Fred Dibnah

[kurgen]

TV steeplejack Fred Dibnah, 66, has lost his three-year fight against cancer only weeks after filming his final television series.

RIP Fred
dave

[user540]

Cable will eventually replace TV masts and he won't be needed anyway... this TV 'celebrity' thing is definitley getting out of hand... are we now to mourn the passing of a fvcking TV mast steeplejack??? The world has gone mad I tell ya!!!

[JPO]

Each to their own VB ............

[JPO]

I'm not a great fan of racing TBH........

[kurgen]

Cable will eventually replace TV masts and he won't be needed anyway... this TV 'celebrity' thing is definitley getting out of hand... are we now to mourn the passing of a fvcking TV mast steeplejack??? The world has gone mad I tell ya!!!

Fred never accepted the status of "celebrity" He was just a plain old northern lad who enjoyed the plainer things in life. And to be honest He spent 99% of his life up chimneys, church steeples, and the likes, rather than TV masts. Also I never said I was mourning his passing!! Just pointing out his death as a purely topical issue and passing on my condolences as I would anyone else I could relate too and who had died quite suddenly. I for one will miss his northern droll, and wit.
dave

[user540]

Aaaaah, right, he was ON TV... makes little difference to me really but now i understand, never heard of him...

It saddened me! Met him a couple of times when he was at shows with his beloved steam engine!

A real enthusiast, a sad day!

[user860]

been held up on Bolton roads by him in/on his steam engine.
what a character.