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  2. Fred Dibnah - Wikipedia

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    The chimney built by Dibnah for his mother, in Bolton. At school Dibnah was placed in an art class (his reading and writing skills were judged to be poor), [12] following which he spent three years at art college, where his work was based mainly on industrial themes such as machinery, pithead gear and spinning mills.

  3. Traction engine - Wikipedia

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    Fred Dibnah's funeral procession (November 2004), headed by Dibnah's 1912 Aveling & Porter. Fred Dibnah of Bolton, England, was known as a National Institution in Great Britain for the conservation of old traction engines and other steam engines. His television series Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain shows him touring the United Kingdom in his ...

  4. Hobby tunneling - Wikipedia

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    At his death in 2011 he had completed 300 metres (980 ft) of tunnel, which was subsequently closed off. [1] In late 2003 steeplejack and television personality Fred Dibnah began to dig a replica coal mine in the back garden of his home. Using traditional shaft-sinking techniques and the labour of mining friends Alf Molyneux and Jimmy Crooks ...

  5. Raikes Park Greyhound Stadium - Wikipedia

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    When the BGTCS was disbanded, Bolton reverted to being independent. After World War II, a neighbouring chimney being demolished by steeplejacks fell and landed on the greyhound tracks kennels causing significant damage. Fred Dibnah witnessed the event watching from the allotments south of Raikes Lane; motivated by the event he became a ...

  6. File:Fred Dibnah Memorial, Bolton (4).JPG - Wikipedia

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  7. List of mills in Shaw and Crompton - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1970s, Bolton steeplejack Fred Dibnah was paid £7000 to demolish Briar mill's chimney one brick at a time. His efforts and dare-devil methods are documented in his autobiographic BBC TV series 'The Fred Dibnah Story. [3] Brook / Crompton Fold: UNKNOWN

  8. Swan Lane Mills - Wikipedia

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    In 1983, Swan Lane Mills was featured in an episode of the documentary Fred, in which Fred Dibnah is hired to remove the decorative ornamental on top of the chimney [12] by then the last decorative topped chimney in Bolton. [13] He was paid £4,000 (1982) for the work.

  9. List of people from the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton

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    This is a list of notable people from Bolton in North West England. ... Fred Dibnah (1938–2004) – steeplejack, engineer and TV presenter, [48] [49] born in Farnworth;