Fred Dibnah's Magnificent Monuments
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Jukebag said:
Grew up in the early 90s watching Fred Dibnah. Always thought he was a true working class northern hero, that is until he got his MBE from the Queen. Noone in Bolton hardly remembers him now despite the statue of him in the town centre.
I'm sure that's not the case, Fred will long be remembered as a famous son.BTW where does it say all working class folk are Republicans ?
A couple of nights a go they showed a clip of him climbing the India Mill chimney in Lancashire with its two massive overhangs. The really scary thing is he must had had to ladder the overhangs in the first place, but sadly there doesn't seem to be footage of him doing that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg
He was a gifted draugtsman as well - the drawings shown on the programme are quite beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg
He was a gifted draugtsman as well - the drawings shown on the programme are quite beautiful.
Mr Pointy said:
A couple of nights a go they showed a clip of him climbing the India Mill chimney in Lancashire with its two massive overhangs. The really scary thing is he must had had to ladder the overhangs in the first place, but sadly there doesn't seem to be footage of him doing that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg
He was a gifted draugtsman as well - the drawings shown on the programme are quite beautiful.
wooden ladders and just knocking some pins in, to which he then roped those wooden ladders.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg
He was a gifted draugtsman as well - the drawings shown on the programme are quite beautiful.
Can make you feel quite queasy.
His drawings though. As was said in another post - just superb. well worth framing if not trying to emulate.
dukeboy749r said:
wooden ladders and just knocking some pins in, to which he then roped those wooden ladders. .
Well yes, but how did he carry the ladder up the chimney, then hold it up. THEN secure it, all the while working above his head, holding on for grim death, AND keeping his fag lit and his bunnet on ?
Like the previous poster, I'm intrigued as to how the hell he fitted the ladders and the scaffolding, I know he had
a man Friday to help him.
There is footage on YouTube off him laddering chimneys. You have dog on the bottom and middle which is knocked into the cement and lashed to the ladder you then climb up to the top of the ladder and knock another dog in as high as you can reach. You then hoist another ladder up that has been tied on by someone at the bottom. You lash this to the top off the ladder and the dog. Before climbing up and repeating the process.
He used a bosuns basket to swing around the top off the chimneys knocking in dogs before hoisting all the poles and planks 200ft up in the air.
Unbelievable the work involved, all done by hand with just a man (Or his wife) on the ground.
As you can tell I have wasted many hours on YouTube watching old footage.
He used a bosuns basket to swing around the top off the chimneys knocking in dogs before hoisting all the poles and planks 200ft up in the air.
Unbelievable the work involved, all done by hand with just a man (Or his wife) on the ground.
As you can tell I have wasted many hours on YouTube watching old footage.
DeejRC said:
It doesn’t and good luck finding much “Republican” support up in Lancs. Fred is still a proper legend back home.
Why accept an MBE (or OBE) if he's "one of us?". Proper working class heros wouldn't bow down to that nonsense. I doubt John Lennon would if he were still here, and that was a man who said what he thought. And he gave back his MBE in the late 60s. I can imagine Lennon speaking out about all the Covid BS that's going on, but sadly those people tend to not stay around for very long. 
Jukebag said:
Why accept an MBE (or OBE) if he's "one of us?". Proper working class heros wouldn't bow down to that nonsense. I doubt John Lennon would if he were still here, and that was a man who said what he thought. And he gave back his MBE in the late 60s. I can imagine Lennon speaking out about all the Covid BS that's going on, but sadly those people tend to not stay around for very long.
It's a betrayal of the working class you say ? You are definately a character from a grim Ken Loach TV play written by Alan Bleasdale.
With whippets, colliery strikes, rugby league, and a bit of wife battering.
J6542 said:
He was extremely proud of everything British. It would be a massive honour for him to go to the palace and meet the queen and have a look around. As for not being working class, he knocked a bloody 200ft chimney down with a lump hammer 1 brick at a time Ffs.
I watched that episode recently; all that time knocking it down brick by brick, all because the owner didn't want it blown up......Gassing Station | TV, Film, Streaming & Radio | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff