A series of seven programmes
Events in the life and work of Fred Dibnah, Bolton steeplejack 6: The Epic Journey Resumed
The Dibnah family's steam-roller and trailer trundle on through rural Cheshire. Fred complains of the landscape: 'One field looks much the same as another, and the trees, I know there are oaks and ashes and elms, but one elm tree looks much like another ...' He also complains of the sun: ' After a full day of it the whole lot's red hot, even the footplate you're standing on, and your feet are stuck to the bottom of your boots.'
The heavens oblige with a thunderstorm and the Dibnahs steam into the field where a rally is to be held the next day, their bedding sodden, their spirits dampened, their dog blackened by smoke. Narrator Deryck Guyler
Photography ARTHUR SMITH
Sound JACK WILSON , DAVE BAUMBEH Film editor PETER GIBBS
Assistant producer JEAN THOMPSON
Written and produced by DON HAWORTH BBC Manchester