric central heating and smokeless coal were brought in, smaller coal merchants eventually selling the business to bigger merchants etc, after working a few years here for one merchant and few for another couple, the smokeless coal was done away with and everywhere went gas, I was made redundant after 17 years, I then worked in a sheet metal factory for 4, years, made redundant again after the work went to china, I then did a mature apprenticeship in bricklaying,13, years all in , but like fred,I smoked and now at nearly 62, I was diagnosed with peripheral arterial disease, which I've been blaming on the hip replacement I was meant to get 6 years ago, just kept plodding away till I knew the hip pain wasn't what was causing the agony when I walked continually for less than a minute, anyway I've to get a stent put in my groin, hopefully give me a bit of mobility again, when I saw the vascular surgeon I promised him I would be a nonsmoker the next time I saw him,came home and basically continued smoking,then out of the blue an appointment came through to see the surgeon, it came round about the 25th of January and I remembered the promise, and decided to stop on the first of February, my appointment was for the 8th, that way I could tell the surgeon I had stopped on the 1st, which I did and thankfully I am still a non smoker today 22nd of February,21 days, and the secret is when you can convince yourself that it's you're choice, nobody is forcing me to stop, and when you finally get the, learned over decades common sense working it's that simple, but, just like fred,it gets us all in the end up, but hard work also kept the weight of me , never more than 11 1\2, stone haha, R.I.P. FRED you were and still ARE a legend of our time.
I said in my previous comment that I was going into hospital to get a stent put in, I didn't get one,I got 4, 3on the bad side and one on the supposedly good side, I was a bit sore for a couple of days, scared to even cough incase the pressure blew out the angio plugs on both sides of my groin, haha, but it's made a great difference in my walking after nearly 4 years of pain, I've still got the bike I bought about 18 months ago and never got to use so roll on the nice weather.
@@ianhawdon3680 I ended up getting 4 stents,3 in the bad side, and 1 on the side I thought was ok, I can walk not a bad distance before the original hip pain kicks in, only now it's both hips, haha, but I can still walk basically normal, so that's the main thing, the hips will do me fine, the pains nothing compared to walking on dry muscle's,as the blockages were in my side and my right leg hadn't been getting a blood supply, I remember last year, transferring 2tons of garden chips from the front of the house to the back, I had a wheelbarrow at the back kitchen door, and was filling a 5litre emulsion tub and walking straight through the front door and out to the back, just a short distance, not even 20 steps and having to stop every 2 tubs, in agony with the pain in my right leg, right down and over my foot, life the pain you get with cramp, but worse, even moving from side to side the pain moved with you're leg, a weird pain compared to other pain, even crouching to paint skirting etc, for seconds was sore, but the surgeon said that was because my leg muscles when I was walking etc, hadn't been getting blood for over 3 years but thankfully now I can at least walk a normal distance and get out and about, and last but not least, what seemed so easy for a couple of months, now seems so hard, the smoking, back smoking like one of Fred's factory chimneys again, but maybe another day haha, thanks for liking my we story about my working life, I'd like to do it all over again, wouldn't change a thing, even the freezing cold conditions in the cold winters, because the long war summers made up for it haha, cheers mate.
Yep , at 12 , if you wanted a pair of boots or an inner tube for the push bike you had a job . Proved that hard graft is a good foundation to life . Fred was the proof in the pudding 👍🇬🇧
These videos were recorded onto VHS from BBC2 when the series was broadcast in the early 90s, they weren't copied "off screen" with a camera pointing at the screen. The quality is down to the VHS quality and due to the tape wear and tear over the years as alot of my recordings have suffered quite badly over the years through various factors. I captured them in the best possible quality so not to lose too much. There is nothing illegal about the videos.
I've not figured out how the have pictures from earth of the moons surface clear as a bell but we have CCTV images where in broad daylight you can't read a license plate from 60 feet. EDIT: Forgot to thank you for sharing this video Dag Jab
Analogue VHS at 240 lines resolution was a very basic recording quality available on domestic machines, the original broadcast quality tapes and Umatic machines were very expensive and weighed half a ton, I know I had a pair to edit my Umatic tapes. Sony Betamax was better quality-then came S-VHS at nearly double the resolution -400 lines and onwards until eventually digital media. Greetings from Tasmania Australia-Southern Cross Observatory-42 South.
Married three time's was it, some man for one man was Fred. I never taught he would die. He was a great Dinosaur sadly missed. I'm Irish and couldn't get enough of Fred. I grew up with buildings like this in Dublin before they were all torn down. They would have lasted another two hundred year's they were that well built, built to last. RIP Fred 😔☘️
Yes rest easy to the number one Mad Lad
It's Irony really. Fred new it as well.Chimney's are not like trees are they?
A little bit of Great Britain lost with every demolition.
We are the sewer of the world now.
Glad i'm not long for this world.
We'll be dug up and wheeled into the sea.
Aye
If he had a job at the Guinness factory that would be job of a lifetime.
Why on earth are them two wearing hard hats health and safety gone mad
Something really majestic and sad and wonderful at the same time when you see the smoke coming out of the chimney stack one final time. Moments from its death. The amount of times it billowed smoke from 1917 all through those years. Now billowing one final time. It sort of gives a vision what it must have been like in those days when the mills were running. Very dark and foggy even on the clearest of days. Very unique times
The way Fred does it, that stack gets to blow smoke one last time. It gets to me every time I see it.
Well at least Fred dropped those Chimneys with the most Respect possible. Great man Fred was. R.I.P Fred, u may be gone but u will never be forgotten. One word for Fred, LEGEND. Lots of luv from Florida. 🌴🇺🇸🗽🏴🌴
Imminent death: Fred: "time we boogered off... Blow the bloody 'orn!!!"
That was what I find to have been his most amazing chimney drop in his career. The way he calculated the drop and went further into the one side so the chimney would rotate as it fell to guide it to the perfect spot was just incredible. This moreso amazes when thought about the knowledge and tools that were available at that time. Fred was incredibly intelligent and I think that wasn’t always portrayed to the TV audience.
U could watch Fred on repeat 24 hours a day
I watch them at least 4 times a year, i always come back to watch them.
What a fascinating man Fred is been watching him on UA-cam for three days 🇦🇺👍👍
What a man!! Sadly missed !
Fred was hard as nails.Different but better times back then.
Interesting. In a different Fred Dibnah episode he charged £350 to fall a chimney. In this one he charged £1000. No wonder he had a party in his back garden at the end 😂
His line drawings of buildings were fantastic.
You can see in this one we are getting into the modern era of health and safety... Hi-Fiz jackets and helmets etc.
Interesting you noticed that. I noticed that throughout most of the 80s and some of the 1990s hiz jackets were rarely seen amongst workers except with construction and industry. Then towards the very late 90s they were suddenly everywhere and worn by nearly every person in a job. Now you get delivery men, marshalls, bin men, postmen, and even kids out on a school trip just to the local park wearing the bloody things. I think they make people wear them because it acts as a kind of deterrent or authority status, and sadly some people who wear them in their job seem to think they have some kind of authority over someone else and think can push people about when its suits them. I find them very communistic.
Fred was a special kinda guy. No way would my wife let my home garden be so cluttered. I have a shop but nothing can spill out.....nothing. I'm jealous.
Im looky got a garage to mess with things but it's not big enough some times pal
@@mommymilestones I think I'll just be jealous instead. First she owns our NC Christmas Tree farm and I like driving the tractor's. Second, she owns all 3 of our Homes, and third she's the Senior Controlling Interest Partner in the Bank her parents left her. And finally if I wanted a bigger shop she'd have one built for me. She might get rid of me ( married since '69 and I'm 72 ) but I'd never get rid of her. Never.
Love this
The wife of this era was so annoying, dont know what he seen in her.
A True Gentleman a Legend taken to soon Really missed
Rest easy Mad Lad
apart from the crappy music at the end in freds garden which is so irritating, great video.
Glad to find Fred and all his work on the Tube, Me ancestors were mule spinner operators in Manchester a very long time ago.
I think Fred was a definitely a Northern Gentleman.
A REAL character!!
Not all Fred one still stands
The music at the end was amazing
LEGEND.
The Second Law: Good goes to Bad.
Which is, in fact, reversible . . . kinda.
Fred was laughing outside for the cameras but crying inside 😢
She went with dignity...the chimney that is!
My Mum is from up North. her Mum and Dad ran a gym together from what she has told me. she has told me that they saw Fred take down another Mill Chimney near by. they saw him coming along the road driving his steam roller or red Land rover
Thanks for sharing (from des7uk)
He put it up, he also took it down.
Brilliant.
That music at the end lol ^^ Almost like the music in the hobbit party in LOTR 1 ^^ Expect a tall bony dude with a grey cape showing up dancing any minute ^^
Yeah....lol
Brilliant
Best of times worst of times
man. what a night that would have been. Fred followed by TopGear.
Haha defo
is it just me or is Fred wearing his pocket watch at the end
😎😎👍
What irony he worked on something that should have lasted a lifetime, then at the end he tore it down himself l.
Aye you were right fred about manual work, my dad got me a Saturday morning job at the local scrappy, 8 till 12, mostly loading skips or using the mechanical guillotine to cut the scrap metal into shorter bits to fit in the skips, this was roundabout 1973, I was 12, and for the shift I got £1, doesn't seem much now,but it was enough for my younger brother and one or two of the mates to walk the mile distance, and be waiting at the scrap yard gates for me finishing at 12, haha, later on I did a year at job creation,£29, a week, then I started work as a house delivery coal man, back when EVERY, house etc,had coal fires, hand bagging the coal dumped by lorries in the coal rea\ yard, or out of the coal wagons that came into the yard by rail, having to light big fires underneath them, especially when they had came up from some of the pits in the north of England in the really cold winter's we seemed to get years ago, because when you opened the wagon doors the coal was frozen solid and stuck together like sticky toffee, and the same with the bags if they'd been bagged the night before, trying to empty the bags into the bunkers, especially the old Hessian bags, haha, then the gas and electric central heating and smokeless coal were brought in, smaller coal merchants eventually selling the business to bigger merchants etc, after working a few years here for one merchant and few for another couple, the smokeless coal was done away with and everywhere went gas, I was made redundant after 17 years, I then worked in a sheet metal factory for 4, years, made redundant again after the work went to china, I then did a mature apprenticeship in bricklaying,13, years all in , but like fred,I smoked and now at nearly 62, I was diagnosed with peripheral arterial disease, which I've been blaming on the hip replacement I was meant to get 6 years ago, just kept plodding away till I knew the hip pain wasn't what was causing the agony when I walked continually for less than a minute, anyway I've to get a stent put in my groin, hopefully give me a bit of mobility again, when I saw the vascular surgeon I promised him I would be a nonsmoker the next time I saw him,came home and basically continued smoking,then out of the blue an appointment came through to see the surgeon, it came round about the 25th of January and I remembered the promise, and decided to stop on the first of February, my appointment was for the 8th, that way I could tell the surgeon I had stopped on the 1st, which I did and thankfully I am still a non smoker today 22nd of February,21 days, and the secret is when you can convince yourself that it's you're choice, nobody is forcing me to stop, and when you finally get the, learned over decades common sense working it's that simple, but, just like fred,it gets us all in the end up, but hard work also kept the weight of me , never more than 11 1\2, stone haha, R.I.P. FRED you were and still ARE a legend of our time.
Interesting
I said in my previous comment that I was going into hospital to get a stent put in, I didn't get one,I got 4, 3on the bad side and one on the supposedly good side, I was a bit sore for a couple of days, scared to even cough incase the pressure blew out the angio plugs on both sides of my groin, haha, but it's made a great difference in my walking after nearly 4 years of pain, I've still got the bike I bought about 18 months ago and never got to use so roll on the nice weather.
Lovely reading story thank you
@@ianhawdon3680 I ended up getting 4 stents,3 in the bad side, and 1 on the side I thought was ok, I can walk not a bad distance before the original hip pain kicks in, only now it's both hips, haha, but I can still walk basically normal, so that's the main thing, the hips will do me fine, the pains nothing compared to walking on dry muscle's,as the blockages were in my side and my right leg hadn't been getting a blood supply, I remember last year, transferring 2tons of garden chips from the front of the house to the back, I had a wheelbarrow at the back kitchen door, and was filling a 5litre emulsion tub and walking straight through the front door and out to the back, just a short distance, not even 20 steps and having to stop every 2 tubs, in agony with the pain in my right leg, right down and over my foot, life the pain you get with cramp, but worse, even moving from side to side the pain moved with you're leg, a weird pain compared to other pain, even crouching to paint skirting etc, for seconds was sore, but the surgeon said that was because my leg muscles when I was walking etc, hadn't been getting blood for over 3 years but thankfully now I can at least walk a normal distance and get out and about, and last but not least, what seemed so easy for a couple of months, now seems so hard, the smoking, back smoking like one of Fred's factory chimneys again, but maybe another day haha, thanks for liking my we story about my working life, I'd like to do it all over again, wouldn't change a thing, even the freezing cold conditions in the cold winters, because the long war summers made up for it haha, cheers mate.
Yep , at 12 , if you wanted a pair of boots or an inner tube for the push bike you had a job . Proved that hard graft is a good foundation to life . Fred was the proof in the pudding 👍🇬🇧
"Pull the bloody arm! - From Fred"
Great man, non like him now 🇬🇧🙏
I think he said "Blow the bloody horn!"
A great pity that all these videos are of such poor technical quality, being merely copied "off-screen" (illegally, one assumes).
These videos were recorded onto VHS from BBC2 when the series was broadcast in the early 90s, they weren't copied "off screen" with a camera pointing at the screen. The quality is down to the VHS quality and due to the tape wear and tear over the years as alot of my recordings have suffered quite badly over the years through various factors. I captured them in the best possible quality so not to lose too much. There is nothing illegal about the videos.
One assumed wrong there Bruce.
I've not figured out how the have pictures from earth of the moons surface clear as a bell but we have CCTV images where in broad daylight you can't read a license plate from 60 feet.
EDIT: Forgot to thank you for sharing this video Dag Jab
Quite , Bruce
Analogue VHS at 240 lines resolution was a very basic recording quality available on domestic machines, the original broadcast quality tapes and Umatic machines were very expensive and weighed half a ton, I know I had a pair to edit my Umatic tapes. Sony Betamax was better quality-then came S-VHS at nearly double the resolution -400 lines and onwards until eventually digital media. Greetings from Tasmania Australia-Southern Cross Observatory-42 South.
The guy new what he was doing great guy