Life with Fred - Spring Again (part 1)

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  • Life with Fred (Spring Again) part 1
    A repeat broadcast from 1995 of the BBC2 series about Bolton Steeplejack Fred Dibnah which was first shown in March 1994.
    Date: Thursday 23rd February 1995

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  • @mikewest712
    @mikewest712 11 месяцев назад +11

    Thought I watched them all then found this. Probably the happiest and most pure I have seen this man.

  • @Bigtimecharlie1980
    @Bigtimecharlie1980 10 месяцев назад +11

    When Fred said how we have had our time. How right he was 😢

  • @sassythesasquatch1571
    @sassythesasquatch1571 2 года назад +24

    Fred was a legend, hearing him talk about his kid was nice

  • @SG-wi9kd
    @SG-wi9kd 7 месяцев назад +5

    This man was a legend. Hard as nails and an incredibly nice guy.

  • @macthedrummer1
    @macthedrummer1 Год назад +11

    Fred didn`t have a stop button. Always in motion. RIP Fred.

  • @callummorgan5058
    @callummorgan5058 2 года назад +18

    Love fred dibnah absolute legend miss him he was a great person really said that I never had a chance to meet him as he died in 2004 3yrs after I was born

  • @KidMillions
    @KidMillions 10 месяцев назад +13

    I like how she says she doesn't expect him to do half of the housework, but really she does. It's like him expecting she does half of every chimney.

  • @garethjudd5840
    @garethjudd5840 2 года назад +42

    Fred's wife reminds me of Wallace's girlfriend Wendoline from A Close Shave. "Oh no! I can't stand cheese. Brings me out in a rash" 😂

    • @RobertLocksley385
      @RobertLocksley385 Год назад +2

      Welcome the Northern England.

    • @pawelwis7215
      @pawelwis7215 Год назад

      What is wrong about her? She is fine and completely fuckable :D

    • @sunnyjim1355
      @sunnyjim1355 Год назад +6

      Fred had a great taste in engines and a terrible taste in women, and here's the proof.
      6:30

    • @DaedalianAbilon
      @DaedalianAbilon Год назад +1

      Exactly. Weak wife, weak man.

  • @ElDantae
    @ElDantae 10 месяцев назад +4

    I haven't seen this one, thank you for uploading!!

  • @123TauruZ321
    @123TauruZ321 2 года назад +24

    These are gold!!! Thanks so much for uploading!!!!

    • @Embracing01
      @Embracing01  2 года назад +3

      No worries

    • @eliotreader8220
      @eliotreader8220 2 года назад +1

      @@Embracing01 I believe Fred was very supportive of the steam apprentice club founded by the national traction engine trust

  • @mjkrbjcw
    @mjkrbjcw 2 года назад +10

    “I have a wash more now , I never used too “ 😂😂😂

    • @RobertLocksley385
      @RobertLocksley385 Год назад +1

      That's me Grandad Bill Neale of Pleasley, in the County of Notts from 1921 to 2005. "A bath? What do I want one of them for?".

  • @waynebailey8796
    @waynebailey8796 Год назад +12

    I would have loved to have known this man,, could you imagine going for a beer with him, you'd never stop smiling.

  • @Chris-kz7us
    @Chris-kz7us Месяц назад +1

    Fred is so right about us being like the end of the Roman Empire. Britain was on the downfall as soon as we entered WW1

  • @jimbog8397
    @jimbog8397 Год назад +2

    The way he balanced on the scaffolding like it was his living room at 7.20.

  • @mentzerr
    @mentzerr 2 года назад +13

    bloody heck aint fred got enough to do for gods sake . WOMEN .

  • @jackmehoff1840
    @jackmehoff1840 5 месяцев назад +4

    Fred's favorite shirt colour seems to be a shade of oil

  • @glennpowell3444
    @glennpowell3444 2 года назад +13

    Fun fact.The tallest brick stack ever built in the UK was actually in Scotland outside Edingurgh.It was over 400 foot and had to be reduced several times due to rotten mortar before eventually being dropped .The tallest stack now is also in Scotland and is 307 feet.(or was)

    • @chrisbeech4458
      @chrisbeech4458 2 года назад +6

      Thanks for that info I can now sleep safely at night

    • @erikkennedy
      @erikkennedy 2 года назад

      Hell yeah. Scottish chimneys FTW.

    • @Marcjacobs97
      @Marcjacobs97 Год назад +2

      @@chrisbeech4458 I know, right! I fucking hate information too.

    • @frasercheyne8332
      @frasercheyne8332 Год назад

      Well us Scots are closer to god after all

    • @Eleventhearlofmars
      @Eleventhearlofmars Год назад +2

      @@chrisbeech4458 you can’t beat interesting facts lol.

  • @deeppurple883
    @deeppurple883 2 года назад +7

    To be able to say that you worked with Fred Could open up door's otherwise closed to mear mortals. Fred was a all rounder. Well missed buddy, Right said Fred 🍀🇮🇪

  • @handsoffmycactus2958
    @handsoffmycactus2958 2 года назад +9

    Why did people look so much older back then? Guys in their 50s and early 60s now look mostly so much better!!!! Fit even in some cases

    • @stevec9653
      @stevec9653 2 года назад +14

      A lifetime of hard manual work

    • @Embracing01
      @Embracing01  2 года назад +3

      People did look older then. Parents of young children back then looked like they were in their early 40s, yet today they all look like they just left school a week earlier. I suppose alot of blokes in the 80s grew mustache's like Kevin Webster which seemed to be a trend back then, so it probably made em look older. I wouldn't say people are healthier though now, all the crap junk takeaway food and supermarket rubbish which is just processed doesn't help, even the fruit and veg loses its nutrients because it takes so long to get from the field to the shop, but I doubt people are ever going to grow their own food in any time soon.

    • @eliotreader8220
      @eliotreader8220 2 года назад +3

      @@Embracing01 Its a shame what's happened to Fred's belt driven workshop in recent years.
      I understand a steam engine magazine called Old Glory did a big news story on the sale of the stuff in the back garden.
      I believe the guy wanted 15 pounds for one of Fred's ladders. I don't remember reading any information on what Fred's hand tools and belt driven workshop tools went for.
      I understand the guy originally wanted to return Fred's workshop to steam but because they couldn't rise enough money to have a new boiler made. they decided to sell it off.
      I hope Fred's tools will be used to repair steam engines.

    • @ShadSimm
      @ShadSimm 2 года назад +1

      @@Embracing01 has Kevin Webster still got his moustache and bomber jacket?

    • @chrish1657
      @chrish1657 Год назад

      Cigarettes, alcohol and shit food.

  • @kev6294
    @kev6294 Год назад +3

    What a legend

  • @AnthonyWilliams-ew3wp
    @AnthonyWilliams-ew3wp 2 года назад +19

    Another gold digger who let him down

  • @johncourtneidge
    @johncourtneidge 3 месяца назад

    Lovely!

  • @erikkennedy
    @erikkennedy 2 года назад +14

    Holy cow, that Gilnow Mill geezer (9:44) was tall compared to Fred. Just saying.

    • @LisaJones-fp3ee
      @LisaJones-fp3ee Год назад

      Haha,I'm sure he's standing in a hole!!

    • @Eleventhearlofmars
      @Eleventhearlofmars Год назад

      Similar to me and the mrs lol, I’m 6 ft 6 and she’s 4ft 10, the poison dwarf I call her. 😂

    • @nigelcarren
      @nigelcarren 11 месяцев назад

      In my French village they call me The English Giant, because I stand barefoot at a stagerring 5'8"

    • @longjohn77
      @longjohn77 4 месяца назад

      😂​@@nigelcarren

  • @mattevans3637
    @mattevans3637 2 года назад +1

    Well done for these

  • @Embracing01
    @Embracing01  2 года назад +4

    Today people would think Jack was Fred's great grandson lol. Lots of people these days who are only in their early 40s and they are already grandparents, probably because they had their kids when they were barely out of school. When I was young a grandparent was someone who looked like a grandparent should look, someone old with grey hair, usually in retirement age between the age of about 55-70, now they're getting younger and younger like the parents. No wonder people think there's too many people in the world lol.

  • @chrish1657
    @chrish1657 Год назад +5

    "Ermaseksuals and kweeerz" 🤣

  • @MEVD2011
    @MEVD2011 3 месяца назад

    90/10 for house work but grafting and earning the poppy 100% to nil but he never complained

  • @Bendog300
    @Bendog300 Год назад +8

    wow FRED is hitting nails on the head! thank god hes not alive today to witness the decay of society and the sheer contempt for the Eglish culture and history! like he said at the end of the Roman Empire!

  • @77lassiter15
    @77lassiter15 Год назад

    Fascinating that Rome "went queer and homosexual " and then went downhill never knew that gosh thanks Freddie

  • @GenaF
    @GenaF 11 месяцев назад +1

    9:32 Fred looks tiny next to the fella he is talking with

  • @DavidSmith-qd7fd
    @DavidSmith-qd7fd 2 года назад

    Thanks

  • @michaelgibson4705
    @michaelgibson4705 Год назад

    Can anyone hear Carnival in Venice without thinking of Fred

  • @88njtrigg88
    @88njtrigg88 2 года назад

    Mike Rowe heat your heart out.

  • @johncourtneidge
    @johncourtneidge 3 месяца назад

    What, please was his second wife called?
    I hope that all his children got on well together.

  • @AA-69
    @AA-69 11 месяцев назад +7

    Fred's wife took an even keener interest in his bank account I hear 😏

  • @newday2447
    @newday2447 8 месяцев назад

    Jeeezz he scaled that ladder with no safety rope and it didn’t bother him one bit, 😱.

  • @ianbetts4435
    @ianbetts4435 9 месяцев назад

    Poor old Fred having to do housework 😂

  • @rancidcrawfish
    @rancidcrawfish 4 месяца назад +1

    8:44 i wish more women were still like this. My best friend married a woman that works 20 hours a week. He works roughly 50(+/-) on the farm. When he walks in the door she hands him a list of chores to do. She says times have changed and refuses to do more than half of the house work. He's weak for putting up with it but she's rotten for doing it to him.

  • @sloopycat1954
    @sloopycat1954 2 года назад +2

    Jacks a funny looking creature

  • @mikew2095
    @mikew2095 29 дней назад

    Is Fred short or is that guy is an absolute giant at 9:30 ??

  • @Dude0000
    @Dude0000 2 года назад +7

    It’s Joan Collins as Fred called this wife after they divorced…

    • @Embracing01
      @Embracing01  2 года назад

      @@seventeesweremagic I always thought that Fred's first wife that the daughter, or at least the boy with the dark hair (I think he had dark hair) where Fred's children, but apparently they weren't. Must've been from her previous marriage. Nor sure about her daughter, but I'm sure Fred said he had a daughter. I wonder where they all are now?. I'm guessing Sue is still alive as she wasn't that old in this series.

  • @shauncorless8965
    @shauncorless8965 Год назад +1

    She spent most of her money on Fred's life insurance ,,u know just in case 😳

  • @nathanbellamy3308
    @nathanbellamy3308 Год назад

    The OG steam punk

  • @nadavegan
    @nadavegan 3 месяца назад

    @8:23 I'm in love.

  • @carluk.2966
    @carluk.2966 2 года назад +2

    That guy talking to fred towards the end of this program his about 7 feet tall or was fred 5 foot tall...

    • @Embracing01
      @Embracing01  2 года назад +1

      I think that bloke must've been about 6ft 7.

    • @pawelwis7215
      @pawelwis7215 Год назад

      Believe me guys, is much simple to measure using metric system :D

    • @longjohn77
      @longjohn77 4 месяца назад

      ​@@pawelwis7215ft and inches>cm & inches

  • @owenb1t5014
    @owenb1t5014 10 месяцев назад +1

    How tall is that man at 9:25 ?? Or was Fred 4 foot tall ? 😂😂

  • @keithpilkington3340
    @keithpilkington3340 Год назад

    What a guy at least he found his glasses I bet he was happy managing not too piss on his leg

  • @billkeaveney1526
    @billkeaveney1526 Год назад

    Did you like that

  • @mjkrbjcw
    @mjkrbjcw 2 года назад +1

    9:30 Harry Potter & Hagrid 😂

  • @knold20
    @knold20 11 месяцев назад +1

    How tall is that other guy?!!

    • @jimmy66603
      @jimmy66603 11 месяцев назад

      He's 5' 8". He looks tall cos Fred was 4' 2" in his hob nail boots. Oh aye.

    • @KidMillions
      @KidMillions 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@jimmy66603 Fred was 5' 7". Same height as Tom Cruise.

  • @Omegaman1969
    @Omegaman1969 2 года назад +1

    Old Fred didn't hang about picking up the ladies.....

    • @Embracing01
      @Embracing01  2 года назад +8

      Today he wouldn't stand a chance. Imagine him going on a dating site and putting on his profile "hobbies and interests: stepplejacking and traction engines and anything to do with the industrial age" lol.

    • @Omegaman1969
      @Omegaman1969 2 года назад +12

      @@Embracing01 Hahah yeah right, he would need to grow a massive beard, wear womens jeans and cover himself in tattoos lol

    • @Embracing01
      @Embracing01  2 года назад +2

      @@Omegaman1969 Beards and tattoos I agree.

    • @MoroccanAnwar
      @MoroccanAnwar 2 года назад +3

      @@Omegaman1969 womens jeans 😁😁😁

    • @josephphelan646
      @josephphelan646 Год назад

      He certainly didn't . He knew how to pull n pick them !!

  • @Manu-Official
    @Manu-Official Год назад +1

    Dd'you like tha'?

  • @alexthomas637
    @alexthomas637 2 года назад

    👏👏👍

  • @jamesdeluca6657
    @jamesdeluca6657 2 месяца назад

    I seriously cant believe what shes saying ,jeeesh it was like this back then!!! Get a job lady ,unbelievable

  • @babycharliebrown
    @babycharliebrown 2 года назад +1

    Fred it wasn’t England but Scotland AKA James Watt who invented the steam engine!

    • @damonrobus-clarke533
      @damonrobus-clarke533 Год назад +1

      Actually Thomas Newcomen did, but James Watt improved it a lot!

  • @Bendog300
    @Bendog300 Год назад

    I bet he was ripped under those overalls

  • @dav01kar
    @dav01kar 10 месяцев назад

    Young crumpet aint all its cracked up

  • @matiapolano1552
    @matiapolano1552 9 месяцев назад +1

    Seems nice, I don't like the homosexual comment though, still stuck in the past with that (as a gay man myself). But otherwise, he seems like a good dude and leads an idealic life.

  • @jamesdeluca6657
    @jamesdeluca6657 2 месяца назад

    I think hes a frustrated coal miner😂❤

  • @Gogetemscoobie
    @Gogetemscoobie Месяц назад

    Shame he knocked his wife about

  • @ottoalseely3609
    @ottoalseely3609 Год назад

    Rome ruined our world!😂

  • @seamusblack5876
    @seamusblack5876 2 года назад +1

    This is hard to watch pathetic how he let that women tell him what to do

    • @Embracing01
      @Embracing01  2 года назад +12

      Plenty of women like that. At least Fred's wife seemed decent, Most blokes are married to right bi*ches and control freaks. Today most couples don't stay together for long, divorces are really common now unlike years ago. I think TV plays a big part in the break up of relationships and all the crap they are watching like soaps and realty TV like Love Island where men lust for some the "perfect" woman and all their brainwashing. plus now we have social media which is affecting peoples minds.

    • @MoroccanAnwar
      @MoroccanAnwar 2 года назад

      @@Embracing01 100% East enders makes them think every man is having affairs

  • @Sam-bz4hf
    @Sam-bz4hf 10 месяцев назад

    His new Mrs was terrible considering he made her

  • @user-vg5rv5xf4u
    @user-vg5rv5xf4u 11 месяцев назад

    Der yer like dat?

  • @stevegoody3434
    @stevegoody3434 Год назад

    What happened to sue