Fred dibnah

[White Noise]

Absolute top fella . Met him once while working for Redrow Homes . I really cannot remember what the occasion was . Anyway I bought the man a pint . We were all clean and had nice new printed polo shirts . Whilst he had his old clothes on and top class minging hands to boot . What a guy , he actually told me when he got nervous he used to sing lol . To this day I have the up most respect for what he did and for what he stood for . Character and much more

[Stephen Blair]

Cheers that was excellent!

It still doesn't answer my ladder up round a big over hang, how does he get up past onto the ledge to tie the ladder on?

I'll keep looking tonight

[felixthelogchopper]

True legend and people like him are what built this country to what it used to be!

 

Got most of his books and dvd.

 

I never would have guessed you were a fan.

[mendiplogs]

True legend and people like him are what built this country to what it used to be!

 

Got most of his books and dvd.

 

HI IAN ive just seen more of fred on you tube mate he a great chap:thumbup1: thanks jon

[ArthurBottlesworth]

I did same

Bit of Dibnah fest from youtube .....

[Stephen Blair]

Cracking story Arthur, I bet that Night influenced your life massively!

[predator]

I did same

Bit of Dibnah fest from youtube .....

 

arthur i live down the road from burtonwood and as a young lad went to burtonwood steam fair on my uncle les,s shoulders i loved it walking round etc blast from the past eh!

[simonm]

I never knew how he got those ladders up there. or erected scaffold at the top took some guts to do that with no safety gear on just a leg round the ladders lol

[ArthurBottlesworth]

They were different times...

 

In school holidays we went to local colliery ( bickershaw ) and drove steam railway engines ( spitfire and hurricane ) taking lines of coal wagons a mie or so to join the BR. Lines ......BR then picked them up for delivery

 

That was a proper train set !

 

This was fine until BR got rid of steam, then following summer we were told " sorry lads been told you can't come any more"

 

Couple of posh lads at school bought steamroller and fired it by running over park benches , they sold it and bought steam shovel that was big enough to put mini in the bucket ...No idea where they are now.....they were older than me so never saw that close up...

 

Its unbelieveable now .......

[ArthurBottlesworth]

Predator my family originally came from Parr, St Helens

Went to atherton where my great grandad sank colliery shafts for gibfield colliery, he stayed on as colliery engineer, and built a railway engine ( general) which I'm told has been preserved, but I've never tracked it down

His son stayed on as colliery engineer at gib field colliery

I never knew either of them ........