A Year with Fred - A Beautiful Pile of Bricks (part 2)
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- A Year with Fred (A beautiful Pile of Bricks) part 2
A repeat broadcast from 1991 of the BBC2 series about Bolton Steelplejack Fred Dibnah.
Date: Thursday 15th August 1991
Idk you Dag Jab, but gd it if I don't love ya for posting all these Dibnah classics.
The thing about Fred's work was everyone could get involved and give a hand. His work made it a community affair, no one minded getting dirty because you were part of something happening in your community. Fred was more than his work, he was a spokesman for a bygone age, we miss him you Fred, from across the pond they. 🍀🇮🇪😉
One word sums Fred up LEGEND
Nice to see the original footage. There's parts that you don't see on the newer DVDs. What an epic man .
A Year With Fred has not been transferred to DVD unlike the 1979 and 1982 documentaries.It was broadcast originally in October 1986 and repeated in 1991 and 1994
@@scottptolomey3498 I am a huge fan of Fred Dibnah I have quite alot of his tools all his books Mags ect . And a working steam model of his engine shed that has 3 line shafts powering 11 tools powered by a steam roller
Imagine letting kids help with something like that today
Fred a unique man amongst men, I’ll keep watching theses insights into his unusual talent, “off to the pub” cheers sir the 1st ones on me. ❤️
We'll miss you Fred R.I.P😢
Thank you for uploading this series.
No worries
Thank you for these.What a wonderful man.So missed x
No worries, thanks for that:)
Mind your haircut . when she lighting the fire brilliant 😆 thanks for uploading 👍
Great seeing this again wish they brought it out on DVD like the first series back in 1982
Strange it has never been repeated in more recent years, only got repeated in 1995. It is a pity it's not on DVD in better quality, but I do wonder if maybe there's some legal issue with it maybe due to lack of permission from Fred's ex wives. Could be just that they aren't bothered about it. Speaking of Fred's ex wives, but I wonder where they are now, I'm guessing second wife Sue is still alive.
@@Embracing01 I remember the original series being broadcast back in September 1986 and repeated in 1991 and 1994 notably the Dart Mill tower at Tonge Moor Bolton (Ironically Fred demolished Dart Mill chimney in the late 1960s and was virtually unknown then !!) and Park Mill chimney at Hollinwood near Oldham were dropped the year before Fred was usually contracted by Harry at Forshaw Demolition in Westhoughton (He’s the site contractor with Fred in the film so you knew Fred would be dropping the chimneys when that firm was knocking the mills down.
Met Fred several times between 1986 and 2004 when he brought the stacks down he was a full on passionate bloke about everything he did and he took real pride in it I watched him drop his 90th at Royton (Park Mill ) and ironically I worked at that mill years before and now live where it once stood An absolute grafter right till the end.
Thanks for putting this up
Love that Freds basically using the same technique used to bring down city/castle walls. .
Brilliant bud!
This day and age breathing in all those tyre fumes could not have been good even for those tough old guys
Fred.
Knew his job.
Kept it simples.
Common sense approach.
Job done.
Totally undermined & removed need for costly risk assessment nonsense.
It’s a wonder how anything gets done these days! 🙄
When kids could be kids
''Did you that'' yes Fred we did! 😀 Allison was a lovely woman!! 😜
'Last one I did was a clanger'... he never bs'd about anything did he.
I like the part where he's got a bucket of diesel and a cigarette in his hand.
diesel wont egnite off a lit cigarette, unlike petrol, infact you could put a lit cig into diesel & it would put the cig out, but when wood or rubbish is soaked with it, it will help it burn, esp if the wood etc is damp
great video bud betomax lol
all that dust and asbesto
Letting kids help pile up tires round building held up with old telegraph poles
Funny how he smoked like a chimney.
Normally I don't like health and safety rules but looking at this I can totally understand why they brought it in.. Fred will always be a legend
Personally I think health and safety is about control, or rather a convenient excuse to control people and their movements and where they can or can't go. I've noticed alot of this over the years, but it's always done in very incremental baby steps like a totalitarian regime, pretty much the way they role out CCTV cameras everywhere (supposedly for our safety). For example, it's got a point now where, in many places in the UK, you can't even walk over a road over bridge crossing a train line, stop for a moment and just casually watch a train passing by and under that bridge because now they've rebricked up the bridge to an height where you can't see over it, any my stations footbrige like this also where they have placed a metal border around the edge so people can't stand there watching a passing train. Now I know most people will believe that this is because of the electrified wires, but we've had those things for years but only now they've ramped up the safety nonsense. I really do think this is really about stopping people just innocently doing something that we used to do that was of no harm to anyone and taking it away from us under the guise of "safety". If someone wanted to jump off a bridge and mess with power lines and kill themselves a 7ft wall wouldn't stop them, but this isn't about safety as I said it's about control (in alot of ways anyway).
@@Embracing01 Yeah your'e totally right. We should just allow children to wander into demolition sites to get coated in highly toxic fumes and crushed by falling bricks.
@@Embracing01👏👏
@@Embracing01you're talking nonsense. Health and safety measures have seriously reduced injury and death on construction sites. It only takes one mistake to end terribly
£650 to knock that down!
Cor..Fred liked 'em young...he s old enough to be her ole man...
He reminds me a bit of Richard Harrow off Broadwalk Empire
Shes older than Fred
Fred only weakness was women i think 😜
Mad how many tyres he must have burnt, there would be uproar today