American Construction Worker Reacts "Fred Dibnah's Made In Britain - Chains And Copper - Ep. 10" 

Guy Martin is about as close a modern reincarnation of Fred as you are likely to come across. Motorcycle racer, racing car driver and heavy truck mechanic. Who went on to become a TV presenter after he appeared in an Isle of Man TT race documentary. He now holds the world speed records for snow sleds, soapbox, Wall of Death, hovercraft and tractor. After making loads of TV documentaries.

I'm born and bred in Lancashire like Fred, that's not a posh pub it's just cleaned properly, like we expect, proud Lancastrians. Fred was a steeplejack, he was a son of Lancashire and loved by us all.

This was such a good series 😊

When you go to a chippy and they ask you if you want your fish & chips open or wrapped (usually just after asking if you want salt & vinegar on them), open is usually in a rolled up cone of wrapping paper to eat them on the go and wrapped is all fully wrapped up to form a parcel to be opened later on. They always have a box of free wooden forks on the counter for you to use if your hands aren't clean or you don't want to get burnt or greasy fingers.

The fish n chip shop at the Black Country museum has coal fired friers. There used to be chippy on almost every street corner, along with a pub

Fish and chips is something you can find basically everywhere, but especially at seaside towns.

watching your faces as you've reacted to this series has been a joy in itself.

Donkeys years ago you didn’t have food in pubs apart from salted nuts and crisps.

That loco called Prince was the inspiration for the character Duke in TTTEAF

These Welsh heritage lines are (in part) the home of Thomas the Tank Engine. The author W. Awbry worked for a time on the Talyllyn Railway a few miles south of here!

Thanks a lot for showing this one lads. I must admit to shedding a couple of tears when Fred was driving the train and looked as excited as a five year old ! And you were talking about Thomas the Tank Engine, superb. 🎉

My husband and I grew up watching Fred do his thing here. As a steeplejack he terrified my eyes! Congrats on your 100k. Very well deserved, lads. Please keep them coming. P.S. Sadly - we can quote almost all the lines in Father Ted verbatim. You both have great taste :o) Thank you from the UK.

There is a traditional fish and chip shop on the museum's grounds, that uses old fashioned lard to cook the chips. Like the pub, I believe, it was moved to the museum brick by brick, and rebuilt as what they call a recorded build. ( Each brick, tile or stone block had a code painted on it to give its position in the building. Plus a few reclaimed mathing bricks etc from other buildings to allow breaks. I did a bricklaying training course on the museum a long time ago.)

11:07 Llangollen, looks they went straight through my home town, also has areas Slate mining, part castle on hill over looking the town in dee valley, with river dee the horse drawn canal boats in summer, the Llangollen steam railway, the horse shoe falls, International Musical Eisteddfod every july people from all over the world come to perform for few weeks town goes from 3300 people to nearly 30k people back in the day and so much much more. they days good health i cycled 30 miles a day 10k miles a year around dee valley such pretty area and great landscapes and fun driving roads very twisty at times. end summer going back for a month if not a bit more brake away, not been for year so excited to get back exploring wales again. i do not travel Fred way form the midlands, i head south then west in to south wales then head north a great drive with great views a 7-8 hour drive, were i am now, only 12 miles from the black country museum, brings back 300 years history from the local area. the buildings you see at the black country museum they were taken down brick by brick and numbered and put back up in the black country museum i seen on on vid about it, they have different areas going through the years Covering 26 acres and old trams / buses to get you to other areas if you do not want to walk a fun day out if in the midlands

The museum chip shop still fry in beef dripping (not oil, like everyone else these days) which is why they taste so good.

Fred is happy in the great workshop in the sky

The titanic’s anchor and its chain was made in the Black Country. Using the same method as what is shown in this video. Just on a larger scale 😉

20:55 - Bell flares on brass instruments (cornets through to tubas) and sax bells (as saxes aren't brass instruments) are still formed in this same manner. You ought to check out a Yamaha or Yanagisawa sax factory tour video as it looks loads more dangerous spinning sax bells because of their shape.

It's so great to see the reaction of delight from the both of you as you watch our Fred, he was and remains a magical character , a real national treasure, God bless you Fred.

Congrats on 100k guys. Been watching for a while now and always enjoy your content!

Well done for hitting 100K . Far to many pubs are closing now , but never far from a Chippy , about 40 years ago , Fish & chips was served in a cone if eating now or fully wrapped if taken home , but old news paper was used for the cone & fully wrapped . When fish & chips were eaten , bite the bottom of the cone off & drink the very salty malt vinegar from the cone , Heaven , wash hands from news print from holding cone , 1 reason they were cheap to eat using old news paper

Not fancy ..thats just a normal old style pub .. unfortunately not many left nw

The fish and chips were from the chippie around the corner.

My parents and myself moved to our village in West Yorkshire in 1967 when I was 7 years old. The village had a Sub Post Office, a home bakery, 2 fish and chip shops, 2 greengrocers shops, 2 garages that sold petrol, a chemists shop, a newsagents shop, an off licence shop, 2 drapers shops and 2 pubs….all gone now! It also had 2 reasonably large wire drawing mills that employed quite a lot of the village. They closed with all the work going to India. The two mills were demolished and houses built on them. This is a sign of the times and in my opinion a very sad thing. Village life is quickly vanishing. Pubs especially are closing daily in their hundreds up and down the Country. I know there was a lot of hardship and times were hard back at the time of the Industrial revolution but if I had Doctor Who's TARDIS I would willingly go back to those days. Congrats on your 100,000 subs lads👏

You two must hire motorcycles and tour North Wales, in particular the Llyn Peninsula starting at Porthmadog where that last part of the vid was filmed (Boston Lodge). Follow the coastline and see some quaint little seaside towns like Criccieth and Abersoch.

I found the very last bit, the train chugging past and side view of Fred, incredibly touching somehow. I'm a Lancashire lass and adored Fred (still do). ❤

Brilliant video thanks guys👍🇬🇧

My father used to work as a fireman, loading the coal into the firebox of a steam train when he was a young man between Swansea and Paddington, on the GWR (God's Wonderful Railway), and he told me that if you needed to take a crap when the train was moving, you couldn't get into the train to use the toilet, so you would go on the coal shovel, and throw it in the fire when you had finished... You would leave the shovel in the fire for a while to clean it because you would have to use the same shovel later to cook your bacon and eggs on... 😂Years later my uncle, who was in his seventies by then, who also used to work for GWR when he was younger, was one of the team of guys who restored steam trains locally, at the old 'Six Pits Line' in Swansea, and he used to drive the steam train pulling carriages for locals and tourists. He once invited me up on the footplate to drive the train... whilst it had carriages full of passengers, but it all went smoothly. I also got to shovel coal into the firebox as we were rolling, it was an experience I will never forget.

I think you missed the fact that one of the lads went to the fish and chip shop " next door " and got the grub while the others got the beer in ?? I don't think you would get fish and chips wrapped in newspaper in the pub ?? In fact, They must have arranged to do that with the management of the pub because its really taboo to bring " your own food " into a pub and consume it there !! All for the camera and posterity !!

Don't forget the 1999 BBC tie-in book with this series that shows what's open to the public, then cross reference it with google to see what will be open when you both come over.

well done on 100k guys!

My grandfather’s father was a chain maker in Netherton in Dudley. It’s very near the Black Country museum and I believe he worked on the Titanic chain. It was absolutely enormous. There’s a monument paying tribute to it in Netherton. It was the English man, Abraham Darby the elder, also born in Wren’s Nest in Dudley, who first discovered that using coke instead of charcoal to produce iron and this led to the Industrial Revolution. He had moved to Coalbrookdale in Shropshire and from that, the world’s first iron bridge was built. Now called Ironbridge the bridge still stands today. He revolutionised the world as we know it today. Yes, fish and chips are everywhere and they’re not posh, though some posh places have cashed in on traditional fish and chips.

I used to go to North Wales every year when i was young and one of our favourite things to do was go on the Ffestiniog Railway. We'd start off at the Blaenau Ffestiniog station and head to Porthmadog, the sights you see are fantastic, the video you've just seen really does not do it justice! Once at Porthmadog you can either walk around for 20-30 mins or so before returning on the Ffestiniog railway or you can walk about 50 yards and get on the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway which is (i believe now fully open) and will take you all the way to Caernarfon via Mt Snowdon, I personally have not been on this train as it's been a long time since i've been to Wales but have driven around those areas and to be honest I think that the whole of the Snowdonia national park is some of the most beautiful places in the whole of the UK! Also at Blaenau Ffestiniog there is the Llechwedd Slate Mine where you can actually go 500ft down into the mines and see what it was like to work in a slate mine! I would sugest if you ever decide to come to the UK to spend 2 days here 1 for each of these activities. Oh and i do believe somewhere at or near the slate mine is the UK's/Europes/Worlds, longest/fastest/highest (can't remember which of these it was!) zip line. A short drive from Ffestiniog is the place where me and my family used to stay Betws-y-Coed and again is one of the most beutiful places to go, we'd spend a couple of weeks there at a time and for the most of it we'd just be going hiking, cycling or swimming in the river. I'd highly recommend at least doing a google search and just look through the pictures! And ofc last but not least a trip to North Wales is not complete without a trip up Mt Snowdon, you could either walk up then back down all of which will take around about 5hrs but is worth it or you could just cheat and take the train to the top! 😉or back down or whatever combination you want! just a warning it can get very very cold near the top and there is often ice if not snow so go prepared!

The pub likely does not do meals, the fish and chips brought were likely from the chip shop over the road hence him going to fetch them. When buying fish and chips one gets them wrapped to take home or open to eat straight away. The metal spinning, making an ornamental finial for a steam engines funnel, or more recently making the burn chamber for NASA's rocket engines!

I don't think they said where they were at the start but my money is on Ironbridge. When you do make it over, definitely visit Ironbridge and go to Blists Hill.

They didn't get their food from the pub. In almost every town there will be at least 1 'Chip Shop' or 'Chippy'. These are usually small shops that sell chips (you call the fries. Fries are not chips, Chips are a lot bigger about half an inch thick), and many other things to accompany them. Fish in crispy batter, sausage, battered sausage, many different pies, beef and ale, cheese and onion, chicken and veg, etc.... Then you can get as a side order, mushy peas (just normal peas cooked down until they turn into mush, or gravy (a thick sauce made from beef stock), sometimes curry sauce.. These shops are almost always take away. In times gone by you would ask for fish and chips. The seller would take a page of yesterdays news paper, put a small grease proof paper on top and then would use a scoop to gather up some chips and put them on top of the paper. Then they would get a piece of battered fish and place in on top of the pile of chips. They'd then ask if you wanted salt and vinegar sprinkled over them. Then in a few skillful hand moves would fold and wrap the whole thing in a tight little paper bundle. Or, you could ask to have you food to "Eat Now" and they would magically convert a sheet of news paper into a cone shape like you see in the video... They're not allowed to use old newspaper now for fear of the ink leaking into the food and making people ill. Even though they've been doing it for over half a century without any ill effects. Now they have to use clean sheets of paper wasting time, money, energy. Getting your evening meal as you walked home from work and it being wrapped in a newspaper was a great way to recycle. Now the news paper has to travel many miles by many large wagons to a factory to be cleaned and the ink removed, then made back into sheets of paper to be put back on one of the many trucks and travel many miles back to the chip shop. What a waste of energy.

No 'airs and graces' authentic, down to earth human beings. My Dad ,called Fred also, was made of this ilk and I am so proud of him.

My Great Grandfather Evan Parry was a slate miner, before that he worked on the land. He probably got his name from Parys Mountain, on Anglesey.I found him at the age of 15 working on the Beaumaris Estate as an agricultural worker.

1986. Fred demolished the 100 foot chimney where I worked. It was an awe inspiring sight

Great to see you fellas side by side 😎

I love those trains, part of my childhood memories.

The slate museum is very well worth a visit. I found it by accident a couple of years ago. Ended up spending a wonderful half-day there and I was only looking for a toilet!

that was a standard pub. One of the guys went to the chip shop and got them all cones of chips. Cones are easier to hold. Not all that long ago the cones weren't plain paper they were made of old newspapers

Sadly missed RIP fred dibnah ❤❤

Love your observations gents....

fish and chips to go , like your hamburgers to go

I've been down the 2nd largwat slate mine in Wales its amazing. I live in Norwich, Norfolk and 30 minutes away is Sheringham wh8ch has the Sheringham steam railway which runs daily from Sheringham to Holt I've been on that a few times. Every year they do a 40's day where its turnes into the 1940's and everybody wears the appropriate clothes its like being sent back in time.

Restore and Stay is a Statement I'm Familiar with.

So the second or maybe the 3rd thing you see on the Titanic wreck is the huge anchor chain on the deck was made there, and its still there.

Fish and chips are served everywhere from fine dining to wrapped in paper. The only thing that differs is the price!!! In London hotels you can pay £40 for fish and chips, my local chip'oil sells 'em for £7.50!!!

Hello from Scotland x

Oh wow Amlwch! Wasn’t expecting to see there - I used to go on so many holidays near there as a kid and remember swimming in Amlwch They’ve got a cone of chips and it’s definitely not from the pub 😂 We still wrap chips in paper but it’s not newspaper any more Most of my life it has not been wrapped in newspaper (I’m 31) but I do recall seeing it the odd time when I was little and I’m sure the ink could get on the chips haha

As you love trains check out the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch railway. It’s a miniature railway in the South East of England, runs from Hythe to Dungeness (Britains only desert).

You should definitely check out anything with Guy Martin. The nearest thing you could imagine to a modern day reincarnation of Fred

men on steam trains..its a yes from me

you guys should do a video on the black country museum well worth a watch where we black country folk go at least 3 times a year a living musuem nothing better than a bostin day out and its where they filmed some of peaky blinders

Surprised they never showed them crossing the Menai Strait - the treacherous stretch of water that separates Anglesey from the mainland. Famous bridge too.

Metal spinning is how cymbals used to be made... might still be for all I know..

I grew-up and went to school there. Just normal.

I'm from the black country...and yes best chips in the country battered chips for the win

Nothing like a gentle strike.

They went out for the fish and chips

Did u stop reacting to father Ted love your reactions your both lovely people

Too many young men worried about benefits and latest trending tik tok and Instagram videos these days.. Guys like Dibnah are sadly a dying breed..

Please have a look at, Overthinking Thomas the Tank Engine from Jago Hazzard, I think you’ll find it interesting ❤

Did you finish Father Ted?

Is that Fred's son or grandson

Whats happened to your father ted reactions