I'm a huge fan of Fred's and I completely understand he was a very old school man's man but the guy really needed to learn how to also have a fulfilling family life away from chimneys and steam engines, it's no suprise he went through a few divorces. Go spend some valuable memories whilst on holiday with your kids, not knocking a chimney down.
@RedBison. I feel very similar. He’s a joy to watch and listen to, he’s charming and witty, and it makes me laugh, in some way, seeing him spend a holiday with his family knocking down a chimney, but mostly it makes my heart ache for his wife and kids to think of all the potential time they could have had with him that they missed out on.
@@TheMountainMongrel If you want a wife and kids you have to dedicate time and effort to them or they will leave, it's very simple. Of course every man has his hobbies and his job but he cant focus solely on those or he will be single in no time. It's not always about a woman "changing" a man.
@@Mr.M1STER Any relationship is 50/50 . Both have to adjust and adapt to ensure fairness . After his job Freds wife and children should always have come before steam engines .
Actually, it's Allison who was with him the longest and she appeared to at least try to take an interest in his work. I'd say she is a damn good woman.
You know when someone is really good at what they do, they make it look easy. Fred does this in every episode I've seen. You'd never catch me scaling a ladder or chimney, kudos to him!
I have always had a soft spot for Fred, but my mother hated him with a passion, and I never saw many of his series until much later, since whenever an episode would come on the TV, my mother would immediately switch it off. Why did my mother hate Fred? Contrary to many statements, there were many blokes like Fred who emerged from the 1950's, and my father was one of them. Their idea of a woman's place was looking after the house, the kids, the washing/ironing, and waiting on them hand and foot. My father, in the Victorian tradition, always ensured that we had a roof over our heads, clothes on our backs, food in our guts, and a holiday once a year, and his passions were steam locomotives, (railways being much in the family), cars, trucks, and the local pub. Fred however, did not care for holidays, the finances for which were ploughed into his hobby. He had little respect for much of the modern world, being obsessed with his true passion for steam engines and all things Victorian. I truly believe that Fred was born in the wrong era, or was a reincarnation of a person from the Victorian age who seriously lamented being thrust into modern times. I believe my mother concluded that Fred was much the same as my father in many respects, and that was probably the reason for her dislike of him. Maybe she saw much of my father in Fred. Pity. I have always considered Fred as a down to earth hard working grafter, in a particularly dangerous profession. I think he made his mistakes, as we all do in life, was somewhat selfish, and could have done more to enhance his marital relationship, but there is no doubt that it took real guts to do the job he did. Like my father, he kept food on the table and a roof over his family's head. Today there are many that would not even do that. RIP Fred Dibnah. I will miss your straight forward down to earth talking. Up in Heaven now, working on new steam engine projects.
I've seen quite a number of videos of Fred Dibnah now. (And I love them.) But whenever there's his family in the video, I feel bad for them. There's never any sign of an emotional connection with his wife of even his kids. When he's driving around the country on the steam engine, it seems he never even talks to the kids. Maybe it's just the way the videos are put together or I need to watch some more, I don't know. But I prefer the videos where he's alone with his craft. There he is beyond excellent, absolutely no doubt about it.
Alison was a champ ! Sad that they parted ways , but you can tell Fred wasn't easy man to live with , and Fred had stated a few times that they almost came to divorce preceding before the actual one did come about ! Alison eventually could not live like that anymore and I can understand her feelings on that !
there's not an awful lot of men that COULD do this job...I've been a stager for 30 years & I get scared just WATCHING these video's. He was definitely one of a kind with big brass ones.
I have a picture of my young wife helping to dig the foundations for our first house on our weekends but that pales in comparison to Freds idea of a weekend away! lol
Fantastic stuff nothing like a picture of a woman doing some hard physical graft. Back in ca. 1987 I had one of my girlfriends at the time help dig cesspit in my uncles back garden.
"You knock my chimney down and we'll supply a new steam engine part"....Wife is helping. Kids in the car watching. Pissing down with rain....Brings a lump to my throat....
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Fred should have been a MGTOW. Not because women did him wrong, but because it wasn't fair on any woman to have to live that life.
I love how he stay on that top rung . And I just love his inventions on his ladder stays. And hooks. Brilliant Man . Should have been Knighted. But then again best not ....looking at the crooks who have been knighted ....🤔
A working holiday! Why not. An opportunity was there to get parts for his passion that was steam engines and he made short work of that chimney stack! The guy was a legend.
The guy Was a selfish pig. He had made a few quid since the TV shows and should have spent it on his kids and wife, instead he spent it on his steam engines; while they lived the same life as before. PIG of a man if you asked me. I judge a man by how he treats those closest to him.
Nowadays that building and All around the chimney would have to be scaffolded this was proper oldschool workmanship with no idiot from health and safety breathing down your neck LONG LIVE THE LEGEND FRED DIBNAH
I tent to agree & disagree. 100 years ago & to the rest of time before that, holidays didn’t exist, work was work, took the money whilst it was there. She wouldn’t of had a holiday is it was for him working. However I think I’d rather stay in bed & play with her that way on holiday.
He was like this when she married him, like all women, it's their right to change the man to suit them or divorce them for all their worth. He said in another video they could have semi retired but now he will be working till he is dead. It's white male privilege for anyone unsure of this situation.
Ya know, I've been in the trades all my life. Been down in mines, been up on antennas and water towers. Work hard, and really enjoy it. I have the utmost respect for fred, and crazy appreciation of his work. That said, he's an ass. His attitude towards family is just shy of appalling.
He was a workaholic, could not sit still, it’s hard to knock the man for that but it’s easy to see why it created problems with his wife and kids. They never went hungry though and had a very nice roof over their head. Tough one, especially around that time what was expected of men was beginning to change massively and it didn’t suit them all.
Thomas. I don't agree. He didn't leave his family, or break it up, but he worked hard and provided. That's the test, not how others do it, which is generally get divorced, or start screwing around. You want him to be a new 21st Cent man? He wasn't that kind, some aren't. She left him remember.
@Maxwell Boyne Sorry maxwell there’s a slight difference between fred and your grandad, He ran his own steeplejack business, restored 2 engines, renovated a beautiful house and had a tv career. Tbh, just aswell he did follow the path you criticise him for because every single female betrayed him in the end whereas his legacy lives on today as one of the last great Britons.
Who said romance is dead? Showed my wife this to affirm that she has nothing to complain about, not my fault the happened to be a classic bike or car show wherever and whenever we go on holiday!. Got to cook my own dinner tonight.
Sad they didn't have a holiday, yea he worked hard but played hard without his family with his engines. He never understood what's truly important. He was married to his work and hobby, he even admitted it.
Lol even taking his family on a vacation he knocks down a chimney and in the pouring rain no less, might not have been the complete get away Alison expected.
I get goosebumps watching fred banging hooks into these smaller thin chimneys as everything he does relies on those few pins staying in so you want the builder of the chimney to have used decent cement mix and good solid techniques....imagine hammering a hook in for your ladder only for it to come loose just as youre feeding the next ladder up.....scary stuff.
I think that most of the force is pointed downwards. I think it would take a quite hard force outwards from the wall to pull the hook out. And the ladders are connected too.
Most old buildings are done with a lime mix or at least a 4 sand and 1 cement mix, very strong gauge, today's regulations is a 5 and 1 mix it's to weak lol
Well, maybe for them, back then it did ! There is the yin and yang in life, it is absolutely everywhere. Back then in that era the yin and yang was very clear, obvious, natural and people got it. In today's society, where boundaries and roles are very blurred and both sexes pretty much earn the same, and women want equality, men think like you, that the women should work just like the men. Fred was old fashioned, and personally, I prefer it that way. I believe a lot of women would rather go back to how it used to be, rather than turning out like men as they are today. (sorry, had to get that off my chest !).
Jez2008UK Some peoples idea of equality is equal work equal pay. And some people believe as far as work is concerned their gender is a get out of jail free card and just want the fun part
foundonly you don't see women wanting to equal out the disparity between men and women working in the shit dirty jobs that men dominate the dangerous jobs no it's always the nice fun well payed cushy jobs they want a part of
What a shame to demolish that chimney, i wonder why the owner wanted it gone??...its not freds fault but its so sad to see so many huge chimneys knocked down...theyre a great piece of history and structural engineering
It’s funny how people nowadays wouldn’t dare do this for a living. Then you have photos of people back then eating lunch on a skyscraper construction site.
If you were true working class and grew up around that time you would understand. The bloke did not have much money , that is why he was driving around in a clapped out ex-army landrover and ate cheese butties for dinner washed down with a flask of tea, no flashy new van and a paninni with fair trade coffee for Fred.Those days were hard. I never went on holiday when I was a kid because everyone was skint . I understand where this guy is coming from . He PAID for a holiday for her and the kids. Instead of spending money on a part he needed he worked on his holiday so she could buy fish and chips and ice-creams etc for the kids with the money saved from the bartered part. My missus grew up around the same time and SHE understands where Fred is coming from and thinks Alison was a moaner... Let her earn little money shinning 300ft up on a wooden ladder THEN she can whine about holidays . You can't compare todays self entitled society with back then . Unless you have lived through that time with no money , no carpets or wallpaper on the walls and relying on a coal fire with chopped trees on it to keep you warm then no-one should snub the man. He worked for a living instead of signing on the dole and staying at home . @msec Ses
@@gpo746 thing is he was getting paid a good amount for his work, on one job he got paid 3 grand and that was in the 80s , my dad bought his house for 9 grand in the 80s , other than that I totally agree with what u say
You shouldn't speak of the ill of the dead but I felt extremely sorry for the lady. Getting "soaked to the skin" isnt the right way of treating anyway one.
I'd rather do that as a job than be stuck inside a grey callcentre or garish shopping market for 9 hours a day. At least you get to use your hands and you get a sense of accomplishment at the end of it, rather than feeling like a chicken in a headset equipped coop every day. I'll take the red-headed wife, too ;)
I'm a huge fan of Fred's and I completely understand he was a very old school man's man but the guy really needed to learn how to also have a fulfilling family life away from chimneys and steam engines, it's no suprise he went through a few divorces. Go spend some valuable memories whilst on holiday with your kids, not knocking a chimney down.
@@TheMountainMongrel
Agreed
They knew exactly what they were getting into .
Pretty straightforward kind of fella
@RedBison.
I feel very similar. He’s a joy to watch and listen to, he’s charming and witty, and it makes me laugh, in some way, seeing him spend a holiday with his family knocking down a chimney, but mostly it makes my heart ache for his wife and kids to think of all the potential time they could have had with him that they missed out on.
@@TheMountainMongrel If you want a wife and kids you have to dedicate time and effort to them or they will leave, it's very simple. Of course every man has his hobbies and his job but he cant focus solely on those or he will be single in no time. It's not always about a woman "changing" a man.
@@Mr.M1STER Very well said.
@@Mr.M1STER Any relationship is 50/50 . Both have to adjust and adapt to ensure fairness . After his job Freds wife and children should always have come before steam engines .
Actually, it's Allison who was with him the longest and she appeared to at least try to take an interest in his work. I'd say she is a damn good woman.
Agreed.
Hard to find a woman like that. On holiday & grafting for her old man.
Agree. She loved Fred for who he was from the start and tried to make a go of it. I think the fame drove her away. The others came along because of it
She endured that's for sure
But when on holiday and cheated on him
Everything about this man was loud, Smokey, rough and brash. True legend.
You know when someone is really good at what they do, they make it look easy. Fred does this in every episode I've seen. You'd never catch me scaling a ladder or chimney, kudos to him!
Alison was a really good woman... Loved the family... ♥️♥️🇫🇷🇫🇷
Couldn’t even stop for a few days to be with his family.
I have always had a soft spot for Fred, but my mother hated him with a passion, and I never saw many of his series until much later, since whenever an episode would come on the TV, my mother would immediately switch it off.
Why did my mother hate Fred? Contrary to many statements, there were many blokes like Fred who emerged from the 1950's, and my father was one of them. Their idea of a woman's place was looking after the house, the kids, the washing/ironing, and waiting on them hand and foot.
My father, in the Victorian tradition, always ensured that we had a roof over our heads, clothes on our backs, food in our guts, and a holiday once a year, and his passions were steam locomotives, (railways being much in the family), cars, trucks, and the local pub.
Fred however, did not care for holidays, the finances for which were ploughed into his hobby. He had little respect for much of the modern world, being obsessed with his true passion for steam engines and all things Victorian. I truly believe that Fred was born in the wrong era, or was a reincarnation of a person from the Victorian age who seriously lamented being thrust into modern times.
I believe my mother concluded that Fred was much the same as my father in many respects, and that was probably the reason for her dislike of him. Maybe she saw much of my father in Fred.
Pity. I have always considered Fred as a down to earth hard working grafter, in a particularly dangerous profession. I think he made his mistakes, as we all do in life, was somewhat selfish, and could have done more to enhance his marital relationship, but there is no doubt that it took real guts to do the job he did. Like my father, he kept food on the table and a roof over his family's head. Today there are many that would not even do that.
RIP Fred Dibnah. I will miss your straight forward down to earth talking. Up in Heaven now, working on new steam engine projects.
plot twist: your mum was in love with ol Freddy
Good reflection post Ian.
Cheers for the comment. Good read, tells a real story.
I enjoyed reading this, and agree with it. Thanks
Your father was correct though....
I've seen quite a number of videos of Fred Dibnah now. (And I love them.) But whenever there's his family in the video, I feel bad for them. There's never any sign of an emotional connection with his wife of even his kids. When he's driving around the country on the steam engine, it seems he never even talks to the kids. Maybe it's just the way the videos are put together or I need to watch some more, I don't know.
But I prefer the videos where he's alone with his craft. There he is beyond excellent, absolutely no doubt about it.
He was blatantly Asperger’s , and people with Asperger’s are very cold to other people
There is some emotion but Fred was a very "traditional" man he was born 100 years too late
@@dietznutz1 Yes, that much is clear 😄👍
@@dietznutz1 in so many countries today, is the same, hundret millon people work hard 10 or 12 hours per day, is not much time for the family
The man just loved knocking the shit out of a chimney..
Alison was a champ ! Sad that they parted ways , but you can tell Fred wasn't easy man to live with , and Fred had stated a few times that they almost came to divorce preceding before the actual one did come about ! Alison eventually could not live like that anymore and I can understand her feelings on that !
there's not an awful lot of men that COULD do this job...I've been a stager for 30 years & I get scared just WATCHING these video's. He was definitely one of a kind with big brass ones.
Ah, you got vertigo or you don't. You can't really change it. Dibnah was lucky. He loved it, didn't he?
I wonder what his children thought about him. Imagine going back to school and writing an essay about your holidays.
Top man in his own way Fred. Can only imagine what memories his kids had of him, very little I suppose.
I have a picture of my young wife helping to dig the foundations for our first house on our weekends but that pales in comparison to Freds idea of a weekend away! lol
Fantastic stuff nothing like a picture of a woman doing some hard physical graft. Back in ca. 1987 I had one of my girlfriends at the time help dig cesspit in my uncles back garden.
I remember him doing this those yellow vans were the BT yard, great man bless him.
Where in Blackpool was this just curious?
R.I.P Fred, loverly man and worker, he made it look easy and more for his steam engine love you Fred colin from Surrey England 👍 👏 ❤
"You knock my chimney down and we'll supply a new steam engine part"....Wife is helping. Kids in the car watching. Pissing down with rain....Brings a lump to my throat....
Fred should have been a MGTOW. Not because women did him wrong, but because it wasn't fair on any woman to have to live that life.
RIP. What a true legend!
Allison was brilliant she was very hands on pretty lady 👍 Fred was brilliant at his job proper old school 👍
Now that's what I call an holiday!
It kept him off the bloody sand lol!
Allison is a good grafter not many woman would stand in th rain nd graft like that
It was all for the cameras. Who do you think was filming? They were getting paid double.
Rip Fred, one of a kind.
I love how he stay on that top rung .
And I just love his inventions on his ladder stays. And hooks.
Brilliant Man .
Should have been Knighted.
But then again best not ....looking at the crooks who have been knighted ....🤔
No wonder she left him
that's one impressive missus!
70% of ladder injuries happen when someone is carrying something while climbing… this guy said hold my beer!
Not many women would take on that way of life Allison was brilliant
He is a legend but don't forget the million of worker from the past who died sick and alone...
Normally dodged the rain old Fred as steeplejacks do but when it came to his engines 😂😂😂😂
"Give em a tap wit thammer." Haha
Guess we all feel a little envious of Fred with a wife like Alison to help him out.
Nice guy, fearless on heights.
A working holiday! Why not. An opportunity was there to get parts for his passion that was steam engines and he made short work of that chimney stack! The guy was a legend.
The guy Was a selfish pig. He had made a few quid since the TV shows and should have spent it on his kids and wife, instead he spent it on his steam engines; while they lived the same life as before. PIG of a man if you asked me. I judge a man by how he treats those closest to him.
@@sixbells99 alison was beautiful. shame
Oh Heathcliffe!
Yes, a modern day Kathy........I could see the look of romance in her eye as she hauled the ladder up in the driving rain.
God bless her
Who took the videos? This guy was an "internet star" before the internet!
No one works in the rain these days. Tough guy he was.
Really, spoken like an paper shuffler
Hard working man taken advantage of
Poor old Fred, what a star.
Good stuff this like, you know. Brave as owt, passionate about his graft. Good man. 🍻
Those no look aver the shoulder bricks thrown into the skip 👌😎
One thing I hate is a hard worker not getting paid.
Fantastic channel. Well done! We really enjoyed it.
Nice black RS2000 there behind the Land Rover
He was a workaholic..
Nowadays that building and All around the chimney would have to be scaffolded this was proper oldschool workmanship with no idiot from health and safety breathing down your neck LONG LIVE THE LEGEND FRED DIBNAH
Fred sure knew how to show a girl a good time,or not?
Sadly, she ended up leaving him. He did remarry however.
I'd leave too, we all gotta work but when it consumes your life till you cant have a family home life, would get very miserable for the spouse
I tent to agree & disagree.
100 years ago & to the rest of time before that, holidays didn’t exist, work was work, took the money whilst it was there.
She wouldn’t of had a holiday is it was for him working.
However I think I’d rather stay in bed & play with her that way on holiday.
He was like this when she married him, like all women, it's their right to change the man to suit them or divorce them for all their worth. He said in another video they could have semi retired but now he will be working till he is dead. It's white male privilege for anyone unsure of this situation.
@@AS-tg8xe Why do you weird old fucks have to pollute such wholesome content with your political tripe. Fuck off.
Ya know, I've been in the trades all my life. Been down in mines, been up on antennas and water towers. Work hard, and really enjoy it. I have the utmost respect for fred, and crazy appreciation of his work.
That said, he's an ass. His attitude towards family is just shy of appalling.
He did what he thought to be best.
He was a workaholic, could not sit still, it’s hard to knock the man for that but it’s easy to see why it created problems with his wife and kids. They never went hungry though and had a very nice roof over their head. Tough one, especially around that time what was expected of men was beginning to change massively and it didn’t suit them all.
Thomas. I don't agree. He didn't leave his family, or break it up, but he worked hard and provided. That's the test, not how others do it, which is generally get divorced, or start screwing around. You want him to be a new 21st Cent man? He wasn't that kind, some aren't.
She left him remember.
@@andy199121 I agree.
@Maxwell Boyne Sorry maxwell there’s a slight difference between fred and your grandad, He ran his own steeplejack business, restored 2 engines, renovated a beautiful house and had a tv career. Tbh, just aswell he did follow the path you criticise him for because every single female betrayed him in the end whereas his legacy lives on today as one of the last great Britons.
legend
Who said romance is dead? Showed my wife this to affirm that she has nothing to complain about, not my fault the happened to be a classic bike or car show wherever and whenever we go on holiday!. Got to cook my own dinner tonight.
Selfish self centred man, bringing kids and wife on holiday so he could get something for an engine, never thought about the kids or wife’s feelings
That’s a man with vision
A luminary,indeed@@haydnbrewer7426
Only surprise is that he didn't try and scale Blackpool tower.
hes a proper skilled man
and a character
Sad they didn't have a holiday, yea he worked hard but played hard without his family with his engines. He never understood what's truly important. He was married to his work and hobby, he even admitted it.
His poor wife!
What's that bit at the end about a gable and hotel?
Lol even taking his family on a vacation he knocks down a chimney and in the pouring rain no less, might not have been the complete get away Alison expected.
Lovely looking lady
RS 2000 mk 11 in shot as well.
Allison is no Donald..
I get goosebumps watching fred banging hooks into these smaller thin chimneys as everything he does relies on those few pins staying in so you want the builder of the chimney to have used decent cement mix and good solid techniques....imagine hammering a hook in for your ladder only for it to come loose just as youre feeding the next ladder up.....scary stuff.
I think that most of the force is pointed downwards. I think it would take a quite hard force outwards from the wall to pull the hook out. And the ladders are connected too.
Most old buildings are done with a lime mix or at least a 4 sand and 1 cement mix, very strong gauge, today's regulations is a 5 and 1 mix it's to weak lol
Put he subtitles on this and watch the AI try to cope with a Bolton accent
Are alison and the kids still about? I could do with a holiday
Women fought for equal rights why should they not help out they can’t have it every way
morning star he paid for the holiday
These are the guys that won WW2.
I believe we would have been too young
@@skycorrigan6511 people like him you duffus
@@skycorrigan6511 he was born in 1938. War started September 1939.
Why get rid of a chimney? If it's not in use and it's not in the way.
R.I.P great man!
What a man
Fred was a great man, except where marriage was concerned. Not surprising she left him.
😎😎😎😎👍
Depressing. Poor kids.
Its behind the old Casdons backing onto St Georges Field.
Ryan J hi Ryan where in Blackpool is that pal
Working man's holiday, poor wife and kids 😂
If would be nice to see how he finished off the job once the chimney was down fo roof level.
I dont know what Alison got in the divorce, it should have been a medal as big as a frying pan
Are you joking... She couldn't even hold ladder properly for worrying about her fringe.... Typical woman.
A few bricks probably.
That man must have had a yard full of ladders 🤣
Where in blackpool was he working on that particular day anybody know cheers
Up a chimney I think?
Women want fun, not working like a man. No wonder she left him, and I absolutely love this man. But this was no place for a woman, let alone a wife.
Jez2008UK
I guess some women think fun grows on trees.
Well, maybe for them, back then it did !
There is the yin and yang in life, it is absolutely everywhere. Back then in that era the yin and yang was very clear, obvious, natural and people got it. In today's society, where boundaries and roles are very blurred and both sexes pretty much earn the same, and women want equality, men think like you, that the women should work just like the men. Fred was old fashioned, and personally, I prefer it that way. I believe a lot of women would rather go back to how it used to be, rather than turning out like men as they are today. (sorry, had to get that off my chest !).
Jez2008UK
Some peoples idea of equality is equal work equal pay. And some people believe as far as work is concerned their gender is a get out of jail free card and just want the fun part
foundonly you don't see women wanting to equal out the disparity between men and women working in the shit dirty jobs that men dominate the dangerous jobs no it's always the nice fun well payed cushy jobs they want a part of
Has anybody ever got sunburned at Blackpool ?
I got rickets there.
‘Oliday with a capital O
Epic
Bloody hell fred no wonder she divorced you !
A selfish bar fly by all accounts. And in a country where drinking at the local bar is considered a hobby, very popular.
What a shame to demolish that chimney, i wonder why the owner wanted it gone??...its not freds fault but its so sad to see so many huge chimneys knocked down...theyre a great piece of history and structural engineering
Fred must look down on some of the delicate snowflakes we have allowed to breed and shake his head in disbelief. A true legend of a man.
I never heard him downtalk others though. Except in that one video, butthat was just reflectioning.
Doubt it
Alright love am coming down now
Poor Allison. I like her the best.
It’s funny how people nowadays wouldn’t dare do this for a living. Then you have photos of people back then eating lunch on a skyscraper construction site.
Love this guy, but he was out of order to get his wife involved.
She only gave him a hand to strap the ladder up. That would have been less than an hour.
Did you like that? 😁
It's sad that she took the girls and left Fred not long after.
I know I can't do this
Quite a character on film, but probably a shit to live with, if this video is anything to go by.
Please explain. .?
He’s a legend
I have to agree
If you were true working class and grew up around that time you would understand. The bloke did not have much money , that is why he was driving around in a clapped out ex-army landrover and ate cheese butties for dinner washed down with a flask of tea, no flashy new van and a paninni with fair trade coffee for Fred.Those days were hard. I never went on holiday when I was a kid because everyone was skint . I understand where this guy is coming from . He PAID for a holiday for her and the kids. Instead of spending money on a part he needed he worked on his holiday so she could buy fish and chips and ice-creams etc for the kids with the money saved from the bartered part. My missus grew up around the same time and SHE understands where Fred is coming from and thinks Alison was a moaner... Let her earn little money shinning 300ft up on a wooden ladder THEN she can whine about holidays . You can't compare todays self entitled society with back then . Unless you have lived through that time with no money , no carpets or wallpaper on the walls and relying on a coal fire with chopped trees on it to keep you warm then no-one should snub the man. He worked for a living instead of signing on the dole and staying at home . @msec Ses
@@gpo746 thing is he was getting paid a good amount for his work, on one job he got paid 3 grand and that was in the 80s , my dad bought his house for 9 grand in the 80s , other than that I totally agree with what u say
Bet he loved pies
You mean pork pies? They do taste good but it's just a lump of fat.
You shouldn't speak of the ill of the dead but I felt extremely sorry for the lady.
Getting "soaked to the skin" isnt the right way of treating anyway one.
I'd rather do that as a job than be stuck inside a grey callcentre or garish shopping market for 9 hours a day.
At least you get to use your hands and you get a sense of accomplishment at the end of it, rather than feeling like a chicken in a headset equipped coop every day.
I'll take the red-headed wife, too ;)
sander cohen
Bravo well said
Sadly, she ended up leaving him.
What amazes me is his spikes don’t just pull straight out. Must of been shit cement to just bang in like that.
i will take thee to blackpool lass t'FIX BLOODY BIG CHIMMNEY
Bless her....give the women a proper holiday. Just shows u, just because a man's successful in business doesn't mean he understands women
No one thinks that...
Whatever he gets paid, it's not enough