1983: FRED DIBNAH foiled by GINGER TOMCAT at 160ft | BBC News | Animal Magic | BBC Archive
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- "Britain's fearless steeplejack has met his match - a tomcat called Ginger."
Fred Dibnah attempts to rescue a stranded cat from the very top of a 160 foot chimney stack in Bolton.
“It’s stuck on there with bloody glue, I’m sure… and fear.”
A two day stand-off ensues after Fred's initial plan fails to work.
"If we leave it up there all night, it might get so bloody fed up and hungry that it might come down on its own."
Clip taken from BBC News, originally broadcast on BBC One, Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 December, 1983.
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That bloke from the animal sanctuary had some balls. What a hero.
That Fred was so annoyed.
Courage of his convictions
@@lewis7515Fred wanted the glory of course. Bit sad really
i didnt known him until the late 1990's@@OlafProt, but I do think he treated his first wife bloody rough. I got the impression when Sue left him she still cared greatly for him. I'm afraid me and Sheila never did see eye to eye, and after his death she said some hurtful and offensive things, which now would be covered by The Equality Act 2010, but this was previous to then.
I guess some of my ex's might say I'm just as bad, my ex partners have all got fed up with my love of steam engines and vintage machine and not being very domesticated. I was once asked about my past relationships, and I replied, 'most of my ex girlfriends all complained "You love that bloody engine more than you love me" and you know what, they was dead right! their long gone, but my engine is still here and going strong' lol.
@@OlafProtI wouldnt want to be married to me lol. I'm a country boy, I cant stand being in a big town or city, yet I've made engineering my lifes work, I don't like what happened in the 1980's to industry, but I dont think its fair to lay the blame completely at Maggies government. I blame several things, one of which was signed off by my political hero. In return for help from the Yanks in the early 1940's, churchill was forced to open up commonwealth markets to American trade, which undercut our british goods, and destroyed our export trade with the commonwealth (further compounded by Heath, Thatcher, Major and Blair all turning away from our commonwealth partners). I hold the Labour government of 1945 to 1950 who nationalised everything allowing the civil service and governments to mismanage our industry accountable, I blame the militant, over politicalized and greedy labour unions of the 70's and 80's, whos constant strikes helped to destroy manufacturing, in particular the evil slimy and uncaring Scargill. To me Ted Heath was even worse than the socialist government of the 1940's, signing us up to the EEC, destroying barriers that protected UK manufacturing against cheaper imports, which was made worse by Major, and Blair taking us even deeper into the EU. Since our joining of the EEC it hasn't just been industry that has suffered, its been our home grown agriculture, and until we are prepared to support homegrown goods and pay a premium for imported goods, it will only get worse. I get very depressed when I look at what we have lost, not only industry, but the building on our green and beautiful country side, our once comprehensive rail network, and the loss of rural life that I was able to catch the end of.
There was one major difference between me and Fred (besides the fact I'm scared of heights lol), fred saw no beauty in fields and trees. To me they are natural works of art and are glorious beautiful things, that the current administration seams to want to build houses all over to house our artificially inflated population.
My late grandad always said I was born 50 years too late. I think he was right, but had I been born 150 years before and had some financial backing, who knows, I might have been mentioned in the same sentence as Fowlers of Leeds, Marshalls of Gainsburough and Burrells of Theford lol
Good old Jerry from the animal sanctuary. It's lovely that exactly 40 years later his bravery is being remembered. I hope he sees this.
Today, the police would have prevented access to the chimney for Jerry because he hadn't been approved by the necessary risk assessment committee
@@TheOriginal_BigMacDid you not hear the part where they called the police on Jerry in the clip? That Fred was angry that Jerry was not trained and it would be him that had to rescue Jerry? He was just as unwelcome climbing the ladder on safety grounds then as he would be today.
@@whiteshoes3621sounds like Fred was angry because he was stealing his limelight. He didn't think anyone else would climb up there.
You say that like Fred was trained.
Fred had no formal training in steeple jacking
Google Dixon Chimney, Carlisle, man dies. They left a guy stuck up there to die whilst they tried to decide how to get him down 'safely'. @@TheOriginal_BigMac
Listen at 1.37 I’m sure Fred describes the bloke in a cracking way😂😂😂😂😂
"It'll be me who has to get the c*nt down" 😂
Not sure how the BBC let that bit stay in 😂
Yeah, I'm surprised no one ever picked that up.
Good old Fred 😂 ,I did a double take myself.
I love that Fred called a meeting with the local authorities, a decision was made to break for dinner and the guy from the animal sanctuary just took it upon himself to climb up after the cat, none of this would happen today.
If this was today it would take them a month to carry out a risk assessment.
Don't be so ridiculous, and be careful that you don't break your rose-tinted glasses.
The fella got arrested when he come down .it’s on another of Fred’s stories on RUclips .
@@SlartiMarvinbartfast shut up mug
@@paulking2636 nah just wear a ppe and lets Go, sure is complicated but its Not a miracle, in Germany we have some similar animal rescure
You know that this was broadcast 21 years and minus one day to the day Fred died!
What a legend! Died too young! We miss you Fred.
But the cat had 9 lives
Fred and Ginger.
Not the dance routine I thought it would be.
brilliant.😄
@@bellerophonchallen8861yep😅
Class....😉
Superb comment Sir
And now both in heaven, but I doubt their dancing cheek to cheek lol
The animal sanctuary guy must be so strong to cary such a big cat and 2 steel balls down. Fred is used to the highs but the guts of that animal sanctuary guy! Respect
I've seen many things (and been rescued myself on occasion), but someone holding a cat under one arm while climbing down a ladder (without a back scratcher) is about the bravest thing one can do while not on fire.
its hilarious how obsessed the BBC was with fred. but glad they were, a real slice of culture and time period preserved
I've been doing down a Fred Dibnah rabbit hole the last few days and it just keeps getting better and better 😂
C word topped it off for me, good ol bbc not understanding the common man 😂 played on the news 😂
I love that the BBC is so in touch with working class people they literally didn't censor "it'll be me who'll have to get the blimmin c-word down".
This is back in the days when the BBC WAS in touch with working class people.
He Says "to come down" it's the cig in his mouth mixed with his accent lol
How times have changed.
Well done Jerry and Fred. Fearless!
Fred is a hero and a God in Lancashire, tho that bloke from animal sanctuary had some big balls what a guy 👍
Jerry was the star of this show
It lost one of its 9 lives that day. Fred, what a natural treasure. RIP.
Ah Fred’s ego was dented by the animal sanctuary guy that nipped up his ladder in a jiffy stole his thunder 😂
@@bassbytes on the way down the rescue guy froze,Fred had to talk him down,so honour restored.
I wonder how long it took the cat to get all the way up there and did he only go up for a look? Brave rescuer. 👏
None of them are asking how it got up there? Did it climb up the ladder or use the rope? I'm guessing it went up the ladder rung by rung but couldn't figure out how to climb down again. Or knowing cats, he probably could have climbed down and just wanted attention.
@@robambrose4199I dunno but cats be dumb 😂
Apparently it Sat originally on the 3rd ladder up (each one of Fred's ladders were 12 foot long). As Fred went up to get the cat, the cat climbed further up to get away from him. Fred tried climbing up the ladder on the other side to throw bits of soot and loose motar to scare the cat back down, but the cat couldn't work out how to go back down and climbed further up. By the time Fred had got back down it had got onto the staging he had started erecting nearby he top. After a quick pint or 6 to discuss the "Modus operandi" they returned with the RSPCA (who refused to go up the chimney) so a cat basket with some cat food on was left attached to the ladder hoping the cat would climb in. Upon return next morning, the can was walking around the very top of the chimney.
Fred Dibnah, the Lancashire legend.
The other bloke had some balls going up the ladder
The cat had no fear either,at least going up.
balls of aluminium and steel!
They needed a crane to lower the balls of both rescuers to the ground.
Fred asking dude “you busy tomorrow” lol
@@fidelcatsro6948 this is just a ladder, is pretty easy for a pro Climber. You dont need difficult holds.
Notice how Ginger wasn’t glued to a smartphone unlike the cats of today! 😻🧐
So true😄!!
Simpler times.
You mean the owners who use they cads and dogs for clicks or the Fake animal rescue here on RUclips when animals got bad hurt just for likes
cats back then looked tough and healthier too without the processed gmo nonsense we eat today!
@@fidelcatsro6948 "Tough" as in chewed ears, scarred faces, etc. ? I still see quite a bit of that around..
This was more complex than reported. Having grabbed the cat the bloke froze at one point and had to be talked down by Dibnah. A double rescue. Yes, he did say cnut, and the BBC didn't catch it before it went to air.
You have to be a cat to do summat stupid like that. People rip up their whole floor to get a cat out, when all you have to do is remove one floorboard, leave the light on, put a bowl of food by the hole, then go up the pub.
I call bollocks on your story. That sounds like Fred trying to save face after he couldn’t be arsed to get the cat himself
"gettim t'come down".
Definite "m" sound.
@@andywatts8654 it's very true, and you can see in the film that Fred had to go up to the cat basket because "jerry" can't move. The story has been well documented in several places.
As soon as Jerry was back on the ground, the police arrested him before the news people could interview him. As for Fred couldn't be arsed, he had already been up there to try and get the cat down and it kept going further away from him. These events are also well documented be the BBC. Personally I'd had got people with blankets around the chimney and kicked it off and prayed it was court in one of the blankets.
@@James_Rivettand kicked it off😂 funny guy
@@leonardhpls6 you clearly never saw Fred knocking a chimney down brick by brick!
Fred Dibnah & John Noakes - They don’t make them like that any more!
I really, really miss those days....when life was so much less complicated. But then - we'd not have RUclips!
But what a blessing piece and quite.
The man from the sanctuary has balls of steel and faitr in Fred´s workmanship.
What is faitr.
The size of crowd amazing everyone wanted cat rescued
I love how at 1:35 Fred says it’ll be him who gets the c*nt down. I presume the BBC didn’t understand his accent so didn’t bleep it.
He says "come down".
"gettim t'come down".
Definite "m" sound.
@@austin2842 As a fellow Boltonian and having been around this accent and these people my whole life I can assure you he said “c**t”
@@terri6854 As a fellow Boltonian and having been around this accent and these people my whole life I can assure you he said “c**t”
@Eddie-Spaghetti I'm from the immediate area as well, and I think otherwise. My family has been in the area for generations, and I have relatives with older and thicker dialects than Fred. I understand what he's saying without even stopping to think about it.
Hats off to those Good Fellows!!! That Ginger(Henry) is a Gorgeous/Majestic/Lucky cat.🐈
Fred actually said the C word,like a proper bloke.😂😂
i didnt hear it? timestamp? edit never mind, I heard it all right
Can't hear it, timestamp?
@@fredo1070 1:34 "they won't get it down it'll be me who has to get the c**t down"
He definitely says it. Listen carefully. Passed by the BBC News editors! 😂
@@WonkyDrummerHe absolutely said it and they missed it. I imagine they scratched their heads the entire time he spoke wondering what he was saying.
I swear Fred just said on the BBC
"it won't be them that'll get him down it'll be me that'll 'ave to get the C*nt down". You Leg End Fred.😂
Yes lol😁 he did say c*#t 👍🇬🇧
He didn't. He said, in a Bolton accent "It'll be me'll af ta get 'im come down".
@@carlwilson1772 i agree you are right😁 Fred was a legend very brave bloke 👍🇬🇧
yes he did@@carlwilson1772
t’comt down
Unfortunately for the cat, climbing up a ladder is easy. Coming down a ladder is impossible.
A cow can climb stairs, but because of the configuration if its front legs, it cannot descend stairs.
Cats can climb down ladders but not at that height. Mine could easily climb down our loft ladder that was about eight feet high.
Incredible, what a brave chap, great stuff
I just found out about Fred Dibnah. The guy was...like a real life movie character. Kind of what I always envisioned Theodore Roosevelt to have been like. But I think Fred had more bravery yet. Probably one of the bravest souls to ever live. What a gem of a man he is to represent his nation.
That man had some balls
Glad the cat made it...
Most of the people in Britain just love animal's...that's the way it is.
The final insult, giving a ginger Tom cat a tin of dog food!😹😹
the best news report in 1983
Brilliant clip
jerry had some balls going straight up there..be arrested if you did that now.
he was arrested back then.
According to Fred's version of the story, the moment his feet touched the ground, the police whisked him away before the press could interview him.
Never spoke to him. But I seen Fred in Wales back in 1994.
He was working at an old steam train in a disused railway station.
Hard to believe Fred is only 45 in this clip. Looks much older.
i suspect the constant smoking aged him a lot. But some people always had older faces, we was watching the Titfield thunderbolt on sunday, and it was commented that Sid james was years older than his love interest Joan played by Gabrielle Brune. In fact Brune was almost a year older than Sid, who was 39 years old when the film was being filmed despite looking about 60.
Fred probably looked like that when he popped out of his mothers womb.
😆@@cbrboy76
@@cbrboy76 when you saw the man clean and in a suite, as he did for his after dinner speaches, he just didn't look like Fred.
lack of cruciferous vegetables especially with non filter cigarette smoking..
Please make all the episodes of Fred Dibnah available thanks
Type Fred Dibnah into the space bar ffs!
@@stephenturner6075 mate there's only 6 to 7 episodes on you tube when there was two series with 10 episodes each when aired in the late 70s and early 80s ffs
@@RaNdOm-GrAmMaR I thought there was more than that tbh...maybe I just keep watching the same one's. 😂😂😂
There good mate haven't seen em for a very long time
theres loads on here @@RaNdOm-GrAmMaR Here is a play list. There is plenty missing, but some of those early BBC programmes (Fred, A year with Fred, and Life with Fred) are real gems.
ruclips.net/p/PLBnzgIdCAeGpFuvhUI_Yk5_FGz-WH8wnt
Fred was the man
Nice to hear a good news story.
Fred the Chimney. Great Blast from the Sans past. Cheerio
I guarantee Fred went for a pint after the whole debacle was over
I guarantee he'd already had one when it started
or 3 or 5 @@Tmuk2 lol
He went for a Pint while the debacle was going on. That’s why they had to get a decent bloke to rescue the cat
@andywatts8654 not that decent, Fred had to go up and rescue both the jerry and the cat, when the silly man got scared and froze. Fred had to coach him all the way down. The story is well counted by verious publications
naaaah he bought a pack of 100mm Marlboros non filter King size
Ginger cat must be over 40yrs old today!
Bloody love Fred!
1:30 👀 did Fred just drop the C bomb on the BBC 😵💫
yes, but he must have also been one of the few people who said "bloody" as frequently as that and got away with it. The BBC were very tight lipped when you thing about it back then. Dave Allen got the sack for the F bomb that was frequently on channel 4 at the time, and that was several years later.
C for CAT!
Fred: proper Norf. Legend!
Brilliant British people are amazing 😍
God Bless you Gerry
Great quality that video
These guys are great👍
Fred sly getting a See you next Tuesday in the evening news !
Legend!
" It'll be me who'll have ter get the Cnut Down ". Lol.
he probably didn't say the actual word, up here we shorten 'couldn't' to something that sounds similar, eg, "I c..t get out of bed this morning"
Oh man. Getting a cat in one of those boxes is hard at the best of times. These two strangers doing it above and below one another on the same ladder far up in the air with a scared cat who also considers them "strangers" is quite the feat! 😮🎉
EE the good ol das when you came home from school and this was on the news.
i love this shizzle
They wasn't just carrying a cat down, they had some balls too. His jacket flapping away in the wind like that. No thanks! 😂
The fire brigade would not even turn up now for a cat.
The balls on the animal sanctuary fella just casually climbing a 160ft ladder like he does it everyday 😂
1:36 😊
Life really was different in the 80's wasn't it! That man must REALLY love cats because no way in hell would I climb up a 160ft chimney unharnessed like that! But maybe in the 80s people still did that sort of thing and it was just normal...? haha
Curious cat didn't get the memo then!😂 Lucky Tom.
Sure fred said itll be me who has to get the c#nt down, but it wasnt picked up because of his northern accent...😂
Now this is some news!
This is some mews.
I've never seen any video of that dude without a cigarette in his hand.
Not once lol
Today the rescue couldn't be done due to pathetic health and safety rules. Well done to these two guys. Wonderful cat.
Aawwww, poor kitty❤
John Humphrys looked just as smug and self-satisfied as he does now, 40 year later.
Can’t believe they managed to sneak a cheeky c-bomb in on mainstream tv
So we had fred and ginger...and then Tom and Jerry 🤷♂️...brilliant
Takes a brave man to hold a scared cat on a ladder that far off the ground. A lot of teeth and claws to contend with.
Only until you let it go and gravity takes over.
They won't get him down it'll be me who gets the cnt down😂
Fred is my favourite Englishman with Winston coming a close second.
For a second I read winton and thought dale ha
if fred had been pm in 1939 the jerries wouldnt have bothered, freds skin is thicker than a panzers armour, and his balls were bigger than a gustav shell
I bet the guy sneaking in to save the cat, was afraid of heights too. People will go to extreme lengths for animals.
These were real men, no fear and even when talking the ciggertte stayed in the mouth.
Jerry certainly did possess a big sack.
Who would have thought a Jerry would rescue a cat😆 but good old Jerry for being brave enough and going up the chimney to save Tom, obviously when watching the Tom and Jerry cartoons back in the day he never took side's..😂
Tom & Jerry…you couldn’t make it up!
wild to think that everyone in that video (cat and human alike) are now long dead. a window into the past, for sure
What's all the fuss about? I was told that a cat always lands on its feet. And they have 9 lives.
So, even if the first landing was a bit abrupt, the bloody ginger still has 8 lives left.
Cant believe the Beeb left the C word in. Obviously the BBC Archive boffins couldn't understand what Fred said. 😂
They can’t understand owt that doesn’t sound like it’s got a plumb in its mouth
he probably didn't say the actual word, up here we shorten 'couldn't' to something that sounds similar, eg, "I c..t get out of bed this morning"
Tom saved by Jerry, lol
How big was the basket send up to to carry the balls of the animal rescue chap? Fred & Ginger 😂🤣 YOU COULDNT make this stuff up!
And it was a tom getting rescued by a Jerry, amazing 😂
This is when the BBC reported news, not like today.
Safety first.
Fred Dibnah is above all Emergency services even the military
a normal day in BBC news 1980
A tin of dog food haha they knew it was up there for 30 hours
More Fred Dibnah please?
Good old Jerry
The Yanks have Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers. We have Fred Dibnah and Ginger the Cat.
Back in the day when you could say c**t on the news :D
Glad kitty was ok.
Also, people had a different attitude to harnesses and any real health and safety training back then.
was sheldon stokes 🤣
Editor missed the C bomb at 1:37 😊
A few hundred quid to fell that chimney, imagine the cost and hastle of safety regulations today.
What baffles me that cat's can climb ladders it's understandable for a tall tree but a bricked up chimney so high . The one look at a cat it's a mouser ha ha .
"Dya like that"
Fred conducting a meeting with entire towns Press..
After 30 hours you’d think they would have found a can of tuna. Where we still on rations back then