Heads up!! Fred Dibnah tribute...7.40..BBC2

[Wacky Racer]

Good old Fred......

[PatHeald]

Wacky Racer said:

Good old Fred......

Whose Steam Roller is that?

It's a Traction Engine baby.

Whose Traction Engine is that?

Fred's

Who's Fred?

Fred's dead baby, Fred's dead......

[pwig]

Bump

[matt_t16]

Amazing chap - he'll be sadly missed

[pwig]

[Mr E]

I really enjoyed that hour of telly. Straight talking, no bullshit, multi-talented stand up decent bloke who is not afraid of some (very) hard graft.

Much respect.

[ginge]

I had no idea that he had ben demolishing chimneys for so long. And his garden, how cool was that! What an amazing guy. Was it just me though or could you see that the arrow trick was going to go tits up on his first attempt

A great man who will be missed by a great many people.

[Rob-C]

Those final words about meeting IK Brunel made me

[mybrainhurts]

What a loss.

And the bad 'uns go on forever.......

[PatHeald]

ginge said:

I had no idea that he had been demolishing chimneys for so long....

I was brought up in Bolton through the 1970s and early 1980s.

When I was a lad there were loads of chimneys and Fred Dibnah demolished many of them, forever changing the skyline of the town. He was always on the front of the Bolton Evening News as another big chimney was felled.

There is a real irony that a man who spent so much of his life demolishing things became the country's greatest champion of our undervalued industrial heritage.

He was a fantastic anachronism, caught in a timewarp in the heart of the industrial revolution.

He was a reminder that the North West of England was once a place of worldwide importance and not just the vast semi-derelict council estate full of unemployed Scallys that it seems to have become.

Cheers, Fred.

Pat

[Alpineandy]

We're running out of british 'Good old boys'.

Cheers Fred, Wherever you are...

[Dr Strangelove]

This man should have received a knighthood long before he expired. Instead we live in an era that bestows 'greatness' upon idols and queens instead of kings. Arise, Sir Elton John...

[phatgixer]

When / how did he peg it?

[anniesdad]

Few weeks back, heart attack I think.

[phatgixer]

anniesdad said:

Few weeks back, heart attack I think.

So he has Ex-Spired? (sorry....)


Taxi!

[PetrolTed]

I take it that the 'Mrs Dibnah' in the last scene was a new model? She looked a somewhat different proposition from his original spouse.

[Phillvr6]

PetrolTed said:

I take it that the 'Mrs Dibnah' in the last scene was a new model? She looked a somewhat different proposition from his original spouse.

Mrs Dibnah Mk III if I'm not mistaken

[thub]

Number three, I think, Ted.

[anniesdad]

PetrolTed said:

I take it that the 'Mrs Dibnah' in the last scene was a new model? She looked a somewhat different proposition from his original spouse.

He had a "double dangle" affair sometime ago with a replacement.

Used to hang around with one of his daughter's..nice family. Very untidy back garden, as you can imagine.

edited: maybe i'm wrong.

>> Edited by anniesdad on Monday 6th December 13:26

[granville]

Although his passing is cause for great lamentation, there are others of his ilk.

The chap who coiffeurs my bonce, for example: the quintessential barber, even speaks eke-Dibnah.

Indeed, he has only just abandonned clogs, much to the consternation of his clientele and their racing dogs.

Fred's likening of Albion's current peril with the fall of Rome was inspired, his dismay at the abscence of work ethic and obsession with self gratification striking a profound chord with those of us watching from the environs of The Wheeltappers & Serf Oppressing Club.