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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.
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.
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 ...
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The UK's Fred Dibnah, a steeplejack, became a celebrity for his technique of chimney felling. He would remove bricks from the base of the chimney and shore up the structure with wooden supports. He would remove bricks from the base of the chimney and shore up the structure with wooden supports.
Notes: Cape Mill's chimney which was felled, at the time of its demolition, by steeplejack Fred Dibnah. This event was filmed and featured in his autobiographic TV series 'The Fred Dibnah Story'. The site remained empty for several years after the mills' demolition until the land was used for a brand new housing estate.
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.