I loved the old days, none of this health and safety nonsense, no 20 mile exclusion zone and moving 500 people to hotels, just a national treasure and a box of matches 😀😀
Sweat pouring out of my palms, and my legs have gone watching this. That man......if this was all he did, he would be a legend, but he did way way more.......a huge knowledge of engineering, master draughtsman, historian, contructed a working coalmine in his back garden, traction engine renovator....and tv presenter. He must have been incredibly fit....his core strength is phenomenal. All those years of working with sooty bricks, oil, grease and coal dust did for him....for Fred, eating a sandwich with black coal dust hands was normal. Health and Safety was unheard of....and it cost him his life through bladder cancer. A really extraordinary life. Had this series of tv programmes not bought him to a wider audience, his extraordinary life and knowledge may never have been appreciated by anyone outside Bolton. His love of Industrial Britain and his fearlessness help to define why Britain became the global hub it was....a truly extraordinary man.
The level of strength and fitness to climb that plus the overhangs. Unbelievable effort and Fred was not 20 years old at the time plus he smoked. Just amazing. I just could not do it at all. Hats off to you Fred 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@0OriginalE0 Still a remarkable man, climbing with no harness and hoisting those ladders and wood plus climbing when the ladder was angled backwards at the very top. I don’t know how he did it. A wonderful character. 👍
