A series of seven programmes of events in the life and work of Fred Dibnah the Bolton steeplejack
1: The World at Your Feet
Fred acquires the rusted wreck of a second steam engine. On the first he worked for 14 years with a concentration that enraged his waiting customers and drove his wife to threaten divorce. This time he is resolved to neglect neither family nor business and, swinging about like a trapeze artist, he conscientiously erects the scaffolding for a chimney top job that will occupy him for many weeks. But his heart is below with his engine. ' I think all the time about what I'm going to do on it at home tonight. I've solved a lot of problems sitting on the tops of factory chimneys.'
Narrator Deryck Guyler
Photography ARTHUR SMITH Sound JACK WILSON
Film editor PETER GIBBS Assistant producer JEAN THOMPSON
Written and produced by DON HAWORTH
BBC Manchester