I remember seeing the Mill as a Kid as my Grandparents lived on Gisburn Rd, and My Granddad worked for Rolls Royce. Sadly they have both gone now. Barlick holds a very special place in my heart. Many happy memories from my visits.
@@PreservationEnthusiast Lying around mum's basement, polluting yourself with video games, porn, and getting stoned is what destroys your soul. Putting in a good day's work to feed your family is a damn honorable thing to do. Grow the Hell up.
@@asbcustom I work at the highest levels in the construction industry in some dangerous situations, and provide for my family, so I have already grown up. We have come a long way in protecting our workers. If one of your family was killed or incapacitated by industrial injury, you would be the first to bleat and demand why. You are the one who needs to grow up.
sad to see all the chimneys disappearing from the Barlick skyline, I had relatives work at context mill and as a young kid in the 70's me and my mates would use the sloped bank on the car park as a ramp, now it's got more housing on it , a real shame
Stand tall, oh mighty oak, for all the world to see. Your strength and undying beauty forever amazes me. Though storm clouds hover above you, Your branches span the sky In search of the radiant sunlight you Count on to survive. When the winds are high and restless and You lose a limb or two, It only makes you stronger. We could learn so much from you. Though generations have come and gone And brought about such change, Quietly you've watched them all, Yet still remained the same. Whether skies are black or blue. Life on earth is truly a gift. Every moment we must treasure. It's the simple things we take for granted That become our ultimate pleasures
It's a shame to see another one fall. I guess maintenance and insurance costs dictate their demise, but it's a great pity that these icons of industry past can't be incorporated into the new use of the surrounding land. There is a chinmey preseved that way, right next to a supermarket in York. Not the best setting perhaps, but better than having no chinmey at all. In the not too distant future, much of the evidence of our once industrial heritage will be eradicated forever.
The National Trust will step in to preserve the national heritage if were born a lord, but not if the heritage belonged to working men. A fair few of those chimneys should have been saved as a monument to the history of the people that made a country great.
The guy who did the chimney needs to start doing some tv programs like fred did about our heritage him and alf who worked with fred. I really miss them programs all there is now is dribble stupid pointless reality shows.
It was all bollocks up when the loom manufactures sold their stuff to the far east, you can,t blame them for seeking new sales as UK was saturated, At school in the 50s we had Career meetings at the end of our stint The teachers ( a loose description ) were promoting weaving as a viable occupation ??? ya what !!! it was dying then, I also remember that the women were all near deaf with the clatter of the looms
Deafness is a reason for insisting the employer provides ear defenders not politicians assist International Bank Syndicates to rob the population and remove all initiative for industry. We can learn a lot about our own history by reading about Donald Trump. We won't learn anything of that sort from Theresa May.
Do try to remember that Rothschild are not the same religion as Moslem. And that measured, caring, UK globalism always had a place in England called: Home.
No, not gone out of business but packed it in for retiretirement! My dad started the firm in 1946 and it continued to trade as a family business without owing anyone any money until my brother was ready to retire and there was no family to pass it on too.
Somehow I think that the whole idea of making a fire onto telephone poles wedged up into the masonry is just a bit of theatrics because I have seen many chimney taken down by just knocking out the bricks and letting the thing go so from what I understand good old friend was a bit of an actor and liked all the hoopla and excitement that a giant Smokey tarry fire would produce and as far as a safer way to do it have you ever seen Fred get in the line of a falling chimney only to escape its rest by mirror inches so as far as any carefulness or safety concerns I think they're all out of the windowThe other part of the whole theatrical situation was they adding of rubber tires I forgot about that one that is totally unnecessary from what I think anyway I mean am I wrong I don't know
@@master_Blaster91 There was one occasion when Fred's apprentices were making an opening and inserting pit props at the bottom of a concrete chimney while Fred was appearing in court for some misdemeanour involving his traction engine. When Fred arrived at the chimney later in the day, small flakes of concrete started to fall down, then cracks appeared and the chimney collapsed prematurely. Fred was lucky to get out in time.
Of course this way was only done for the spectacle of a massive fire and it all collapsing. They could easily just knock it down with a machine like demolition companies do with all tall buildings.
They should have given politicians a ringside seat lol. Funny how people like fires, and demolition and sometimes things being demolished by explosives..
I never understood why Fred, or these gentlemen, waste their time watching for cracks at the rear and sides. Once that fire is lit, it’s set in motion. It’s either right or not. It’s too late to change something, so why risk standing so close. Makes no sense
John wasn't employed by Warburtons Steeplejacks when he was killed. I took him up his first chimney at the age of 15 and he was a life long mate of myself and my brothers. He was working for a firm from Macclesfield when he was killed.
I can remember Fred recounting that when he first started out as a steeplejack, one died nearly every week. His parents stuck the newspaper cuttings to his bedroom door to try to persuade him to take up a different career.
I always wanted to learn how to lay some bricks sure would be nice to get a hold of couple million extra free ones always wanted to lay a nice brick garage
Don’t waste a bottle of beer dear Fred would have drank that beer no problem nice beer alarm yes Fred’s way the safest .and on RUclips a guy just jackhammered and ran away when chimney fell mad,no wood no wedges no safety,safety first wonder how many still stand.
What gets me is we get all misty-eyed about these places and most of them were forcing poor, underpaid workers to work in appalling conditions for far too many hours a day. We would call them sweatshops these days. Even the people doing the jobs will get misty-eyed, in spite of the shit they were handed.
Shut up you cock, what have you done for our history? I presume you meant history when you said story, read up before you comment on a subject you know nothing about!
"God bless all those who ever worked here" Amen to that
Fred would have liked that - looked clinically perfect.
Wish Fred was still with us.....
Theres a high chance he would if he didnt pick up the smoking habit
@@LMAO-ef3ip And the drinking.
“ ...and God bless all those who work here“. Perfect sentiment.
Shame the chimney had to go, but glad a firm is carrying on the Dibnah tradition of felling chimneys
I dont think Fred would approve of the bottle of beer being propped in the chimney. Bloody waste of beer.
R.I.P Fred, you were one of a kind.
Freemason
@@malcolmcanning548 I believe that you will find he was not.
@@donbriggs9128 well they are all Cowan's now.
@@malcolmcanning548 Big difference between Stonemason and Freemason.
@@donbriggs9128 enlightenment would be good
Was it just me I found this film very emotional end of an era yes no doubt about that
Dibnah style, like the ring of it.
I'm so glad that someone is still felling chimneys in this way. Fred hated doing this though, even though it kept his 2 families over the years.
I remember seeing the Mill as a Kid as my Grandparents lived on Gisburn Rd, and My Granddad worked for Rolls Royce. Sadly they have both gone now. Barlick holds a very special place in my heart. Many happy memories from my visits.
Barlick, I've not heard it called that.
The Real England and the Real English will soon be just a MEMORY.......😤😤😢😢😢😢
videos like this i always want to see Fred coming in his land rover with Donald will never be the same very sad . good video anyway .
End of an era very little british manufacturing industry left mills a thing of a bygone age
Always good to see these drawing there last smoke it’s good send off ….. Fred was master at the game ❤️🏴
A sad day, yet brilliant video. Well worth a BAFTA.
What is that sound at 8:29? Sounded like the chimney dying.
It's ironic that Mr Dibnah's work to preserve it was ultimately done in by his preferred means. Top job.
Times are a changing,and not for the better.Not many chimneys left now.
Yes it is for the better. A lot less pollution and less menial, soul destroying, life shortening jobs.
@@PreservationEnthusiast Agree, can't understand nostalgia for poor, filthy times when we were all treated like Baldrick.
@@paulburns1333 Is for the future preserve history
@@PreservationEnthusiast Lying around mum's basement, polluting yourself with video games, porn, and getting stoned is what destroys your soul. Putting in a good day's work to feed your family is a damn honorable thing to do. Grow the Hell up.
@@asbcustom I work at the highest levels in the construction industry in some dangerous situations, and provide for my family, so I have already grown up.
We have come a long way in protecting our workers. If one of your family was killed or incapacitated by industrial injury, you would be the first to bleat and demand why.
You are the one who needs to grow up.
Ihink a comment made not picked up on' was the owners had to pay 50k a year for rates even though it was closed thats why it all came down .......
Probably not just rates but also keeping the building safe and secure.
sad to see all the chimneys disappearing from the Barlick skyline, I had relatives work at context mill and as a young kid in the 70's me and my mates would use the sloped bank on the car park as a ramp, now it's got more housing on it , a real shame
A perfect demolition. Well done lads!
Stand tall, oh mighty oak, for all the world to see.
Your strength and undying beauty forever amazes me.
Though storm clouds hover above you,
Your branches span the sky
In search of the radiant sunlight you
Count on to survive.
When the winds are high and restless and
You lose a limb or two,
It only makes you stronger.
We could learn so much from you.
Though generations have come and gone
And brought about such change,
Quietly you've watched them all,
Yet still remained the same.
Whether skies are black or blue.
Life on earth is truly a gift.
Every moment we must treasure.
It's the simple things we take for granted
That become our ultimate pleasures
@@mohamedesa4981 not sure i was drunk when i copied and paste it
So interesting, thank you for posting and sharing
It's a shame to see another one fall. I guess maintenance and insurance costs dictate their demise, but it's a great pity that these icons of industry past can't be incorporated into the new use of the surrounding land. There is a chinmey preseved that way, right next to a supermarket in York. Not the best setting perhaps, but better than having no chinmey at all. In the not too distant future, much of the evidence of our once industrial heritage will be eradicated forever.
Really well made and informative!
The National Trust will step in to preserve the national heritage if were born a lord, but not if the heritage belonged to working men. A fair few of those chimneys should have been saved as a monument to the history of the people that made a country great.
Fred Dibnah the Second
Chimney's will be a thing of the past soon.
Time to list them.
Maybe leave some of it ..at least?
That one certainly was listed at the end... 😕
Why don't they ever repurpose these buildings into warehouses, luxury apartments, shopping venues etc etc. What a waste of infrastructure!
SteamGent they do some of them. But most of them aren’t in desirable or suitable locations.
All in the name of progress to quote Fred
The guy who did the chimney needs to start doing some tv programs like fred did about our heritage him and alf who worked with fred. I really miss them programs all there is now is dribble stupid pointless reality shows.
Yeah but those stupid shows exist because a stupid audience watches them, they will keep churning out crap as long as someone demands it.
@@oo0Spyder0oo I agree but sometimes I wonder if it's the chicken or the egg with this crap. Having said that crap tv has existed for a long time.
It's like he never left
DID YA LIKE THAT REMINDS ME OF FRED
Nice video very well put together
i think Fred would be pleased ith your work
It was all bollocks up when the loom manufactures sold their stuff to the far east, you can,t blame them for seeking new sales as UK was saturated,
At school in the 50s we had Career meetings at the end of our stint
The teachers ( a loose description ) were promoting weaving as a viable occupation ???
ya what !!! it was dying then,
I also remember that the women were all near deaf with the clatter of the looms
Deafness is a reason for insisting the employer provides ear defenders not politicians assist International Bank Syndicates to rob the population and remove all initiative for industry. We can learn a lot about our own history by reading about Donald Trump.
We won't learn anything of that sort from Theresa May.
3:12 Carlsberg! What a shame. Lots of good local bottled beers.
jimW133 Could have been Victoria beer or VB to “ locals” that’s even worse can’t say what slang name they call it.😀
How dreadfully sad.
beautiful
They do understand its more a celebration of its time like my dad said he doesn't like to see them go that's just the way it is now.
Surreal to think Fred probably worked on that chimney before as he did with probably mist all the chimneys in the UK.
Makes you wonder how they built these tall chimneys back in the day
Granville Bennet
They built them one brick at a time…
They start at the top and then work their way down.
They built them from the inside
Very sad. Still, it'll make room for another mosque and some shops selling foreign goods.
Soupdragon1964 all that should be illegal!
Do try to remember that Rothschild are not the same religion as Moslem. And that measured, caring, UK globalism always had a place in England called: Home.
Gammon
And a few polish shops next to the mosque...please dont forget the polish thanks
@@user-sf1id2br7i I get my polish from Timpsons.
Fred dibnah would be proud
It isn't Dibnah style , this method has been used for over a hundred years. Look on here and you can see a pathe film from 1940 doing the same.
No tyres?
In germany we use this style in some cases even today
real men of England
That thing moved st the speed of gravity!
Did you like that??
Missed the "off to pub"
Sadly Warburtons steplejacks who did this demolition, steplejacks name John Warburton, seems to have gone out of buisness last year.
No, not gone out of business but packed it in for retiretirement! My dad started the firm in 1946 and it continued to trade as a family business without owing anyone any money until my brother was ready to retire and there was no family to pass it on too.
Fred would not have put is Guinness bottle there bless him rest in peace Fred sadly missed
@@pullwoodsmark i stand corrected
does anybody know the name of the song used in this video??
I'm sure they do.
One day cooling towers could be brought down like this.
The Mill has shut down and its never coming back .
Good vid this..
I feel bad for the bottle of beer
Somehow I think that the whole idea of making a fire onto telephone poles wedged up into the masonry is just a bit of theatrics because I have seen many chimney taken down by just knocking out the bricks and letting the thing go so from what I understand good old friend was a bit of an actor and liked all the hoopla and excitement that a giant Smokey tarry fire would produce and as far as a safer way to do it have you ever seen Fred get in the line of a falling chimney only to escape its rest by mirror inches so as far as any carefulness or safety concerns I think they're all out of the windowThe other part of the whole theatrical situation was they adding of rubber tires I forgot about that one that is totally unnecessary from what I think anyway I mean am I wrong I don't know
Only a fool would keep knocking bricks out until it fell.
@@master_Blaster91 There was one occasion when Fred's apprentices were making an opening and inserting pit props at the bottom of a concrete chimney while Fred was appearing in court for some misdemeanour involving his traction engine. When Fred arrived at the chimney later in the day, small flakes of concrete started to fall down, then cracks appeared and the chimney collapsed prematurely. Fred was lucky to get out in time.
Of course this way was only done for the spectacle of a massive fire and it all collapsing. They could easily just knock it down with a machine like demolition companies do with all tall buildings.
They should have given politicians a ringside seat lol.
Funny how people like fires, and demolition and sometimes things being demolished by explosives..
Folk sweated in there for a pittance.Just the way things were back then.
I never understood why Fred, or these gentlemen, waste their time watching for cracks at the rear and sides. Once that fire is lit, it’s set in motion. It’s either right or not. It’s too late to change something, so why risk standing so close. Makes no sense
Sad to see one of these employees fell of a chimney and died. John Alty fell 300ft from a chimney in Bolton to his death. Tragic.
John wasn't employed by Warburtons Steeplejacks when he was killed. I took him up his first chimney at the age of 15 and he was a life long mate of myself and my brothers. He was working for a firm from Macclesfield when he was killed.
@@pullwoodsmark ok pal, yeh he worked for Baileys but Shame nevertheless but good story. Have you had any near escapes whilst climbing?
I can remember Fred recounting that when he first started out as a steeplejack, one died nearly every week. His parents stuck the newspaper cuttings to his bedroom door to try to persuade him to take up a different career.
@@RJSRdg bless him lol
Ah that long lost place called Britain
Sad day.
I saw not one tyre in that fyre
It’s just not the same without the thick black smoke and Fred running away as it’s falling then blowing the horn after 😂
yis should have called ig Fred...did yer like dat?
i know i,m ready when i see the crack
I always wanted to learn how to lay some bricks sure would be nice to get a hold of couple million extra free ones always wanted to lay a nice brick garage
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So did i, these people whistling and cheering just dont understand :/
Don’t waste a bottle of beer dear Fred would have drank that beer no problem nice beer alarm yes Fred’s way the safest .and on RUclips a guy just jackhammered and ran away when chimney fell mad,no wood no wedges no safety,safety first wonder how many still stand.
The 50k a year is obviously nonsense. No doubt they sold it for building land.
"ITS DONE FOR"
It would of been better Fred doing it, it would make him sad 😥 having to take it down though
It’s Going
Fred would not have used beer.
Without being disrespectful, but the general brits are a bit funny... not "funny-ha ha". You got to love them. :)
Nobutt a chimney really
NO TIRES? 😁
What gets me is we get all misty-eyed about these places and most of them were forcing poor, underpaid workers to work in appalling conditions for far too many hours a day. We would call them sweatshops these days. Even the people doing the jobs will get misty-eyed, in spite of the shit they were handed.
the welshmiketyson
He's not a icon he's destroying our story.
Shut up you cock, what have you done for our history? I presume you meant history when you said story, read up before you comment on a subject you know nothing about!
Hate idiot ignorant comments.... Why bother posting ignorance.... there's enough of it in the world.... These are tough hard working men
The amount of damage to peoples health from the smoke outta these ones that Fred done wasn't worth it but he only cared about himself