Fred's Stories - Fred Talks
"FRED TALKS"
Dr Fred Dibnah MBE
Fred's Stories
How many wives can tell you how their husband managed to build a steam engine in the back garden from scratch incorporating cow urine in the final product? Or smiled bravely after nearly losing his hand under a steam hammer one day? What was it like to live with someone on telly, loved by a nation? What man is candid enough to tell you his disastrous attempts with the fairer sex as a young man full of oil and pimples! Just pure Fred!
Tales include........ Our Fred - Life on a steam rally - A Bit of a lad - Any gone wrong? Canvey Island chimney disaster - A 250ft climb with Fred - Sequinned shirt and funny wig - The horrific Steam Hammer incident - Spanners and big nuts - Our Wedding Day - Our Wedding Night - Funny things he said - Maypole Colliery & free ale - Pub, a bird, a mechanical lubricator and Freds blushes! - Cow pee & fettling the boiler with Alf - 1st honorary degree (Aberdeen University) - 2nd honorary Degree (Birmingham University) - MBE a trip to meet the Queen - Fred's mate's unfortunate ailment! - Touching the Sky - The Steeplejack - Harold's little Accident
Sheila's anecdotes and tales are not in general a re-hash of those you've heard Fred himself tell at events and speaking engagements, but rather an intriguing and funny perspective observed from close quarters of life with and the antics of the world's most loved steeplejack and true British eccentric. How many husbands will give you a cast iron man hole as a birthday present, and promise you a weigh bridge next year? Or expect you to climb a 250ft chimney on a bank holiday, or treat you to a wild honeymoon on a steamroller all the way to Wigan Pier?
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