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Heritage Centre Memorabilia
In a continuing effort to raise the cash for the launch of the Heritage Centre the current owners of Fred’s former house are selling some of the surplus bits and [...]
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Visit the Heritage Centre
The Fred Dibnah Heritage Centre is now open for tours! Visitors will have a guided tour of the wonderful grounds, workshops and machinery, collected by Fred over his working life, [...]
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Fred Dibnah, A Moving Story
In this programme see Fred’s treasured traction engines leave their home for the very last time. It is a very sad Boxing Day in Bolton as they are moved from [...]
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Fred Dibnah’s Backyard
Fred Dibnah’s Backyard Collection, new DVD. Fred Dibnah was a steeplejack, engineer and eccentric who became a TV presenter, cult figure and latterly a national institution. Fred was legendary for [...]
- Can you help to find Fred Dibnah’s lost golden spanner?
- Getting steam back to Fred’s place
- Please be nice
- SteepleTimes: “Where Dibnah mucked around”
- The Telegraph: “FS: Steeplejack’s Bolton home”
- Heritage Centre Supporters Club Membership
- Fred’s former home up for sale (again)
- Fred’s birthday bash
- Betsy on display at Riverside Steam Rally
- Fred’s Bridegroom Speech Video
Fred brought great passion and excitement to everything that caught his eye when it came to the making of things. Iron and steel, wood and fire, the power of harnessed [...]
The complete BBC series incorporating six individual episodes. Program One: Wind Water And Steam Fred starts his journey at the old Bolton, Bury and Manchester Canal where he first discovered [...]
This is volume one (episode 1 – 6) of a two disk series. A 12-part series was completed by Fred before his death in November 2003. He sets out on [...]
For a lot of people, one of their first questions when they visit a great historic building is ‘how the heck did they build that all that time ago? How [...]
The official biography of a national treasure – now in paperback. “Fred Dibnah’s World” celebrates the life and work of Britain’s best known steeplejack and national treasure, Fred Dibnah. Before [...]
Beloved steeplejack, industrial historian and a man with a passion for steam, the late Fred Dibnah’s enthusiasms proved contagious to all who came across them. This collection brings together for [...]
