Life with Fred - On the Road (part 1)

Life with Fred (On the Road) part 1
A repeat broadcast from 1995 of the BBC2 series about Bolton Steeplejack Fred Dibnah which was first shown in 1994.
Date: Thursday 9th March 1995

[@LandAnchor]

Just when you think you’ve unearthed every inch of Fred Dibnah’s history online, this comes along. Thank you for sharing this.

[@Embracing01]

Cheers no worries. Abit odd that I'm the only one who has uploaded the full episodes of these series on youtube. There is the odd clip but not the full 30 min eps.

[@Heaven-dy9lj]

This is lovely. How I remember things, all being better.

[@dastardlyexperiments]

"Wherever you go there's always awkward Buggers"
Wise words Fred
😁

[@danielnoye223]

Fred Dibnah's in the vicar's good book

[@EskimoCanadian44]

Thanks for posting these tapes really good quality recording

[@Embracing01]

Thanks for that. They look better on my computer as youtube compresses the quality quite abit.

[@EskimoCanadian44]

@@Embracing01 Even so, these particular recordings are among the highest quality I've seen on the U-tube!

[@thetruth1862]

Legend Fred as an American I salut men like you and there kind not many skilled men like em especially nowadays 2024, i wonder if Fred would have liked it now or been frightened 😅

[@mmhustler8110]

" A Taiwanese front door is a' hundred quid"😆😆

[@walt-sh7ju]

The road junction at 11.58 is only a stones throw from pub where they were drinking at.
I worked on a barn conversion on the left at about 12.15 in 2006.
Wonder what year this series was filmed ? Early 90s?

[@lilyweatherwaxHRH]

Description up top says first shown on BBC2 in 1994

[@martinparker9249]

@6:33 Steak sandwich n chips £3.95 ......prices havnt changed that much lol ....mind u some pubs ed charge a tenner for that !

[@jbconno]

Its The Victoria Inn at Kirby Malham, still going strong.

[@f32440i]

Fred never had much money because he charged so little for horrendously dangerous and hard labour jobs

[@raymondcaylor6292]

11:09 1st Fred's never owned land the council wanted and it's still done today.....crazy miles long go arounds because some ultra rich person wants to keep their parcels intact. Or even worse is the miles out of the way to build near ultra rich people's land for increased value. 2nd Fred doesn't realize those land owner's of old did give away land to their neighbors to build the roads to begin with. There wasn't businesses to tax then and local governments had no money. And no money meant no power.