Life with Fred - Spring Again (part 2)
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- Life with Fred (Spring Again) part 2
A repeat broadcast from 1995 of the BBC2 series about Bolton Steeplejack Fred Dibnah which was first shown in March 1994.
Date: Thursday 23rd February 1995
Take me back when we where happy. So true.
Fred's got a different wife and kids in every documentary
54... old fred looked about 68 here bless him. What a character.
It was all that hard graft.
I was born in 1963, as a kid and young man nearly every working class man or woman looked much older than they were. It always makes me laugh seeing the rose tinted spec brigade comment about how much better it was back then compared to now and I agree in terms of it was a slower pace of life and in certain ways simpler but for the working class it was stressful in many other ways and the amount of money they could make was much less than the working class now.
Just go down a street of working class people now and see how many cars are on the street or huge flat screen TV’s in the front room windows. I grew up on a council estate and in the late sixties I think I knew three people on that estate who owned a car and pretty much all of us either had no TV or rented a small B&W set. Electric and gas was paid for by coin meters and I never had new clothes or shoes until I reached my teens. It was in truth a much much harder life back then. Having said all of that I do miss the peace and slower pace.
Hard work ,hard living
He was a hard worker, drinker and smoker,
Died younger then most but lived more then most.
@@yeahnayeah4055 he’d packed in the cigs by the time this program aired.
I just turned 54 last month. Fred is in better shape and more happy with life than I am right now. He brings a smile to my face. One of a kind man for sure.
It's never too late to turn things around. My mum is 67 and got into weight lifting at 64, amazing difference. Life changing.
I don't think he is in better shape and happy with life at the moment, he died on 2004.
@@luke42083 I mean in the film. lol
😂@@StanSwan
@@luke42083 He is more than happy in the next dimension i would think .
People like Fred made our country Great. True hero.
Agreed! My heritage 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 I am 34
Crazy how we are all just here for a while then we are gone forever
And in our short time the world is ruled by maniacs
The earth would be over crowded otherwise.
Unless you're a Buddhist.
Life is precious enjoy it.
👍🥰🙏
Lovely video, a world we won’t ever see again! Those were times I wish I lived around for all my life
I completely agree with your words.l like watching Fred,it means more because l do not like these times we live in.
70s and 80s were gold...
Don’t be so sure. Our world is de globalizing. In a generation, those countries that don’t have the resources they use internally, will be in for a major regression to the bad old days. The worst part is, the 1st world is no longer populated by men, but boys.
It’s gonna be fun to watch.
Simply brilliant a real man no nonsense down to earth good man!
I agree
But he did like to cross dress at home in private .lol
I personally appreciate an old fashioned man. My husband is very old fashioned, it’s a blessing I appreciate. Fred was very intelligent and full of humor, a real old fashioned character, there few and far between. Cherish them because when they leave this mortal coil there’s no replacing sadly .
Fred had his own style and is a tribute to the hard working man, a legend old Fred. Its a shame we lost a generation of clever engineering, something we lack these days...
@Timetraveller2092 yep all engineers doctors and first class citizens roflmfao
indeed
It was lost deliberately and by national self suicide.
A man. I wish I knew , a man I'd wish I'd met . Rest in peace Fred 🌹
Take me back to days when we were happy
@@mommymilestones I agree, people are being brainwashed by all the crap that's going on at the moment and believing everything the news media tells them.
It’s men like Fred we today owe so much too.
I love the way he puts his oily cap back on in the shop
Rest in peace to a Bolton legend.
Thank you for your excellent work ya shown us on TV.
Sadly gone.but not forgotten
✌️❤️
Sad to think 10 yrs later, Fred had half a day with the undertaker. RIP Fred.
What a man Fred was one of the finest,not afraid of anything a workaholic in its entirety Rip.
I love how he made a point of saying he’d paid 2 grand tax on the telly. 😂. He couldn’t give damn 😂😂
Victoria Wine! Wow! Now that shop brings back memories! Me and my mate spent some serious brass in there over the years! That and Liquor Save! RIP Fred, RIP KwikSave!
Fred has been wanted to be re watched by so many people in the last few years, especially the last two (COVID). I honestly believe we (99% men) are missing something or even yearning for something we used to know? Certainly the strange times we're in today would make anyone want something safe and ordered.
Well put friend
Couldn't of said it better 👏
A couple of things back then the roads were immaculate and hardly any litter. Another thing every series the man has a new wife and set of kids. Legend 😂
He loved those hairy chimneys 😂
Always loved watching Fred dibnah it's on BBC 4 7.70 pm weekdays sometimes it's on 7pm 😍
Cant think of anything bad to say about Fred. A mans man.
Shame he knocked his wife about
@@Gogetemscoobie and how do you know this?? do tell...
An Absolute Legend Really missed one of a kind
Absolute legand I love watching his videos
I remember him well, god rest his busy soul and wonderful mind, i remember his steam engine well, he was pals with my second cousin so we met him many times
“It’s alright, we get all sorts in here!”
I’d missed that from the salesman, but taken in good humour.
Much loved & Sadly Missed .... 💐🌹🚂🚜🔨🛠️ ❤️
Fred sounds exactly like my grandad who died in 84, right down to the way he pronounced the word whole.
Thank-you!
The most British man in history
I just came across a series of edited clips of Fred Dibnah which includes scenes from this series, but the clips appear to have been recorded from the UKTV History channel as there's a UKTV History logo at the top left. So it means that this series has been repeated since 1995 but on a different channel, and UKTV History started in 2002 and was named that until 2009.
Good'On ya Fred' been able to celebrate with family. I just wish he were still alive
I doubt very much if there is a man in the U.K. today, who has the skills and knowledge that Fred had, be it repairing and rebuilding steam engines or as a steeplejack, including the demolition of huge chimneys.
Fred Dibnah pride of Britain
Dear old Fred , what you see is what you get , nothing false or fancy . His kind are sadly missed , RIP my hero
10:31 It's a one hour walk from Fred's house to that Boddingtons Half Way House Pub. I'm in Chicago, IL and I have loved Boddingtons for the past 30 years.
Brilliant
As a chimney drops at the end u can hear someone shout vaguely "take that you B##tard" cracked me up lol 😆..
Great shout! 😂 13:40
Now that's a proper English Mon that they don't make anymore!! Britain was built through men like this god bless u Fred from an English man!!
Fred looks like Arthur Lowe without his cap on.
My late grandad worked on the LMS railway as a fireman, a tough job
The problem with the woman that Fred married, were they tried to change him. He wasn't going to be changed
It’s probably not the girl it’s most likely the family of her telling her she can do better. That’s after the family has milked him😞
That’s the problem with most women. Like 99% of them.
@@peterwinthorpe5152, sounds about right. He was a legend, they weren't.
Fred didnt need a wife, he needed a house keeper who was up for a bit of hanky panky when he came home drunk on a Saturday night.
I feel really sorry for the girls.
dont we all?
@@leemanton4994 this
@Timetraveller2092 whats your sources lol
So a wife of his day, then...
Little Rogers lovely, calm as a cucumber 😻
No spoilt brats them days glued to their smartphones, Switches and tablets unlike most kids today, including mine sadly where the parents just let em do what they want and then they ha ve their child told they have ADHD or some other made up crap. I think these devices are making kids aggressive too because their still developing brains can't deal with all the information that they're watching.
Wat een held *what a hero
Great upload lad👍👍👍
Cheers)
Fred chatting in bed was hilarious 😂
Everytime I watch one of his videos I talk to myself with a English accent for awhile 😂🤣..I do the same thing even worse whenever I watch braveheart 😂🤣
Scottish and Bolton, two interesting accents you've picked up
Suits you sir!
I got it lol
“ A nice blue Sir ! “ - “ Not bloody likely mate “
Theres nothin like the smell and sound of a steam engine
I'd like a jacket in grime brown with matching trousers and boiler suit.
And a pair of steel cap toe boots
And a flat cap
Three wives and five kids . Freds favourite chimney had hair round it 😂
What is the flashpoint of freds oily cap?
🥺🤭💕🙏🥰
Saddens me to see what's become if Fred's backyard now.
What happened?
Abit off topic, but I read an article the other day from the Liverpool Echo dated 25 July 1988 where it said Fred was banned for 12 months for drink driving over the limit and at 30mph. Apparently he been driving his Land Rover in Liverpool shortly after pulling down a chimney. It's the first time I've heard about this, strange no mention of this in any of the Fred Dibnah series.
at least theres still abit o grafting going on, the buildings are all the same and havent been "developed". The lad that now owns the place is a nice fella and grew up just down the road from fred, he had no problem with me and a mate having a look around a couple of weeks ago. The shaft is still there and the house looks the same, its a pity the previous owner Leon sold all the workshop equipment, heartless sod!
FRED DIBNHA 💯
A skilled man a man that could show the world how to construct thing's
Whats the flash point of your cap 😅😂😂
Married life, fatherhood and shopping definitely wasn’t for Fred 🙏 I can’t even begin to imagine what it must have been like when he was wanting to get intimate 😮
He used to say he enjoyed things that were "Hot, dirty and dangerous", that's how he described Sheila his third wife. So I imagine he was just as much of a bloke as he comes across haha
That's just the way men were at that time.
Desde España, la España Atlantica, tan parecida a Gran Bretaña, en los 70, 80, mucha lluvia, minas de carbón, y acerias ,y esa generación de hombres, duros que Europa a perdido para siempre
We built em and he knocks em down😂
The assistant at the men’s clothing shop made Fred laugh when his wife was apologetic he said don’t be we get all sorts in here.
Without his cap on he looks like Capt Mainwaring.
Ole' Fred would have a right breakdown to see his jolly old England in it's current state....
Fred was proof that when there’s snow on the roof there’s a fire in the boiler!
3:37 is the flash point of this hilarious story he tells us
Fred's wife looks years younger than him. Good for him.
13 years younger
Forget about all that poncing around in the clothing department malarkey and get straight back to the sheds in your scruffs to get the oxy-acetylene torch fired up 😂
8:21 not a bad selection, Fred 👏🏼
This woman left and hurt him when he told her your gonna leave for a younger man she said no im not I dont care about that, after two kids what does she do..break up a family.
Love the way he put slow moving vehicle on the back of his trailer. Really??? Lol.
What use was that shop assistant apart from dealing out personal insults.
Look at Fred in bed with his pyjamas on bless him =)
i was born 25 years too late
Fred in bed with his hat on the post!! Haha. Gosh that's tickled me!!
''Y'know, some-ing like thah''
"sumert"
Couldn't you upload the whole thing?
I can only upload in parts because youtube won't allow me to upload more than 15 mins of video, unless I do a security verification check (probably involve giving my mobile number or something) which I am not doing.
@@Embracing01 FairPlay. UA-cam has that many silly new rules. I’m waiting for it’s successor.
How cheeky was that clothes salesman
He was having banter
Fred. Married three times. All good looking women. Gives me hope for myself 👍
You gotta have hope buddy. Being a famous tv personality with over a million in the bank will definitely help. 😂
The stuff he says is what most men are thinking
A friend with benefits
"Next program: Top gear" Television for men, made by men, back then LOL
I thought it was Captain Mainwaring sat in bed 🤣
If you pause fred in bed it's Captain Mainwaring
I think Fred would have looked good in something tweedy !... with the flat cap, of course ! I think I need one... I have the same aerodynamic surface on top !
I think he's wives were very patient and put up with a lot
They weren't obliged to marry him, were they?
@@doneyarts47according to pansies, that kind of common sense doesn't matter
Whatever happened to Donald?
Unfortunately died a couple of years after Fred. You can find Donald’s complete name in the internet and there is some article saying he died.
How old was his wife then they look much different in age
By the end of his life he was pretty rich.
must be a awsome neighbour
Its weird to see him in a bed….almost scary….
Scapula Cappyitis!! 😂😂
I’ll bet that wife left him. Not cos he’s a bad guy. Just because he’s a free spirit.
I feel really sorry for the girls. On the one hand they knew what they were getting into but then you dont treat people like that. I know you shouldn't speak of ill the dead but really he could ahve tried a bit harder.
Taurian.....not possible
I admire him but he was very much full of his own self importance.
Scapular capeitis xD
3:43 lol
You can tell he wasn't having any of that shopping business. Haha
@@EskCan44 hahaha
All those moaning woman….didn’t have to stick around did they 🤣….who needs them when you got a steam engine anyway 🤣🥳
👏👏👍
All these woman trying to change Fred
🤣👍🏻
It’s really sad his kids ended up selling that magnificent steam roller only 5 years after his death to cash in £££🥴🥴. I heard that 3rd witch wife of his was demanding money as Fred cut out all his wives from the will. So they ended up selling this steam roller for 100k.
If I was fred I would have left the entire state to his friends at the steam engine club / charity. His kids didn’t deserve a penny of it.
It was noticeably quieter here in Bolton when died
He look like Mr. Manring inn bed