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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 [...]
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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 [...]
- Volunteer guides wanted for Heritage Centre
- Fred’s engine sells for £240,000
- Betsy Located! Safe and sound
- More Fred engines going under the hammer
- Heritage Centre vouchers on sale
- Betsy and Landy back on the road next year
- Heritage Centre opens to the public
- Fred’s traction engine up for auction
- Heritage Centre to open 15th despite setbacks
- Fred Bronze Bust for Bolton Museum
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 [...]
A quality brand new hardback book which chronicles in words and monochrome and colour photographs a great many of the 90 factory chimney demolition jobs that was carried out by [...]
A charming work dedicated to the memory of ‘Our Fred’ from Paul Donoghue, who filmed Fred for many years. With many untold stories inside and the whole being presented in [...]
Join engineer, steeplejack and beloved storyteller Fred Dibnah, as he takes you on a personal tour through industrial Britain. Bringing to life landmark events from the eighteenth to the early [...]
Program One: Heavy Horses Join equine enthusiast Erica Macy as she chats with horse owners and observes grooming preparations for the Great Dorset Steam Fair. Program Two: A Festival of [...]
“Its not everyone who has a coalmine in their back garden” A documentary on Fred’s unfinished project with some of his ex-mining friends to create a replica coal mine in [...]
