You can mock the British weather, but it was all that rain falling on the Pennine hills that fed the streams that grew into rivers that drove the waterwheels which powered the early Industrial Revolution in Northern England, before steam power. That rain is golden!
I think that they were saying that the Forth Road Bridge had to be strengthened because the newer trucks are 44 ton which is much heavier than when the bridge was built. Fred's engine and trailer is under12 ton across 4 axles so not a problem for most of the bridges they would encounter.
You looked like a kid in a sweet shop in this episode Dan😂 i had a look and there arent any Fred Dibnah tours. You can visit his old house, workshop and mine but its got mixed reviews. I dont think British people have the mentality to cash in on someone's death like that. You'd love Blist Hill open air museum, which has a working foundry though, and there are loads of working museums all over Britain that will take you back to the Industrial Revolution and centuries earlier. We always holiday'd in the UK growing up and every holiday we would visit at least two working museums. They're great. Also there are plenty of Steam fairs in the summer so if you're over here then you could see them. Theyre amazing and packed with people like Fred. We've also got tons of steam railways (as another person commented) and miniature railways all over the place. You can also visit quite a few mines and caves. You wouldn't be bored or lost for things to do in the vein of Fred Dibnah 😊
Im from Liverpool but i visit sheffield quite often and watching fred struggle with the hills is something that i sympathize with him because it is very hilly. Another thing i learned from the lads up there is they have a phrase for the girls that they have "Yorkshire thighs" as you can imagine from walking around all these hills.
Growing up nearby to, the forge, I used to hear and almost feel the press being worked through the night. Back then there was still a thriving steel industry in sheffield, but with the imports of cheaper steels, it was inevitable that it would decline. A lot of the the steel produced now is highly specialised for use in aerospace and military applications. This product is still highly prized. Thanks for watching this lads, loving your work
I live in Rotherham just next to Sheffield. Retired now after spending my life in the Steel Industry.. Not aware of any organised tours, but there are several industrial museums in the area including a couple of working museums such as Abbydale featured on the video. My main interest is the making of Navy cannons at Rotherham in the 18th century. How they handled and machined cannons weighing several tons with only water and muscle power could teach lessons today in our power hungry world.
Sheffield Forgemasters still produce the most specialist castings to this day. On a side note at 35:38 on your film I was running down that hill as Fred’s engine was chugging up, and the white van waiting to pull out contains two good friends of mine called Paul and Jim, a father and son neither of whom are with us anymore. Always get a slight lump in the throat when I see that brief shot. Thanks for taking an interest in my small corner of the world guys. 👍🏻
Spence I absolutely love that you love the proper Thomas the Tank Engine!🙌🏻 My youngest brother (now 40) was totally obsessed with it as a kid and so was Ed (my youngest now 17) . The models and sets were so beautiful. I loved sitting and watching them with Ed😊🥰 Bloody troublesome trucks and naughty diesel though😡😂
@@markwolstenholme3354 same in merthyr Tydfil South Wales we have a viaduct where I live a man was gonna jump off half the village was there shouting jump go u pussy 😂 ruthless
Sad story about Scammondon bridge. I once went for an interview for a job with Yorkshire Water, going around various locations in Yorkshire taking water samples and taking them to the testing laboratories. Unfortunately I was the runner up for the position but the young lady who got the job was out there doing her rounds and got locked out of her van, so someone had to take her a spare key and by the time she got back into her van it was too late in the day to finish the day’s work so she set off to get back to her base and had to travel under the bridge and the driver who had brought her the key was travelling right behind her. Well just as they were approaching the bridge, an unfortunate person decided to take his life by jumping off and he landed just feet infront of her van and although she managed to stop her van the driver behind her hit her van, which pushed her van forward onto the body. This caused her to have a mental breakdown and she had to leave the job because she couldn’t get behind the wheel of a vehicle again. Unfortunately the water company decided not to replace her with the runner up(me) and instead used existing staff to cover the duty on a rotating schedule. If she hadn’t locked her keys in her van , she would have driven past the bridge several hours earlier than she did and she wouldn’t have been so traumatised by the event.
You guys watching dear old Fred and this last series of his has become a cheery part of my Sunday. Bi reet grand lads, tha nose.. Sendin thi luv from Sheffield
I remember being a kid in the 80s and family-planned beach trips for the bank holiday. All excited, getting up early for a good start on the drive and getting to Bournemouth and - yeah, it's chucking it down, sky's grey, sea's grey + fish and chips in the car and an ice cream.
I worked at Independent forging on the big press, it’s still going today forging more and more high end alloys. A few of the guys from this video still work there.
If you two ever make it to the UK. Make sure you treat yourselves to a visit to one of our heritage train lines. They use steam trains from the same era as Fred’s steam engine. I’m sure both of you will love it 😊
"Tuther" is northern speak for "the other" in case you're wondering. The only time I went to the top of mount Snowdon in Wales the fog was so thick you could only see about 40 ft!
It so relaxing watching Fred his got that kind of voice like Bob Ross and David Attenborough. All 3 can put me to sleep, but in a good way. They are not boring just relaxing. Apparently some doctors and psychiatrist tell patients who find it hard to sleep. To listen too Bob Ross and David Attenborough.
The thing is with our weather, is not that it's so bad but more an issue of it not being able to make its mind up. I know you probably won't believe it but I am working in my kitchen and out the window in the last two hours I have witnessed blue skies and sunshine, rain, clouds, sleet, snow, hail, rain again and as I am writing this the Sun's coming out from behind the clouds and the skies clearing again. This is the problem with our weather, it's unpredictable!
My old grandad worked in the steel works in Sheffield. He saw a molten metal pole go straight through someone and another bloke jump into the molten metal. People also used to drink small beer while working, 1%-2% alcohol to kill the bacteria
I saw fed and he's tracksion steam engine in going down londons Whitehall many years ago it might be in this series as thay were filming not sure ❤great stuff long time subscriber
Have you thought about doing a video on the industrial revolution? Do you know much about it? You would be surprised jow many discoveries and inventions she rooted in Britain
You couldn't replicate his tour exactly because he had a lot of access to private businesses that couldn't take the general public (especially with health & safety now) but you could do a lot of the museum type things he did and there are living history museums in some of the industrial areas that show you these industries how they used to be so you could certainly do your own industrial heritage tour.
Guys , please check out a band from my hometown of Warrington (right in-between Liverpool and Manchester) they are called "viola beach" and they were tragically killed when their car came off a bridge in Sweden. They had just recorded their debut album. Theyre brilliant . Check out "viola beach - swings and waterslides or boys who sing" Incredible sound . Please check them i love your reactions.
you can visit most of these sites,, but the industrial sites might be difficult,,, but most i would say would be open to visits if asked best it to hire a car and get tips from here where to go stay and see,,, there is so much more if your doing that route
that bridge and that part of the M62 has a bit of a story on its own, just near the mentioned reservoir, there is a farm in a parting of the motorway, that farmer who lived there refused to move when they wanted to lay down the M62, in the end they split the motorway round the farmhouse. 11:15 unfortunately that how we were, in the last 20 years, we have been americanised more, way more people suing eachother for no real reason to make money than ever before. 17:30 the weather is that changeable in general that it is always a 50/50 bet on wether its going to clear or if its going to get worse, and thats going anywhere in the north. Bikers have a joke about people who put thier motorcycles away when it rains in the north, mainly that theyre in the wrong country to be a fair weather biker
You’d have to map it yourself and you would not get the access that Fred did. The men in the forge were real guys, you’d struggle to turn up and see them doing their work, it was a work place (probably shut down now), as Fred says to the main forge guy, health and safety would be all over him nowadays for wearing a baseball cap and not a tin hat. The other place was a working museum where the university Professors were playing at being real men. You might be able to watch them do the crucible steel but wouldn’t be allowed to smash it open like Fred did. Yes health and safety again.
Sheffield City council was nicknamed "the People's Republic of South Yorkshire" in the eighties, when it was one of a network of city councils run by the socialist left of the Labour party. It was part of the rearguard fight against Mrs Thatcher's privatisations and shutting down of British industries to kill millions of union jobs and gerrymander the political system by draining funds and energy from the Labour party. Sheffield was particularly hard hit by the selling off of British Steel and massive downsizing and offshoring that followed, as well as by the closure of mines in the surrounding hills. Some huge fraction of the population was forced the leave for London to look for jobs, and it's only recently recovered economically and in terms of the local unemployment rate. The lack of steel industry in the UK recently came into the news again, because it turns out we can't send Challenger tanks to Ukraine because we no longer have the ability to make new 120mm cannon barrels for the Challenger 2 main gun, or to replace ones worn out in training or combat use, and the British Army has been cannibalising its fleet of Challengers to keep a token force operational.
As a country we've done well to preserve a lot of our industrial past and also our aviation heritage, one sad thing though has been the almost complete loss of our naval/maritime history. Of the dozens of battleships, battlecruisers and aircraft carriers Britain produced since 1906, not a single one was preserved for the nation... America has done far better, and has preserved 7 battleships and 5 aircraft carriers as museums for the public.
You can mock the British weather, but it was all that rain falling on the Pennine hills that fed the streams that grew into rivers that drove the waterwheels which powered the early Industrial Revolution in Northern England, before steam power. That rain is golden!
I think that they were saying that the Forth Road Bridge had to be strengthened because the newer trucks are 44 ton which is much heavier than when the bridge was built. Fred's engine and trailer is under12 ton across 4 axles so not a problem for most of the bridges they would encounter.
You looked like a kid in a sweet shop in this episode Dan😂 i had a look and there arent any Fred Dibnah tours. You can visit his old house, workshop and mine but its got mixed reviews. I dont think British people have the mentality to cash in on someone's death like that.
You'd love Blist Hill open air museum, which has a working foundry though, and there are loads of working museums all over Britain that will take you back to the Industrial Revolution and centuries earlier.
We always holiday'd in the UK growing up and every holiday we would visit at least two working museums. They're great.
Also there are plenty of Steam fairs in the summer so if you're over here then you could see them. Theyre amazing and packed with people like Fred.
We've also got tons of steam railways (as another person commented) and miniature railways all over the place.
You can also visit quite a few mines and caves.
You wouldn't be bored or lost for things to do in the vein of Fred Dibnah 😊
How did I miss you guys reacting to this. I really appreciate the obvious appreciation on your faces when you see this stuff.
Im from Liverpool but i visit sheffield quite often and watching fred struggle with the hills is something that i sympathize with him because it is very hilly. Another thing i learned from the lads up there is they have a phrase for the girls that they have "Yorkshire thighs" as you can imagine from walking around all these hills.
Growing up nearby to, the forge, I used to hear and almost feel the press being worked through the night. Back then there was still a thriving steel industry in sheffield, but with the imports of cheaper steels, it was inevitable that it would decline. A lot of the the steel produced now is highly specialised for use in aerospace and military applications. This product is still highly prized. Thanks for watching this lads, loving your work
The bloody chinese undercut everyone to kill other countries steel industries. Now they monopolise and can charge what they want
There is a great Science museum in Sheffield called Magna which is based in an old forge. Well worth a visit!
I live in Rotherham just next to Sheffield. Retired now after spending my life in the Steel Industry.. Not aware of any organised tours, but there are several industrial museums in the area including a couple of working museums such as Abbydale featured on the video. My main interest is the making of Navy cannons at Rotherham in the 18th century. How they handled and machined cannons weighing several tons with only water and muscle power could teach lessons today in our power hungry world.
He said of the weight, " I've seen six leggers full of rocks" , which means three axle rock trucks were using it as normal.
Sheffield Forgemasters still produce the most specialist castings to this day. On a side note at 35:38 on your film I was running down that hill as Fred’s engine was chugging up, and the white van waiting to pull out contains two good friends of mine called Paul and Jim, a father and son neither of whom are with us anymore. Always get a slight lump in the throat when I see that brief shot. Thanks for taking an interest in my small corner of the world guys. 👍🏻
Keep it coming young fellas! Much Love from Hamilton, Ontario Canada xo
Spence I absolutely love that you love the proper Thomas the Tank Engine!🙌🏻 My youngest brother (now 40) was totally obsessed with it as a kid and so was Ed (my youngest now 17) . The models and sets were so beautiful. I loved sitting and watching them with Ed😊🥰 Bloody troublesome trucks and naughty diesel though😡😂
I know you can visit the Whitechapel Bell Foundary in London. They cast the Liberty Bell and re-cast Big Ben. Still casting the bells today !
they call that bridge suicide bridge. so many people have jumped off it over years. Now it's got a ten foot fence up. To stop people jumping
Haaa same here in Wales there's a bridge people throw themselves off
@@markwolstenholme3354 same in merthyr Tydfil South Wales we have a viaduct where I live a man was gonna jump off half the village was there shouting jump go u pussy 😂 ruthless
Sad story about Scammondon bridge. I once went for an interview for a job with Yorkshire Water, going around various locations in Yorkshire taking water samples and taking them to the testing laboratories. Unfortunately I was the runner up for the position but the young lady who got the job was out there doing her rounds and got locked out of her van, so someone had to take her a spare key and by the time she got back into her van it was too late in the day to finish the day’s work so she set off to get back to her base and had to travel under the bridge and the driver who had brought her the key was travelling right behind her. Well just as they were approaching the bridge, an unfortunate person decided to take his life by jumping off and he landed just feet infront of her van and although she managed to stop her van the driver behind her hit her van, which pushed her van forward onto the body. This caused her to have a mental breakdown and she had to leave the job because she couldn’t get behind the wheel of a vehicle again. Unfortunately the water company decided not to replace her with the runner up(me) and instead used existing staff to cover the duty on a rotating schedule. If she hadn’t locked her keys in her van , she would have driven past the bridge several hours earlier than she did and she wouldn’t have been so traumatised by the event.
See you lads are heading for 100k subs, Well deserved you have covered some great stuff and have earned your stripes as honoree Brits
Bloody Mary in hand, I'm ready for the Dib Dog!
My wife's brother married a Girl from Sheffield she was beautiful and the kindest nicest person. She was beautiful in side and out .
Born and bred Sheffield, I grew up at Wincobank, Lived here all my life and surprise, surprise I work in the steel industry
You guys watching dear old Fred and this last series of his has become a cheery part of my Sunday. Bi reet grand lads, tha nose..
Sendin thi luv from Sheffield
I remember being a kid in the 80s and family-planned beach trips for the bank holiday.
All excited, getting up early for a good start on the drive and getting to Bournemouth and - yeah, it's chucking it down, sky's grey, sea's grey + fish and chips in the car and an ice cream.
I live near Scammonden Bridge and the view from it never gets old. I sometimes go for a drive on a Sunday just to go over it.
I worked at Independent forging on the big press, it’s still going today forging more and more high end alloys. A few of the guys from this video still work there.
I live pretty close to that bridge. Spectacular part of the country.
If you two ever make it to the UK. Make sure you treat yourselves to a visit to one of our heritage train lines.
They use steam trains from the same era as Fred’s steam engine.
I’m sure both of you will love it 😊
Theres a heritage line at Ribble and a museum too.
I love these videos, I love the sense of shared appreciation of the people and the skills that came before us. Amazing mind blowing stuff.
I'm from Sheff and a fan of tanks and I did not expect a crossover with Fred.
"Tuther" is northern speak for "the other" in case you're wondering.
The only time I went to the top of mount Snowdon in Wales the fog was so thick you could only see about 40 ft!
Some of the steepest streets I've ever walked up are in Sheffield. It must be a nightmare for the postie's.
Everything in Britain is Engineered above what it needs to be .and checked regularly.
It so relaxing watching Fred his got that kind of voice like Bob Ross and David Attenborough. All 3 can put me to sleep, but in a good way. They are not boring just relaxing.
Apparently some doctors and psychiatrist tell patients who find it hard to sleep. To listen too Bob Ross and David Attenborough.
I love these reviews chaps. It’s so nice to see Daniel’s beaming heartfelt smile. Great stuff Gentleman!
Let's get the boys to100k big push by everyone There deserve it so much 🤞❤🙏
Look for his book "Fred Dibnah's Industrial Age"
A guide to Britain's Industrial Heritage - Where to go What to see.
BBC Books 1999
Just finished my lunchtime sandwiches, now to sit down and watch the legendary Fred, in the company of the ETS21 lads…
The thing is with our weather, is not that it's so bad but more an issue of it not being able to make its mind up. I know you probably won't believe it but I am working in my kitchen and out the window in the last two hours I have witnessed blue skies and sunshine, rain, clouds, sleet, snow, hail, rain again and as I am writing this the Sun's coming out from behind the clouds and the skies clearing again. This is the problem with our weather, it's unpredictable!
My old grandad worked in the steel works in Sheffield. He saw a molten metal pole go straight through someone and another bloke jump into the molten metal.
People also used to drink small beer while working, 1%-2% alcohol to kill the bacteria
I saw fed and he's tracksion steam engine in going down londons Whitehall many years ago it might be in this series as thay were filming not sure ❤great stuff long time subscriber
Bloody pretext 😮😅
Have you thought about doing a video on the industrial revolution? Do you know much about it? You would be surprised jow many discoveries and inventions she rooted in Britain
Hi lads, I hope ,ou can find the video of Fred's funeral. It's a testament to how highly thought of Fred was.
I live in Sheffield and as a young man whilst in bed you could hear the thumping of the hammers from miles away the ground used to move 😮
Playing spot the street - I used to live in Sheffield.
You couldn't replicate his tour exactly because he had a lot of access to private businesses that couldn't take the general public (especially with health & safety now) but you could do a lot of the museum type things he did and there are living history museums in some of the industrial areas that show you these industries how they used to be so you could certainly do your own industrial heritage tour.
I’ve driven across that bridge at 8:31.
Guys , please check out a band from my hometown of Warrington (right in-between Liverpool and Manchester) they are called "viola beach" and they were tragically killed when their car came off a bridge in Sweden. They had just recorded their debut album. Theyre brilliant . Check out "viola beach - swings and waterslides or boys who sing"
Incredible sound . Please check them i love your reactions.
Four seasons in one day. Why do you Think we have so pubs in Britain .
you can visit most of these sites,, but the industrial sites might be difficult,,, but most i would say would be open to visits if asked best it to hire a car and get tips from here where to go stay and see,,, there is so much more if your doing that route
You guys should try Toast of London or the Mighty Boosh
that bridge and that part of the M62 has a bit of a story on its own, just near the mentioned reservoir, there is a farm in a parting of the motorway, that farmer who lived there refused to move when they wanted to lay down the M62, in the end they split the motorway round the farmhouse.
11:15 unfortunately that how we were, in the last 20 years, we have been americanised more, way more people suing eachother for no real reason to make money than ever before.
17:30 the weather is that changeable in general that it is always a 50/50 bet on wether its going to clear or if its going to get worse, and thats going anywhere in the north. Bikers have a joke about people who put thier motorcycles away when it rains in the north, mainly that theyre in the wrong country to be a fair weather biker
The predator had to ask fred how to climb trees and buildings safely,before accepting the movie part
You’d have to map it yourself and you would not get the access that Fred did. The men in the forge were real guys, you’d struggle to turn up and see them doing their work, it was a work place (probably shut down now), as Fred says to the main forge guy, health and safety would be all over him nowadays for wearing a baseball cap and not a tin hat. The other place was a working museum where the university Professors were playing at being real men. You might be able to watch them do the crucible steel but wouldn’t be allowed to smash it open like Fred did. Yes health and safety again.
😂 insert joke about British weather. When it's good it's good but the rest of the time it's not good at all
Sheffield City council was nicknamed "the People's Republic of South Yorkshire" in the eighties, when it was one of a network of city councils run by the socialist left of the Labour party. It was part of the rearguard fight against Mrs Thatcher's privatisations and shutting down of British industries to kill millions of union jobs and gerrymander the political system by draining funds and energy from the Labour party. Sheffield was particularly hard hit by the selling off of British Steel and massive downsizing and offshoring that followed, as well as by the closure of mines in the surrounding hills. Some huge fraction of the population was forced the leave for London to look for jobs, and it's only recently recovered economically and in terms of the local unemployment rate. The lack of steel industry in the UK recently came into the news again, because it turns out we can't send Challenger tanks to Ukraine because we no longer have the ability to make new 120mm cannon barrels for the Challenger 2 main gun, or to replace ones worn out in training or combat use, and the British Army has been cannibalising its fleet of Challengers to keep a token force operational.
Fred had alcohol constipation, he couldn't pass a pub!
When the BBC were earnest and not liars
That's suicide bridge or also known as rainbow bridge
157 wet days in Britain in a year
That bridge is also known as suicide bridge
Sad fact but many have jumped from it
I live a few miles away
Anyway more happy views needed sorry
Does anyone know If alf is still alive
His earlier series are far superior to this one. When he was stronk.
If you want to prove the climate is fine and there is no climate emergency go to the UK 😂
As a country we've done well to preserve a lot of our industrial past and also our aviation heritage, one sad thing though has been the almost complete loss of our naval/maritime history. Of the dozens of battleships, battlecruisers and aircraft carriers Britain produced since 1906, not a single one was preserved for the nation...
America has done far better, and has preserved 7 battleships and 5 aircraft carriers as museums for the public.
HMS Belfast!