Fred Dibnah's House 2022 (Unique Insight) Exclusive 

That is so cool, if I ever make it over to England, I'm definitely going to Bolton to see Fred's old home, for sure. R.I.P Fred u will never be forgotten. 🙏🇺🇲🗽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙏

Now 79 years old and a fellow steam engine owner, I had the privilege of Knowing Fred and spent so many happy hours with him at rallies and his premises at Bolton. I have eaten meals with him and his family in that house. It is nothing short of criminal and ignorant they way both he and his property has been ignored by the local council, gold diggers and others, they should be utterly ashamed of themselves. I literally shed tears watching this piece of film. Rest easy Fred. Bill Scurlock

What a lovely bloke to allow you access to the building 👍

Good old Fred! He would be really pleased we all loved and respected him. He was a simple soul but with a depth of character and stoicism rarely seen with his type of ingenuity! ❤ XXX

One of my Heroes, and I have very few.

Agree-would’ve been great to see a chimney behind that headstone….doesn’t seem enough for such a great man

I was stood outside of his house a few months ago and a chap asked me if I wanted a look around. So he gave me a tour. I’ve met Fred a number of times, usually at steam ups and once on the train but I’d never been in his house. I always pay my respects at Tonge cemetery whenever I’m up that way. I’m glad you saw his house too, but it’s all very empty without him and a very sad end and grave to a simply brilliant man.☹️

What a nice owner of the house!

Having been blessed by knowing fred I watched this episode and greatly enjoyed the gentleman's respect he showed when invited by the new owners of Fred's old home to go and see the shed and yard, it is a poiniant reminder of what once was, then to be invited into the house was a great joy, Fred's presence is everywhere there, he was indeed a talented multi crafter and master of much, the biker gentleman to my mind showed his respect throughout and seemed genuinely saddened at Fred's final resting place, bless you sir, fred would have been pleased to chat to you, he was just that type 9f guy, he loved to chat, a real man of the people...seldom have I seen such reverence, thank you for a lovely production, and safe biking to you sir....respect to you Daevid

I just watched the video of Fred putting in the threaded rods across his house because he was a bit worried about the bowing out of the brickwork at the back. That’s where the square plates with large nuts are at pavement level in the front. They connect to the round embellishments at the rear above the windows. What a man.

Im so sad to see his workshop empty 😢 what a shame 😞

Going back a few years ago the previous owner (Leon) allowed myself and my wife to stay for a w/e and we slept in Fred's bedroom. And we had the run of the house and garden. Absolutely fantastic. We met Fred's side kick Alf had photos taken. We also went to tong cemetery to take tribute to Fred. Lots of memories. Ps when standing outside the side entrance look at the ground you will see the impressions of his steam roller as it came out. Can you remember the program where he is felling a chimney and he has a heavy black and white pullover on. What was left of it was in the garage on the floor.

Brilliant👍I met Fred at Eastnor Castle what a great man glad to see that the custodians of his house are enthusiastic about the property they own 🇬🇧🙋‍♂️

The place should be bought up by Bolton and turned into a Fred Dibnah heritage centre. Fully restored to what it was like, when Fred and family were there.

A great insight into a true north west legend, My father-in-law was a scrap dealer he knew him well , how nice of the owner to show you round. A great little video.

It's lovely to see that people still respect and support this beautiful place. Fred was definitely 1 of a kind no doubt about it. Unfortunately though, it is a shame the grounds and his workshop's are just a shell of what they were. I heard that Jack, his eldest. Had gone on to do engineering? And whoever had bought the ground before had sold on a lot of stuff? I don't know how true that is. I think Jack was quite involved with the steam engines after Fred had passed, but for how long I don't know. But it's really great to see that people still respect and pay a visit to a very special place indeed. You'll always be forever remembered Fred 🍻🏗🚂🇬🇧👍

Why the hell didn't BOlTON council buy Fred's house and turn it into a museum in Fred's memory,

Wow, you really got lucky to get a full tour of the house! We went a few days ago and some workmen saw us looking and invited us to look around the yard. I didn't know there was a mineshaft. I took loads of photos and saw they had opened the back door. I walked up to take a photo of the Rayburn cooker through the doorway and they said we could go inside! We had a good look around the kitchen. There was a dartboard and pictures of Fred on the wall. Afterwards, we went to see his statue in the town centre. I met a lovely old man who knew Fred.

Thank you so much for posting this. Very emotional watching it. Such a huge fan of Fred and his work. Means so much to see this.

That is one of the best videos on RU-vid. If not the best video on RU-vid. I always thought Mrs Dibnah the 3rd would be living there. A special thank you to the owner for letting you in. ❤

Thanks mate for the heads up on Freds place. What a amazing human being he certainly kept me spell bound, Genius.

A man to be looked up to a genius and inspiration. Nice video, well done. RIP The Great Fred Dibnah.

I enjoyed it, the great Fred dibnah... So many miss him.. Still..... Thank you all..... 😊😊🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷👌

I make armour for a living so I share Fred's obsession with rivets! This location could have been such an important heritage centre... reminding the next generation that not everything can be bought with an app nor created in resin with a 3-D printer! Hand to eye skills, that unexplainable joyful feeling we have when something born of sweat' tears and cunning comes to life for the first time! It doesn't matter if that thing is a clock or a steam-engine, this is the ingenuity that built England, and it's this same skill-set hat will save it once again when the lights go out. RIP legend, I am however happy to see that at least the current owners respect Fred's legacy even though it's beating, steaming heart has been removed. Best wishes from a French forest. ⚒️🇬🇧⚒️

i agree with your sentiments, thanks for sharing..........

Thank you for taking the time to present this video in the memory of a very special an unique man whom was highly intelligent in every aspect of engineering. From Steam power and Bridge engineering. Fred was born to late. I’m sure Brunel and Fred if in the Era would have come up with some great inventions.

A great man, thank you for showing us that, I’m on my way this weekend, RIP Fred xx

Great video, certainly shared in your sentiments, Fred was a great man, thank you for uploading 👍🏻

Brilliant video and thanks for sharing. Fred was down to earth and hard working. A true legend. We won't see his like again. Respect and God bless.

Brilliant vid & a big thanks to the guys for letting you have a walk round hope to visit one day myself 🇬🇧👍

Thanks for uploading this, I totally agree on the sadness thing... he was a great man and deserves more I think. I applaud your reverence.

I loved watching freds programme in the late 80s early nineties!!!! REST EASY FRED 🕊👊🇬🇧

I have watched your film many times , its a legend to behold. Thankyou for producing a natural piece of Lancashire.

I felt certain that Bolton Council or the National Trust would have bought Fred's house lock stock and barrel. The wonderful and unique character of Fred is now famous across the globe thanks to RU-vid etc. I echo the sentiments of many at the lost opportunity to preserve the legacy he left in Bolton. I can hardly bear to watch this video. RIP Fred- hope you're enjoying a few pints of 'pop' in heaven!

Think it's very kind that this fella let you into his home for a look around, Dibnahs memory is with the living

Truly sad this is miss Fred so much loved watching him especially the early days.

Needs to be a working museum for paid visitors to come and enjoy

Used to see him at the steam fair in Urmston when I was a kid he was a nice guy used to chat to us showing his vehicles he loved and was proud of owning them

Grew up watching Fred on TV. Most amazing man. Great Video well done.👍

His last wife leeched everything and the UK and Bolton couldn't care less about poor Fred . What a Country we live in .

What really nice bloke let you look around glad he's keeping house as it was great video thanks for sharing 👍

Great clip.. Fred is gaining in popularity if anything I think - I saw a section of that vid where the chimney nearly falls on him as part of a modern music video.

We desparately need more Fred Dibnahs.

Great video! A true, genuine stately home!

Great video. I feel the sadness you felt walking out of the graveyard and I only know of Fred Dibnh from the TV and You Tube. Thank God the footage of his life and time exist…

Thank you very much, I enjoyed that, and Fred's programmes. Met him once, nice chap.

Thanks for the video you did a wonderful job with what you had to work with. I have always wanted to see inside his house not as big as it looks form the out side . Definitely brought a tear to my eye to see what has happened to all his things. The BBC should have looked after him better after his passing. What a guy

What a lovely guy to let you look around Fred R.I.P

Fred was an amazing man, it seems there wasn’t much he couldn’t do.I only learned of him a couple of years ago when I ran across a few short videos on you tube, that’s all it took and I was hooked. This video you made is very good but also very sad. In other videos I’ve seen, the yard was full of activity, men working on various pieces of machinery and Fred operating a steam powered winch, digging in the mine shaft. Now sadly it’s all gone. He truly is the last of a dying breed. I live in America and if I ever get to England I would love to see his house in person, I wish I could have met him, who knows maybe in the next life. Once again, you video was very good. Thank you for posting it.

Wow thanks for this mate 👊

What lovely peaple to show you around thank you so much for showing us Fred was last off the real men

Never had the pleasure of meeting Fred. However, having watched lots of footage about him, I think he was a real gentleman. And a massive loss to the UK 😢

Thanks for sharing

thank you for filming house. Its truly sad that it wisent preserved as it should have been. an opportunity lost. and a Legacy destroyed.

Great video 📹 mate the new owners were very welcoming excellent, would love to give it a visit myself... Cheers 🍻.

Truly heart-breaking to see his house like this.

Hi Thanks for sharing such a great Video, of a great engineer and a great man.

Sad to see it like that but I suppose we are lucky it's still standing with all the development that's gone on. I went a couple of months ago myself as I was near the Bolton area. I'm lucky to have Fred's old 1927 AJS

If British history was to be preserved which it isn't ,Bolton council would have turned the place into a museum.

As u was mentioning the items at the grave site,i said,,,where's the ornate chimney, and cast iron chain link surround 😢he even says in one of the vids,when im 6 foot under ill have a grate big chimney monument for a head stone😅 it was quite sad😢but then he was a spend it when u got it ,cos u cant take it with ya😅 brilliant vid,thanks 4 sharing it👍great timing on your behalf,,🤔perhaps he knew u was visiting👍cheers..

I live in Australia and loved watching the videos... what a character,..born in Bournemouth in 61 myself and moved out here with the parents in 70 ... times in the 60s as a kid i could relate to some of his early stuff...he had a great passion...r.i.p

Amazing video a real tribute to Fred and his work.

Just found your channel and Subscribed. Nice job

I'm surprised Birmingham and Aberdeen universities haven't posthumously rescinded his honoraries, given his straight-talking nature and love of British history. Very sad watching this, I'm not spiritual at all, but there was an eeriness about the shed with echoes of him working out there. Used to love watching his series as a teenager in the early 80s.

I went here when Leon still owned it, just before he had to sell things off.... the place was practically un touched really, the pit head gear was still there end the engine he uses for winding (raising and lowering the bucket) his tool shed was a mess!! But a meas fred had left it in, organised chaos. I met his mate Alf... there was a small burner they were using in the big shes just to warm place up, the burner was actually the old boiler from Betsy that was found behind the sheds... his original steam shop engine has gone but there was another in place, no traction engines were there... the place is amazing and if I had the money is out it back to how he had it, being back the steam driven work shop, and allow the few that can to use to it to so repairs on old chimneys and steam engines... I once helped restore a mill engine, there phenomenal machines my only regret is it never got to fully run and still hasn't 14 years later.

Fred was a national treasure and the salt of the earth, I never had the pleasure of meeting the great man but he will never be forgotten, Boltonians must have been so proud of him. May God bless you Fred, sadly missed.

I think Fred would be happy that he doesn't have an extravagant grave, just something simple for a simple man (that's how he saw himself). And yeah, I think that Bolton council missed a trick by not putting the house into a trust, not just for Fred's memory, but to showcase the past history of the area.

at the end of the day "we" cannot turn everything into a museum. Life goes on, even if it is a grade 2 listed building, a fact that some previous comments seem not to understand when moaning about lack of council "action"

He was definitely a character, I loved watching him taking down a tall chimney and how he explained how. Old school intelligent guy.

Great video. Thanks.

Very sad to see Fred's sheds stripped of all his machinery and tools gone

Fred's documentarys kept you captivated from the first minute to the last minute his knowledge and drawings was amazing fred new what he was talking about you get actor's politicians and news readers working off a script not our fred so much knowledge god bless you young man❤

You lucky man. I have been following Fred since day one watching BBC TV look north.

Im what you might call across the pond a "Yank" but ive seen almost all of his videos from when i was a kid and im 40 now. Its great to see that his place is still there and not falling down. Im sad to hear that the previous owners desecrated it but hopefully this new owner will get it in shape. Not many people like fred in this world close to none in the states where im at. Men like Fred were my inspiration to get into the trades. Im in auto repair myself but steam engineering really fascinates me. R.I.P. to a one of a kind!

Someone should start a gofundme to do up Fred's grave and put something fitting to the great Dr Dibnah 🙏🏻

Engineers such as Fred, we don't have anymore. Mainly because here in England we don't have the industries that shaped blokes like Fred! Legend of a man.

Fred Dibnah was a very talented man in my opinion, always sad to see his home with new owners and thinking of all that went on there when he was working on his personal projects! R.I.P Fred🙂

Fred is a true legend....

How wonderful that the current owners let you look around. Listening to his accent I could hear Ted talking. ❤

I feel like you.. Butter sweet and he should have a chimney.. I'm sure he wanted to pass through his pit which was leading to the cemetery... Its sad to see his gravestones so crap tbh... His legasy will always live on 😊

I remember my friends dad watching Fred on tv telling me 20 someodd years ago , what a legend Fred was. And I couldnt agree more today...and I live in Canada, he certainly had an effect on the world

Wow ! That blue plaque says it all. RIP oh great one.

Well done !

Thanks so much for your video, yes Fred was an amazing man, I agree it's so sad that everything was cleaned out, there's something about fred that gets on you, I think he would have been a very trust worthy person...

Amazing. I thought the local council had forced the executors of his estate to clear the site. Good to know something remains.

All Fred’s hard work all gone. RIP Fred Dibnah.

I have no idea how he wa able to build those engines/ the sheds/ the driveway/ the house / have so many kids and wives/ dismantle all those chimneys brick by brick/ and so so much more in he's relatively short life .... amazing

May sound weird, but the new owner seems like a good bloke and he has the right laugh. The laugh of a hard worker.

I met Fred on a number occasions always a true gent, he was behind me in shop on Bury Rd once he only had a packet of crumpets so I let him go infant of me, he turned round to lady on till and said "that lady said she'd pay" 😅😅 such a funny guy

For it is not the house you seek since it was there before and after the man, it is the man’s spirit you seek who has gone ahead. May the good Lord have had mercy on his soul I pray Fred knew him as his savior

So glad to see its been taken care of. Sad they had to move things out.

That was cool u were able to get around his place

You feel exactly as I do my hero 👍🏻

Mr Uncle Fred to me there when I was a kid, Fred would have been in his mid 20s, he gave me a motor as I was interested in anything mechanical I’m now 71 👴🏻👍

Legend, paradigm, last of a great age. God rest the Dibnah!

Thanks.

very sad indeed but thank you, thank you , thank you🙏

Imo I think it should have been purchased by someone on the condition that everything is left alone. The house and grounds should be a time capsule of Fred’s life. He truly is an English legend and his memory deserves better treatment. In 20 years the house won’t resemble anything that Fred built. Very sad. He’ll definitely be spinning in his grave.

At least it's being kept as it should be ...but let's remember it hasn't belonged to fred dibna since 2004

Such a nice guy to let you in for a look round