Life with Fred (Spring Again) part 1 A repeat broadcast from 1995 of the BBC2 series about Bolton Steeplejack Fred Dibnah which was first shown in March 1994. Date: Thursday 23rd February 1995
Thought I watched them all then found this. Probably the happiest and most pure I have seen this man.
@SG-wi9kd
5 ай бұрын
This man was a legend. Hard as nails and an incredibly nice guy.
@Bigtimecharliepotatoes
8 ай бұрын
When Fred said how we have had our time. How right he was 😢
@sassythesasquatch1571
Жыл бұрын
Fred was a legend, hearing him talk about his kid was nice
@callummorgan5058
2 жыл бұрын
Love fred dibnah absolute legend miss him he was a great person really said that I never had a chance to meet him as he died in 2004 3yrs after I was born
@macthedrummer1
Жыл бұрын
Fred didn`t have a stop button. Always in motion. RIP Fred.
@ElDantae
8 ай бұрын
I haven't seen this one, thank you for uploading!!
@Embracing01
8 ай бұрын
No worries, thanks
@garethjudd5840
2 жыл бұрын
Fred's wife reminds me of Wallace's girlfriend Wendoline from A Close Shave. "Oh no! I can't stand cheese. Brings me out in a rash" 😂
@RobertLocksley385
Жыл бұрын
Welcome the Northern England.
@pawelwis7215
Жыл бұрын
What is wrong about her? She is fine and completely fuckable :D
@sunnyjim1355
Жыл бұрын
Fred had a great taste in engines and a terrible taste in women, and here's the proof. 6:30
@DaedalianAbilon
Жыл бұрын
Exactly. Weak wife, weak man.
@mjkrbjcw
Жыл бұрын
“I have a wash more now , I never used too “ 😂😂😂
@RobertLocksley385
Жыл бұрын
That's me Grandad Bill Neale of Pleasley, in the County of Notts from 1921 to 2005. "A bath? What do I want one of them for?".
@123TauruZ321
2 жыл бұрын
These are gold!!! Thanks so much for uploading!!!!
@Embracing01
2 жыл бұрын
No worries
@eliotreader8220
2 жыл бұрын
@@Embracing01 I believe Fred was very supportive of the steam apprentice club founded by the national traction engine trust
@KidMillions
8 ай бұрын
I like how she says she doesn't expect him to do half of the housework, but really she does. It's like him expecting she does half of every chimney.
@waynebailey8796
Жыл бұрын
I would have loved to have known this man,, could you imagine going for a beer with him, you'd never stop smiling.
@jackmehoff1840
3 ай бұрын
Fred's favorite shirt colour seems to be a shade of oil
@mentzerr
2 жыл бұрын
bloody heck aint fred got enough to do for gods sake . WOMEN .
@jimbog8397
Жыл бұрын
The way he balanced on the scaffolding like it was his living room at 7.20.
@mattevans3637
2 жыл бұрын
Well done for these
@Embracing01
2 жыл бұрын
Cheers
@deeppurple883
2 жыл бұрын
To be able to say that you worked with Fred Could open up door's otherwise closed to mear mortals. Fred was a all rounder. Well missed buddy, Right said Fred 🍀🇮🇪
@kev6294
Жыл бұрын
What a legend
@johncourtneidge
Ай бұрын
Lovely!
@DavidSmith-qd7fd
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@glennpowell3444
2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact.The tallest brick stack ever built in the UK was actually in Scotland outside Edingurgh.It was over 400 foot and had to be reduced several times due to rotten mortar before eventually being dropped .The tallest stack now is also in Scotland and is 307 feet.(or was)
@chrisbeech4458
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that info I can now sleep safely at night
@erikkennedy
Жыл бұрын
Hell yeah. Scottish chimneys FTW.
@Marcjacobs97
Жыл бұрын
@@chrisbeech4458 I know, right! I fucking hate information too.
@frasercheyne8332
Жыл бұрын
Well us Scots are closer to god after all
@Eleventhearlofmars
Жыл бұрын
@@chrisbeech4458 you can’t beat interesting facts lol.
@handsoffmycactus2958
2 жыл бұрын
Why did people look so much older back then? Guys in their 50s and early 60s now look mostly so much better!!!! Fit even in some cases
@stevec9653
2 жыл бұрын
A lifetime of hard manual work
@Embracing01
2 жыл бұрын
People did look older then. Parents of young children back then looked like they were in their early 40s, yet today they all look like they just left school a week earlier. I suppose alot of blokes in the 80s grew mustache's like Kevin Webster which seemed to be a trend back then, so it probably made em look older. I wouldn't say people are healthier though now, all the crap junk takeaway food and supermarket rubbish which is just processed doesn't help, even the fruit and veg loses its nutrients because it takes so long to get from the field to the shop, but I doubt people are ever going to grow their own food in any time soon.
@eliotreader8220
2 жыл бұрын
@@Embracing01 Its a shame what's happened to Fred's belt driven workshop in recent years. I understand a steam engine magazine called Old Glory did a big news story on the sale of the stuff in the back garden. I believe the guy wanted 15 pounds for one of Fred's ladders. I don't remember reading any information on what Fred's hand tools and belt driven workshop tools went for. I understand the guy originally wanted to return Fred's workshop to steam but because they couldn't rise enough money to have a new boiler made. they decided to sell it off. I hope Fred's tools will be used to repair steam engines.
@ShadSimm
2 жыл бұрын
@@Embracing01 has Kevin Webster still got his moustache and bomber jacket?
@chrish1657
Жыл бұрын
Cigarettes, alcohol and shit food.
@AnthonyWilliams-ew3wp
2 жыл бұрын
Another gold digger who let him down
@erikkennedy
Жыл бұрын
Holy cow, that Gilnow Mill geezer (9:44) was tall compared to Fred. Just saying.
@LisaJones-fp3ee
Жыл бұрын
Haha,I'm sure he's standing in a hole!!
@Eleventhearlofmars
Жыл бұрын
Similar to me and the mrs lol, I’m 6 ft 6 and she’s 4ft 10, the poison dwarf I call her. 😂
@nigelcarren
9 ай бұрын
In my French village they call me The English Giant, because I stand barefoot at a stagerring 5'8"
@longjohn77
2 ай бұрын
😂@@nigelcarren
@chrish1657
Жыл бұрын
"Ermaseksuals and kweeerz" 🤣
@88njtrigg88
Жыл бұрын
Mike Rowe heat your heart out.
@Embracing01
2 жыл бұрын
Today people would think Jack was Fred's great grandson lol. Lots of people these days who are only in their early 40s and they are already grandparents, probably because they had their kids when they were barely out of school. When I was young a grandparent was someone who looked like a grandparent should look, someone old with grey hair, usually in retirement age between the age of about 55-70, now they're getting younger and younger like the parents. No wonder people think there's too many people in the world lol.
@Bendog300
Жыл бұрын
wow FRED is hitting nails on the head! thank god hes not alive today to witness the decay of society and the sheer contempt for the Eglish culture and history! like he said at the end of the Roman Empire!
@nathanbellamy3308
Жыл бұрын
The OG steam punk
@jamesdeluca6657
12 күн бұрын
I seriously cant believe what shes saying ,jeeesh it was like this back then!!! Get a job lady ,unbelievable
@77lassiter15
9 ай бұрын
Fascinating that Rome "went queer and homosexual " and then went downhill never knew that gosh thanks Freddie
@alexthomas637
2 жыл бұрын
👏👏👍
@MEVD2011
27 күн бұрын
90/10 for house work but grafting and earning the poppy 100% to nil but he never complained
@michaelgibson4705
9 ай бұрын
Can anyone hear Carnival in Venice without thinking of Fred
@GenaF
9 ай бұрын
9:32 Fred looks tiny next to the fella he is talking with
@ianbetts4435
7 ай бұрын
Poor old Fred having to do housework 😂
@sloopycat1954
Жыл бұрын
Jacks a funny looking creature
@RobertLocksley385
Жыл бұрын
His dad without the 'tache and cap.
@sloopycat1954
Жыл бұрын
Lol yes he does look like his dad bless them both.
@newday2447
6 ай бұрын
Jeeezz he scaled that ladder with no safety rope and it didn’t bother him one bit, 😱.
@nadavegan
Ай бұрын
@8:23 I'm in love.
@AA-69
9 ай бұрын
Fred's wife took an even keener interest in his bank account I hear 😏
@carluk.2966
2 жыл бұрын
That guy talking to fred towards the end of this program his about 7 feet tall or was fred 5 foot tall...
@Embracing01
2 жыл бұрын
I think that bloke must've been about 6ft 7.
@pawelwis7215
Жыл бұрын
Believe me guys, is much simple to measure using metric system :D
@longjohn77
2 ай бұрын
@@pawelwis7215ft and inches>cm & inches
@billkeaveney1526
Жыл бұрын
Did you like that
@mjkrbjcw
Жыл бұрын
9:30 Harry Potter & Hagrid 😂
@Dude0000
2 жыл бұрын
It’s Joan Collins as Fred called this wife after they divorced…
@Embracing01
2 жыл бұрын
@@seventeesweremagic I always thought that Fred's first wife that the daughter, or at least the boy with the dark hair (I think he had dark hair) where Fred's children, but apparently they weren't. Must've been from her previous marriage. Nor sure about her daughter, but I'm sure Fred said he had a daughter. I wonder where they all are now?. I'm guessing Sue is still alive as she wasn't that old in this series.
@owenb1t5014
8 ай бұрын
How tall is that man at 9:25 ?? Or was Fred 4 foot tall ? 😂😂
@johncourtneidge
Ай бұрын
What, please was his second wife called? I hope that all his children got on well together.
@shauncorless8965
Жыл бұрын
She spent most of her money on Fred's life insurance ,,u know just in case 😳
@knold20
9 ай бұрын
How tall is that other guy?!!
@jimmy66603
9 ай бұрын
He's 5' 8". He looks tall cos Fred was 4' 2" in his hob nail boots. Oh aye.
@KidMillions
8 ай бұрын
@@jimmy66603 Fred was 5' 7". Same height as Tom Cruise.
@simonhanlon7518
2 жыл бұрын
Old Fred didn't hang about picking up the ladies.....
@Embracing01
2 жыл бұрын
Today he wouldn't stand a chance. Imagine him going on a dating site and putting on his profile "hobbies and interests: stepplejacking and traction engines and anything to do with the industrial age" lol.
@simonhanlon7518
2 жыл бұрын
@@Embracing01 Hahah yeah right, he would need to grow a massive beard, wear womens jeans and cover himself in tattoos lol
@Embracing01
2 жыл бұрын
@@simonhanlon7518 Beards and tattoos I agree.
@MoroccanAnwar
Жыл бұрын
@@simonhanlon7518 womens jeans 😁😁😁
@josephphelan646
Жыл бұрын
He certainly didn't . He knew how to pull n pick them !!
@Manu-Official
Жыл бұрын
Dd'you like tha'?
@Bendog300
Жыл бұрын
I bet he was ripped under those overalls
@babycharliebrown
Жыл бұрын
Fred it wasn’t England but Scotland AKA James Watt who invented the steam engine!
@damonrobus-clarke533
Жыл бұрын
Actually Thomas Newcomen did, but James Watt improved it a lot!
@dav01kar
8 ай бұрын
Young crumpet aint all its cracked up
@keithpilkington3340
Жыл бұрын
What a guy at least he found his glasses I bet he was happy managing not too piss on his leg
@rancidcrawfish
2 ай бұрын
8:44 i wish more women were still like this. My best friend married a woman that works 20 hours a week. He works roughly 50(+/-) on the farm. When he walks in the door she hands him a list of chores to do. She says times have changed and refuses to do more than half of the house work. He's weak for putting up with it but she's rotten for doing it to him.
@ottoalseely3609
Жыл бұрын
Rome ruined our world!😂
@matiapolano1552
7 ай бұрын
Seems nice, I don't like the homosexual comment though, still stuck in the past with that (as a gay man myself). But otherwise, he seems like a good dude and leads an idealic life.
@jamesdeluca6657
12 күн бұрын
I think hes a frustrated coal miner😂❤
@seamusblack5876
2 жыл бұрын
This is hard to watch pathetic how he let that women tell him what to do
@Embracing01
2 жыл бұрын
Plenty of women like that. At least Fred's wife seemed decent, Most blokes are married to right bi*ches and control freaks. Today most couples don't stay together for long, divorces are really common now unlike years ago. I think TV plays a big part in the break up of relationships and all the crap they are watching like soaps and realty TV like Love Island where men lust for some the "perfect" woman and all their brainwashing. plus now we have social media which is affecting peoples minds.
@MoroccanAnwar
Жыл бұрын
@@Embracing01 100% East enders makes them think every man is having affairs
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