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Fred Dibnah was born on 28 April 1938. [3] He was the son of Frank and Betsy Dibnah (née Travis), [4] who were initially both employed at a bleach works.His mother later worked as a charwoman at a gas works. [5]
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; ... Photo taken at the Fred Dibnah Memorial, Bolton town centre, Greater ... Microsoft Windows Photo Viewer 6.1.7600 ...
Other articles have Bolton, Lancashire, England. There hasn't been problem there. This issue hasn't been settled. Cayden (talk) 20:41, 22 April 2007 (UTC) There is still contention about Fred Dibnah's birth place area, which is whether Bolton, Lancashire, England (how it was at the time he was born) and simply Bolton, England.
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.
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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;
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
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 ...