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News has just come in about an evening event to raise fund towards the repair of the chimney in The Heritage Centre. If you are aware it’s been deemed unsafe by the council: link.

YOU CAN ENJOY AN EVENING AT THE HOLIDAY INN, BOLTON, WITH A THREE COURSE MEAL AND AFTER DINNER TALK BY SHEILA DIBNAH ABOUT LIVING WITH FRED AND HEAR LEON POWSNEY the new owner talk about BUYING FRED DIBNAH’S HOME.

The evening has been arranged to help fund the repair of Freds Chimney !!

Here’s your chance to meet Sheila Dibnah, and hear her VERY entertaining talk about life with Fred.

Also hear all about the ups and downs of buying Fred’s place, from the new owner Leon, get to hear the background of this lunatic that bought Fred’s place, when nobody else was prepared to take the risk.

• Why did he buy it ?
• How did he buy it ?
• What made him do it ?
• Where’s he from ?
• What’s his connection ?
• Wha’ts he doing with it ?
• Why is he doing it ?

Come along and be fed and entertained.

The venue is the Holiday Inn Bolton, you will be served a superb three course meal in the CLOISTERS, The Cloisters function room is a beautiful converted church and the perfect venue for an entertaining evening, refreshments will be served, and after your dinner you will be entertained by Sheila Dibnah with many side splitting stories of living with the Great Man Fred Dibnah MBE.

Then Leon will give you the nitty gritty of buying Fred’s place, how it came about, and his background.

All in all a GREAT night. What a fantastic pressie for somebody you love who is a fred fan.

Accommodation can be arranged at the Holiday inn, do not miss this night, it will be a night to remember.

This evening has been arranged to help with the repair of FRED’S CHIMNEY which we have already started working on.

For more details or tickets click below:

We have just been sent details of a new play, called “The Demolition Man”, about the last years of Fred’s life has been commissioned and is due to be staged next year at Bolton’s Octagon Theatre Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve just had word that a “Fred Dibnah Night” is going to be held in the St. Helens Theatre Royal on Saturday 9th October 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Just got some news that Sheila Dibnah is giving a talk in Whitehaven at the end of this month.
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Just noticed a interesting paragraph from Sheila Dibnah’s web site:

(text removed 9th December – see below)

It’s a shame that Sheila, due to current legal arrangements, can’t give her backing help when it needs it most. Edit: Sheila has clarified from the comments section, once planning permission has been granted she will be able to give the Heritage Centre her full and active assistance.

(image removed 9th December – see below)

Update #1 9th December: A comment has just been left by Jonathon Wild, who I gather is webmaster of Sheila Dibnah’s FredTalks.co.uk site, objecting to the text I quoted and screenshot I posted for the above news piece.

As requested by Mr Wild I have removed both the text and image that was causing concern, leaving just my own words and observations. I have also added clarification to my own observations.

Please follow the link at the top of this page to read the words that I’ve been requested remove. In case these words should change, which they no doubt will as legal situations change, please refer to this cached version of the page (dead link) from November 2009 courtesy of Google.

Update #2 14 December: Title corrected after clarification by Sheila Dibnah in the comments section.

Update #3 June 2010: Sheila Dibnah’s site now reads:

Sheila is simply delighted with the sterling work that Leon and Jan have done to ‘Fred’s World’ – and even more delighted that Fred’s Dream has come true with the Fred Dibnah Heritage Centre now open for business!

Sheila has given her full support and blessing and shall be doing what she can to promote her late husband’s name and ‘world’.

ONE of Fred Dibnah’s famous flat caps has been given pride of place at a North-west hat museum.

The cap is the one worn by the famous steeplejack on his wedding day to his third wife, Sheila, in September 1998. Read the rest of this entry »

Someone recently mentioned that they were sure that there was an Ale named after Fred. A bit of digging turns up this (possibly libellous) story, regarding why Bank Top Brewery’s Fred’s Cap Ale was renamed to Flat Cap Ale: Read the rest of this entry »

FRED Dibnah made no mention of his wife in his will, The Bolton News can reveal today after seeing its full contents.

Fred’s last will and testament, made just three weeks before his death on November 6, 2004, ensures his most loved possessions should go to his sons Jack and Roger and his daughters Jayne, Caroline and Lorna. Read the rest of this entry »

THE widow of Fred Dibnah has been cut out of his will, it was revealed today.

Sheila Dibnah has been left nothing from the celebrity steeplejack’s reported £1 million estate.
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