Follows Fred’s journey around Britain on his restored traction engine. Features six episodes, including:
‘Mechanics And Riveters’
Fred stops off at Andy Thornton’s, a company that makes ornate carvings, moves on to Worsborough to have a go at making hot forge rivets, then travels down to Derbyshire to visit the Midland Railway Centre.
‘Pattern Making’
Leaving his traction engine to be fixed, Fred visits David Ragsdale, a skilled pattern maker who just happens to own six steam engines. He then meets a man who runs a garden centre and museum via the power of steam, before taking a trip to Ashbourne to visit a clockmaker.
‘Engines At Work’
Fred meets up with a few old friends at the North Staffs and Cheshire Traction Engine Club. He visits a pumping station with a great triple expansion engine, then calls in at the Severn Valley Railway at Bridgenorth before a look round the Black Country Living Museum.
‘Chains And Copper’
Fred is in the Black Country watching the skills of an authentic chain maker, before moving on to Anglesey to visit Parys Mountain, once the largest copper mine in the world. Then he travels further down into Wales, making an overnight stop at Ffestiniog railway.
‘The Engineering Workshop’
Fred and his team are in the mountains of Snowdonia on the final stage of their journey, and must get through Llanberis Pass. At the Welsh Slate Museum, Fred and Alf take a look in the workshop where machinery is driven by a line shaft an eighth of a mile long.
‘A Lifetime’s Achievement’
Fred completes his journey by visiting the Welsh Slate Museum, then the world’s first boat lift in Cheshire before returning home to Bolton. He makes one final trip down to London to collect his MBE for services to Broadcasting and Industrial Heritage from the Queen.
Details
Format: PAL
Region: Region 2
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
EAN: 5030305103545
Studio: Contender Entertainment Group
DVD Release Date: 18 Jul 2005
Run Time: 180 minutes
