The late Fred Dibnah searches for technology from a bygone age. In this first episode, he demolishes his last ever chimney at a textile mill near Oldham. Fred visits an open cast mine near Wigan to ...

Frederick "Fred" Dibnah MBE (28 April 1938 – 6 November 2004), born in Bolton, was an English steeplejack and eccentric with a keen interest in mechanical engineering who became a cult television ...

Bundle of energy Fred Dibnah is not your bog standard television presenter. The lover of steam engines and Guinness is back on our screens and in lesser hands a series of this nature could have been ...

Fred Dibnah traces the development of steam power in Great Britain as it expanded over the course of a number of decades and revolutionised power generation, road transport and shipping. Fred Dibnah ...