I'm a 39 year old rural Northern Irish farmer, and this is basically why I spend too much time in village old-man pubs. All of the ol' lads talk like this. The delivery of every story and anecdote is so narrative and animated - their whole bodies be moving with enthusiasm over the seemingly most mundane ancient stories of their youth, or just their recent afternoon. It's a lost art of conversation - when we just stood around listening to people who we might not even agree with, but appreciate their individuality while getting on with our own lives.
It is like watching a play that writes itself, old rural communities definitely have turns of phrases and ways of talking that seem to be from another time. I think its magic to listen to. I am from Dublin, my auld fella was born on a farm in the West of Ireland. I found they all love asking questions telling stories, but are slow to give a straight answer!
58yrs I run an allotment with my mate Kenny he's 78 worked as a docker it's a privilege to listen to him talk about what a man's working life was like back in the day some funny stories some heart breaking stories about men killed by accident
As an older gentleman myself, growing up without much TV, no cell phones etc. You learn the gift of storytelling, you know who you are in life, and are proud of your heritage
74 and doing nightwatchman work. Wrap your head around that physical and mental competence. And offering to load up the lumber for the fire in the early hours. This guy did not sleep on the job. We are but shadows in the footsteps of these great men and woman.
I was born in the 90's but served me time as a bricklayer from 14 in between school, apprentice to me grandad who was, and still is cut from the same cloth as Dibnah and these owd boys and I can honestly say so often I feel very alone as a young man with these "old fashioned" views and values...and yet they are the things I hold dearest to my heart and treasure every day that I'm no longer able to labour for the old fella and soak up all this character and experience! These guys are my heroes!
I'm from the early 50's and born in Stockport with similar values. It is very refreshing to read that you appreciate and respect these fantastic workmen. Please retain your stance and do not feel "very alone." I am confident that you will go on to enjoy meeting others who hold these treasured views and values.
Ninjaturtle9001 w You mean served *my* time and *my* grandad. No wonder you have to go labouring and can't get a proper job, if you can't even write English!
I had the same experience here in NZ. I was in the very last school of apprentices who were taught the same work ethic and values as Fred. The last of the old school tradies. The young guys for the last 10-15 years, have been declining rapidly from what I've witnessed. And for the "educated ones" you might be able to construct and elegant sentence, but you forget that you wouldn't last a day on a building site. We all have our own unique set of skills, it doesn't make any one better than the other.
Lord High Admiral Of The Hobby Horse Marines thanks for the article, I find this sort of intergenerational conversation very engaging. Ninja turtle you sound like an admirable young man, I also agree with some of these others, keep up these values but when it comes to writing, do it correctly and express yourself with confidence
theres no such thing as "working class"....theres those that work hard - be they rich or poor - and lazy cunts - be they rich or poor........Fred was a hard working genius who loved a pint
Hey guys yes it's very sad he's past ,I'd only seen one episode and that was laddering a chimney. As I saw more parts of the this beautiful and professional documents that have been presented to us , I sadly learnt of his passing but I haven't seen all of the episodes yet He died in 2004 but I don't know what from . As I watch all of the parts I should find out but there's so much on him to see, I'm watching thing's outta order though. He is a legend and professional with his work . I was annoyed to hear his property was ransacked. It's so sad that there's people out there that steal from the dead . R I P Fred .
I agree with you buddy some would quiver in there shoes working with him . Let alone doing anything'to help him . I would of loved working with him . Some people are employed to hinder the hard working people to slow us down. We want to get on with the job ,cause I want the next job to do . It's the challenge.
We are lucky these documentaries were made when they were. These days the BBC wouldn't give the likes of Fred a look-in unless he declared at the beginning of every episode how disastrous the industrial revolution had been for the environment.
@@mikeznel6048 million peoples today work hard in the uk for feeding theyr family, in germany the same, many million people have theyr job and a second job today...
Hi......I am hoping you are at least 60yrs old......(.your taste in entertainment has changed.)......I am still watching old Spike Milligan Q series!! Please don't get depressed over it all.........the past..the present..and the future. Face the new world with a firm belief that you are rooted in the old. Red beans and lentils.
Fantastic. ! I'm a Londoner but boy these northern men had real character! What a week just before Christmas to 2018 to come to know this legend Fred Dibnah. A great Christmas present
Funniest quote I heard from Fred was when he was criticised for having a few pints before climbing a chimney. His reply? "You try this bloody job sober"!
This takes me back. My wife and I watched Fred many times over the years whilst enjoying a glass of ale and a plate of liver and tongue sandwiches. There was one episode where Fred was drinking and climbing and Terry from next door called in and watched it with us. Terry's a vegetarian but he had a glass of stout, Simpler times.
and he would be there ahead of you supping a well earned pint i live in liverpool and my brother is a bricklayer and he took me for my first pint in a bar side of the pub and i met the best type of tradesmen and down to earth men i loved it and it is sad to see all these pubs shutting down its the heart and sole of my liverpool city losing all the outer city pubs and we will never get it back so sad i learnt alot in these bars and the youth of today will never learn that so sad
@@paulparry3697 yeah there’s loads of pubs in Liverpool that have gone . The area I’m from the red house and the cygnet are long gone, but the black horse, the masons and the white house are still going .
I've met royaly and celebrities, rich men and street dwellers, and folk of all ages from many countries. Fred will always be one of my favourites. I had a pint with him and a few others at a steam rally in Malvern in the late '80s.
If that's correct, I'll bet that you paid for his pint, I knew him well through steam rallies, and he was as tight as f#?..never listened to anyone except himself. Actually, he was completely self centered, why do you think three wives gave him the bullet...
I loved the one when he took the family to Blackpool on holiday, he spent the day knocking down a chimney at an engineering shop and got paid with a new part for his steam engine.
I thought the empty look on his wife's face said that he went out at night for a drink leaving her to grind. That was a very sad episode. Probably her last straw. He was a pratt letting that go.
That's right his wife, Alison only got a holiday because Fred needed to get a new front tube-plate for the steam tractor. Also those yobs the old gent was referring to trashed Freds place and robbed the place for the brass & copper.
Plays Live I lived in a bedsit on Bromwich street the next street from freds house where hes referring to I hit hard times but it was rife with druggies and theives but they was not all the same in them bedsits ..I used go to freds yard helping him out and as a kid growing up ironically I lived 5 streets away from his childhood house just off burnden park he was a top fella was fred
I have seen noticed Fred on the television for years but never ever watched him only decided to watch his 1982 documentary on TH-cam last night and watched the whole series. What a man and what a character. My type of person, hard working and unique to himself 😎😎😎 sadly I hear he has passed now through RIP Fred dibnah
Listening to them talk reminded me of my Grandfather, a hard working man from Blackburn, could still catch us kids if we got too cheeky even at 80, they broke the mold when they made the likes of him and Fred, RIP
I know men who couldn’t bench press 225lbs if their life depended on it, but they can carry 4 sheets of drywall up 5 flights of stairs like it’s nothing. Some muscle is for show and some muscle is for go.
Empires are built by bullets the point of a bayonet. Please don’t sully Sir Frank as an imperialist. He served his community and his country. That’s more than good enough.
@CorePathway The British empire was the greatest empire of all time. The moment we left or handed the courtesy back they went straight back to barbarism.
He didn't even take out insurance on many of his jobs, unless they were for Mr Courtauld. Fred often said with the price of insurance, he'd rather 'take on his own back' if anything happened, even though he would have been a ruined man had one gone wrong
Priceless this !!. I’m a northern lad and I can tell ya , Bolton lads are super funny . They’ve always got a tale or two to tell and Fred was a superstar
Fred Dibnah is one a kind and we will never see another like him! The world is a very different place for the worse!!! The other fella sounded like Bernard Manning 😂
I was in India during Fred's demise, I got a text message telling me Fred had died, I was gobsmacked because I was taking photos of all the steam engines and listers littered about India, I was going to see him when I got back to show him the videos and photos. I still miss him.
Fred was truly down to earth bloke. A solid English man, with so many talents and skills. The very best of the British grafter. One of freds talents that stood out to me was his drawing skills. As long as these videos are available fred will always be remembered, and thought well of. Lots of love fred were ever you are
I loved it, Fred was a great guy to work with, as you can tell he loved to talk, but he was so very interesting and would reminisce about his past, he’s say how engineers would have made such a thing and today, there’s hardly anyone else who could do anything similar, the doss houses he was talking about are on Bradford street in the Haulgh area. Bedsit land and it’s getting smaller and smaller, there’s still drug use and prostitution round there, not that it would ever affect Fred in Tonge fold graveyard behind the back of his old home. Fred Dibnah, a true gent that would do ‘owt for you. RIP Fred,
American here. Love watching his videos. Those accents are so thick in the conversation I can’t even understand them except for a few things lol and I speak English as well
Strangely Fred just get better and better as more years pass. Loved the comment about there being no jobs for thickies anymore. Down to earth and honest and so insightful. Many thanks Fred, yet again.
"Eee lad erti owreet , dustha wanna brew." I had forgotten the local dialect on a visit to Lancashire after 30 years overseas. Apparently this means "young man are you okay, would you like a cup of tea?" and "thaz pictup th'ozzie twang" means "you have an Australian accent" To me all the people from Lancashire sound like Fred. Lovely Genuine friendly people.
Fred what an English legend i did have the luck to meet him at the Great Dorset Steam Fair somewhere in the 1990s I was a local lad who went every year lived in Poole dorset only 20 miles away but they way Fred spoke everyone understood
Best quote has gotta be.."Thought it were the back of the house falling out you know, turned out to be a gas explosion, missus came upstairs singed eyebrows and a big hole in her dress..."😆😆😆😆😆😆😅😅😅😅😅 RIP to a MASSIVE LEGEND!!!!!!!!!
It’s 3:30am, I’m getting ready for a long drive to the north, don’t know how or why I’m here watching Fred dibnah but, it’s made me giggle and that’s before I’ve had my cuppa tea. Watched a few of his videos and well, I say no more.
I'm a 39 year old rural Northern Irish farmer, and this is basically why I spend too much time in village old-man pubs. All of the ol' lads talk like this. The delivery of every story and anecdote is so narrative and animated - their whole bodies be moving with enthusiasm over the seemingly most mundane ancient stories of their youth, or just their recent afternoon. It's a lost art of conversation - when we just stood around listening to people who we might not even agree with, but appreciate their individuality while getting on with our own lives.
It is like watching a play that writes itself, old rural communities definitely have turns of phrases and ways of talking that seem to be from another time. I think its magic to listen to.
I am from Dublin, my auld fella was born on a farm in the West of Ireland. I found they all love asking questions telling stories, but are slow to give a straight answer!
58yrs I run an allotment with my mate Kenny he's 78 worked as a docker it's a privilege to listen to him talk about what a man's working life was like back in the day some funny stories some heart breaking stories about men killed by accident
I am Southern Irish but I understand what you what you mean. Pubs are incredible social spaces.
As an older gentleman myself, growing up without much TV, no cell phones etc. You learn the gift of storytelling, you know who you are in life, and are proud of your heritage
74 and doing nightwatchman work. Wrap your head around that physical and mental competence.
And offering to load up the lumber for the fire in the early hours. This guy did not sleep on the job.
We are but shadows in the footsteps of these great men and woman.
I was born in the 90's but served me time as a bricklayer from 14 in between school, apprentice to me grandad who was, and still is cut from the same cloth as Dibnah and these owd boys and I can honestly say so often I feel very alone as a young man with these "old fashioned" views and values...and yet they are the things I hold dearest to my heart and treasure every day that I'm no longer able to labour for the old fella and soak up all this character and experience! These guys are my heroes!
I'm from the early 50's and born in Stockport with similar values. It is very refreshing to read that you appreciate and respect these fantastic workmen. Please retain your stance and do not feel "very alone." I am confident that you will go on to enjoy meeting others who hold these treasured views and values.
Ninjaturtle9001 w You mean served *my* time and *my* grandad. No wonder you have to go labouring and can't get a proper job, if you can't even write English!
I had the same experience here in NZ.
I was in the very last school of apprentices who were taught the same work ethic and values as Fred. The last of the old school tradies.
The young guys for the last 10-15 years, have been declining rapidly from what I've witnessed.
And for the "educated ones" you might be able to construct and elegant sentence, but you forget that you wouldn't last a day on a building site. We all have our own unique set of skills, it doesn't make any one better than the other.
@@sickofit9247 Don't be a moron if he's correcting him. Bladclat.
Lord High Admiral Of The Hobby Horse Marines thanks for the article, I find this sort of intergenerational conversation very engaging. Ninja turtle you sound like an admirable young man, I also agree with some of these others, keep up these values but when it comes to writing, do it correctly and express yourself with confidence
Fred was and always will be a working class hero in my eyes it's sad he's gone 😥
but not forgotern
LEGEND! Sadly missed :(
theres no such thing as "working class"....theres those that work hard - be they rich or poor - and lazy cunts - be they rich or poor........Fred was a hard working genius who loved a pint
Hey guys yes it's very sad he's past ,I'd only seen one episode and that was laddering a chimney.
As I saw more parts of the this beautiful and professional documents that have been presented to us , I sadly learnt of his passing but I haven't seen all of the episodes yet
He died in 2004 but I don't know what from .
As I watch all of the parts I should find out but there's so much on him to see, I'm watching thing's outta order though.
He is a legend and professional with his work .
I was annoyed to hear his property was ransacked.
It's so sad that there's people out there that steal from the dead . R I P Fred .
I agree with you buddy some would quiver in there shoes working with him . Let alone doing anything'to help him .
I would of loved working with him . Some people are employed to hinder the hard working people to slow us down.
We want to get on with the job ,cause I want the next job to do . It's the challenge.
It's blokes like this which made Britain, wonderful to watch!
Back bone of Britain.... Top man..
I totally agree with ya. I'm so intrigued by this man.
die warlock shut up no he’s not
We are lucky these documentaries were made when they were. These days the BBC wouldn't give the likes of Fred a look-in unless he declared at the beginning of every episode how disastrous the industrial revolution had been for the environment.
Bermimham I believe to played major part steel works ect
Quality, Absolute legend it's people like fred that makes us proud to be British. A proper geezer rip fred
Proud to be northern more like.
Proper geezers,
fred's dead?! wtf?! i was gonna... nvm.. my dog died last week... didn;t need this right now.,. heart broken...
i feel like he was a father figure to me.. watche him all my life.. he's... my heart is broken...
There is no such thing as 'british' 😅
R.I.P. Fred, you were a legend, you will never be forgotten!
He still has something to teach all of us, the value of hard work, ingenuity, and integrity.
And enterprise. The stuff that made Britain Great, Fred knew all about that..
Not all of us need that lesson. Don’t get me wrong, lots of people, well most people now a days, do need that lesson.
@@mikeznel6048 oh please
@@mikeznel6048 million peoples today work hard in the uk for feeding theyr family, in germany the same, many million people have theyr job and a second job today...
I could watch this all day. My taste in what is entertaining and intersting has changed somewhat in last couple of months. These were real men.
A reminder of normality
Hi......I am hoping you are at least 60yrs old......(.your taste in entertainment has changed.)......I am still watching old Spike Milligan Q series!!
Please don't get depressed over it all.........the past..the present..and the future. Face the new world with a firm belief that you are rooted in the old. Red beans and lentils.
I could listen to these two all day and night too, what a wonderful generation.
Fantastic. ! I'm a Londoner but boy these northern men had real character! What a week just before Christmas to 2018 to come to know this legend Fred Dibnah. A great Christmas present
Yes I'd travel back in time just to sit in pub with him & have pint 👍
They are few and far between these days but you do still find them at work or in the pub, can't beat the proper old boys
Can’t believe how quickly time flies when Fred is in full swing. A real treat, thanks for sharing 👍
Funniest quote I heard from Fred was when he was criticised for having a few pints before climbing a chimney.
His reply?
"You try this bloody job sober"!
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"Yeah yeah, yeah... yeah yeah yeah, oh eyy yeah, nah yeah, yeah... oh eyy... yeah"
- Fred Dibnah
1938 - 2004
remember reeece callows insignificant comment. 2018. Wow, Not........;)
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My dad knew him, and sounded exactly the same. This old accent has nearly disappeared, it's incredibly sad. Long live Lancashire.
Yeah yeah yeah Yeahs.
I would have loved to meet him .
Breaks my heart one of my childhood heros is not with us any longer.....thanks to the archive for making perpetually available. Rip Fred.
This takes me back. My wife and I watched Fred many times over the years whilst enjoying a glass of ale and a plate of liver and tongue sandwiches. There was one episode where Fred was drinking and climbing and Terry from next door called in and watched it with us. Terry's a vegetarian but he had a glass of stout, Simpler times.
I could listen to these two talk all night.
I'd listen about 20 minutes...then slope off to the pub :{P
Captain Snort
Aye and they'd keep you up all night and all :)
and he would be there ahead of you supping a well earned pint i live in liverpool and my brother is a bricklayer and he took me for my first pint in a bar side of the pub and i met the best type of tradesmen and down to earth men i loved it and it is sad to see all these pubs shutting down its the heart and sole of my liverpool city losing all the outer city pubs and we will never get it back so sad i learnt alot in these bars and the youth of today will never learn that so sad
@@paulparry3697 yeah there’s loads of pubs in Liverpool that have gone . The area I’m from the red house and the cygnet are long gone, but the black horse, the masons and the white house are still going .
I could listen to Fred, the other narcissist would do my tree in!
74 and working nights another tough old boy
I've met royaly and celebrities, rich men and street dwellers, and folk of all ages from many countries. Fred will always be one of my favourites. I had a pint with him and a few others at a steam rally in Malvern in the late '80s.
Excellent memory ❤
If that's correct, I'll bet that you paid for his pint, I knew him well through steam rallies, and he was as tight as f#?..never listened to anyone except himself. Actually, he was completely self centered, why do you think three wives gave him the bullet...
I’m truly jealous that you got to meet him and I never got the chance, rest in peace fred you were one of a kind
yes,fred was a legend through and through,phenomenal intelligence,integrity,and true british grit.
I loved the one when he took the family to Blackpool on holiday, he spent the day knocking down a chimney at an engineering shop and got paid with a new part for his steam engine.
I thought the empty look on his wife's face said that he went out at night for a drink leaving her to grind. That was a very sad episode. Probably her last straw. He was a pratt letting that go.
That's right his wife, Alison only got a holiday because Fred needed to get a new front tube-plate for the steam tractor.
Also those yobs the old gent was referring to trashed Freds place and robbed the place for the brass & copper.
In the pissin down rain with the Mrs on the ropes 😂 legend
I do too hate how now a days people think life revolves around pleasure like fred says some has pay for it
Fred Dibnah was a great bloke
honestly... i could listen to them for the rest of my life and never get bored and i would have worked for fred for just tea and a sandwich 🇬🇧
Good old Fred !! What a proper grafter , God bless him !!
Fred was a grafter all right, but he understood that the younger generation was robbed of opportunity.
Makes you wonder, the stuff he could achieve at his age, people 20 years younger these days couldnt manage what he did.
"The jobs for thickies are all gone" CRYING!
Thickies?.... making some sort of point?
Alan Thomas Fred said it you fool , watch it before you get on your high horse
8:43
He was right. Nothing foolish about the comment, snowflakes....
Plays Live I lived in a bedsit on Bromwich street the next street from freds house where hes referring to I hit hard times but it was rife with druggies and theives but they was not all the same in them bedsits ..I used go to freds yard helping him out and as a kid growing up ironically I lived 5 streets away from his childhood house just off burnden park he was a top fella was fred
Fred was an absolute legend, a real character and a hard working man . RIP
Fred was a legend!there's only one Fred Dinah and he will be so sadly missed from Bolton to Timbuktu..Rip Fred we mis u....
You can't beat fred and his hooter.The man had true northern grit,tough as old boots.
Doss houses 🤣 not heard that phrase for a long time
In the days of bed bugs and Meth drinkers, that's Methylated Spirits for those who don't know
I have seen noticed Fred on the television for years but never ever watched him only decided to watch his 1982 documentary on TH-cam last night and watched the whole series. What a man and what a character. My type of person, hard working and unique to himself 😎😎😎 sadly I hear he has passed now through RIP Fred dibnah
Driving through Bolton and couldn't help but detour to see the chimney he built on his mother's house when I believe he was just 16! Amazing man.
Fred was a legend wasnt afraid of nowt hard working and a nice bloke rest in peace fred much missed
Fred gave that guy in the green jumper all the time in the world, shows what a guy Fred was
I mean he was probably very aware that he was being filmed .. wouldn't do to be seen being rude to the guy 😂
I have just reacquainted myself with Fred. This is how reality tv should be. Crazy people doing crazy jobs lol. The guy was freakin' LEGEND.
Listening to them talk reminded me of my Grandfather, a hard working man from Blackburn, could still catch us kids if we got too cheeky even at 80, they broke the mold when they made the likes of him and Fred, RIP
They don't make men like this anymore RIP fred you were a true legend
What a lovely chat they had! Most of their pearls of wisdom can still be applied today.
Are you going for ,"A swift half". The rest of the world do not know what that means.
Fred you left us too soon. RIP
I bet my house it wouldn't be a just a half either.
Ed Jones - it always starts with just the half, and the best of intentions.
Got to clear the brick dust from your throat somehow.
just to wet the whistle.......nine pints later the missus comes storming in and you end up wearing your dinner.
half x 12. decent prices back then
You are viewing here such quality individuals, the likes of whom you will most probably never see again.
Look at his arms. He was strong as an ox. That proper wirey worker type strength you can't get from going to the gym!
I did a lot of painting. Up and down the ladders is a work out
I know men who couldn’t bench press 225lbs if their life depended on it, but they can carry 4 sheets of drywall up 5 flights of stairs like it’s nothing. Some muscle is for show and some muscle is for go.
I’m a plasterer Pal and there’s no way I could carry four boards on flat never mind up the stairs he must have been the Incredible Hulk 😂
@@SJM6791
Dont talk shit, if they can carry 4 sheets upstairs they must be built like brick shit house
@@SJM6791 Hahahhaaa, oh that were funny!
It was men like Fred who built the empire. In fact, you could say that he was a living link to the age of empire. RIP Fred.
Empires are built by bullets the point of a bayonet. Please don’t sully Sir Frank as an imperialist. He served his community and his country. That’s more than good enough.
I speak of the empire built on steam and steel. Also, it's Fred not Frank and he wasn't a Sir. He was awarded a MBE not an OBE.
@CorePathway The British empire was the greatest empire of all time. The moment we left or handed the courtesy back they went straight back to barbarism.
The British Empire nothing to be proud of...a source of Shane for the misery it caused to millions so a few wealthy families would get wealthier
@@seanrohan5829 and today it still the same ...LOOK ZIZILENSKIYY IS ABOUT
been binge watching fred after accidentally stumbling across a video. what a top bloke he was, would have loved to go for a pint with him.
my love for Fred Dibnah knows no bounds
The man was a Legend with balls of steel, how he climbed them heights with a wooden ladder says it all. R.I.P. Fred Dibnah.
Health and safety? What health and safety? How he did some of the jobs he did amazes me
Back when men knew they were men and not a woman or non-binary! 😂
He didn't even take out insurance on many of his jobs, unless they were for Mr Courtauld. Fred often said with the price of insurance, he'd rather 'take on his own back' if anything happened, even though he would have been a ruined man had one gone wrong
Priceless this !!. I’m a northern lad and I can tell ya , Bolton lads are super funny . They’ve always got a tale or two to tell and Fred was a superstar
A lot of truth in this. What a conversation, a lot of people could learn a lot from listening to these two gents conversing.
Thanks, I loved this. Never saw the series when broadcast, then saw a clip one day and straight away bought the DVD: fascinating character.
The jobs for thickies are all gone. I spat my tea out laughing at that. Fred you are missed a true very wise man. The man was a genius
Yes, thats funny. No jobs for thickies! Whos the comedian from Liverpool who talks about the thick table?
Love Fred's spot on analysis on modern society the other geezer look like Brian Glover out of Ken Loach's 'Kes' , pure class!
Jobs for thickies are all gone now, then the guy says "Well I told him to get a post man's job! Lol
Are you going for ,"A swift half". The rest of the world do not know what that means.
Fred you left us too soon. RIP
Fred was no thickie.
I'm only 36 and worked on the demo all my life and this is why love these old boys proper lads
"The jobs for thickies are all gone like...!" excellent comment from Fred.
I wish I could take up Freds offer of a pint after the chimney went down.
Amazing video made me feel like I was there.
Watching the chimney fall down then go for a pint...that's be a good day.
Salt of the blinking earth, sadly a past generation.
Fred Dibnah is one a kind and we will never see another like him! The world is a very different place for the worse!!! The other fella sounded like Bernard Manning 😂
Brilliant! Reminds me of my childhood listening to my granddad talk. I love Lancashire. Hard gritty but the best folk!
Bless them both x
A Legend ...gone but not forgotten..Young fellas today would be crying for Mamma if they had to go up them ladders to earn their pay.
Not with what Fred was earning to do it 🤣
Freds dibble's were always amusing, perhaps he was the funniest dibbler of all time!
I could listen to Fred all day long
What a great bloke Fred was. Men like him are a dieing breed sadly. RIP Fred.
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You hit the nail on the head,A dying bread! it’s a complete shame that his generation disappeared and never to return so sad.
Reminds me of the kind of chat I used to hear down the pub in the 70s
I was in India during Fred's demise, I got a text message telling me Fred had died, I was gobsmacked because I was taking photos of all the steam engines and listers littered about India, I was going to see him when I got back to show him the videos and photos. I still miss him.
Absolute class, wat a legend RIP Fred 👊😎👊
Can't have too much Dibnah. Legend.
Yer, I liked it. A lot.
They don't make old fellas like that any more.
Thought fred was speaking to Brian Glover at first.
True that
Yer yer
I like his flat cap
rather watch the cimney fall
Fred could do things which many couldnt do....his work laddering chimmneys is amazing...this guy was a one man wonder
Remember that other man , Blaster bates who blew up towers , he also was a legend with some very funny stories 😄
What a real man, this is the kind of people who made England great
Fred was truly down to earth bloke. A solid English man, with so many talents and skills. The very best of the British grafter. One of freds talents that stood out to me was his drawing skills. As long as these videos are available fred will always be remembered, and thought well of. Lots of love fred were ever you are
Britain was built by men and women with pride in their work. I still love to see old timers dressed up in suit and tie off to do their shopping!
Micheal Prendergast no.
@Harvey7878 these bellends hate there own culture and history Marxists the lot of em.
RIP Fred
I want a “The jobs for thickies are all gone” T-shirt.
A national treasure terribly missed
Blue collar workers RULE. The toughest, brightest, honorable, trustworthy, & so on.
FRED THE LEGEND
I loved it, Fred was a great guy to work with, as you can tell he loved to talk, but he was so very interesting and would reminisce about his past, he’s say how engineers would have made such a thing and today, there’s hardly anyone else who could do anything similar, the doss houses he was talking about are on Bradford street in the Haulgh area. Bedsit land and it’s getting smaller and smaller, there’s still drug use and prostitution round there, not that it would ever affect Fred in Tonge fold graveyard behind the back of his old home. Fred Dibnah, a true gent that would do ‘owt for you. RIP Fred,
Night watchmen, he doesn't give me a light. Lol.
Must be the polite version of "he wouldn't give the steam off his piss"
Sounds like a right layabout that nephew what about The Busby 'babies' , think he meant babes , looks like Leon Arris the ITV wrestler
American here. Love watching his videos. Those accents are so thick in the conversation I can’t even understand them except for a few things lol and I speak English as well
Thanks to TH-cam! In this way Fred is just living for us!
I can just imagine the night watch man with an oil lamp and corrugated hut at night..great video.
Seen all these videos before, but always come to watch them all again every now n then .
Strangely Fred just get better and better as more years pass. Loved the comment about there being no jobs for thickies anymore. Down to earth and honest and so insightful. Many thanks Fred, yet again.
"I could hardly tell what they were bloody talking about wi' lingo like, their accent y'know" Fred was an amazing guy
Brilliant.....could listen to these two all day...respect...
True British bloke. Legend.
Every day I would hear the old fellas of Ormskirk, Lancashire talking like that, brings back good memory's
Great
I liked the bit when he said ‘all the jobs for the thickies have gone!’😂
Absolute legend. I worked for a fella just like this when I left school. I'll never forget the life lessons he taught me.
Bless. Always loved Fred... "There's Nowt So Queer As Folk" RIP Fred, Mike x
They've got a good point. Would've loved a chat with Fred
Brilliant! Reminded me of when I was an apprentice in a Lancashire iron foundry. The tales were amazing!
"Eee lad erti owreet , dustha wanna brew." I had forgotten the local dialect on a visit to
Lancashire after 30 years overseas. Apparently this means "young man are you okay,
would you like a cup of tea?" and "thaz pictup th'ozzie twang" means "you have an Australian accent" To me all the people from Lancashire sound like Fred. Lovely
Genuine friendly people.
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry, a fantastic video
Enjoyed every second of this, thanks for posting.
www.bitchute.com/channel/legend/
Fred what an English legend i did have the luck to meet him at the Great Dorset Steam Fair somewhere in the 1990s I was a local lad who went every year lived in Poole dorset only 20 miles away but they way Fred spoke everyone understood
I told my mate to be a postman, i said to him “listen it’s better than walking the streets aint it”
To be fair that's literally what a postman does.
@Cat Olefunt Lol.. straight over it!!!!
@@AlexR2648 Doh!!
These men are from my Era. Love it.
He.s boltonian like myself from Bolton ... His house he had on the series is now heritage centre to him
MAN CITY FAN FROM BOLTON AHAH
It's all gone.
His house is for sale right now on Right Move
If we all lived a bit more like Fred Dibnah did, the world would be a happier place.
Rest in peace you complete legend
That watchy looks like he'd of been a handful in his day.....Hard as nails.........................Great video Cheers
they were prob drinking special brews, laffin
Cracking jumper he has on.
Definitely knew how to take a dig if he'd been in with the Christian Brothers.
I thought that as well so I saw you wrote it and gave you a like and a comment.
Best quote has gotta be.."Thought it were the back of the house falling out you know, turned out to be a gas explosion, missus came upstairs singed eyebrows and a big hole in her dress..."😆😆😆😆😆😆😅😅😅😅😅 RIP to a MASSIVE LEGEND!!!!!!!!!
Never let it be said that someone speaks more than Fred 🤣🤣
It’s 3:30am, I’m getting ready for a long drive to the north, don’t know how or why I’m here watching Fred dibnah but, it’s made me giggle and that’s before I’ve had my cuppa tea. Watched a few of his videos and well, I say no more.
"The jobs for thickies are all gone", never a truer word said Fred!
That's why the 16 to 18 Yr olds for the past 25 yrs or so hve been forced to go to 'college'. There are no jobs or old fashioned apprenticeships.
@@irenejohnston6802 Yes, because a lot of the unskilled jobs have now been automated and lost.