Fred Dibnah's World of Steam, Steel and Stone

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Looking at Fred's unique garden, made from scrap and cast-offs from mills and factories.

Fred Dibnah looks at industrialisation in Britain. Dibnah's garden was perhaps the finest working steam-powered engineering workshop in the country.

The late Lancastrian steeplejack Fred Dibnah traces the development of industrialisation in Britain. Dibnah described himself as a backstreet mechanic and believed he was awarded his MBE and honorary doctorates for this reason. His garden was all assembled from scrap and the cast offs from old mills and factories, but it was probably the finest working example of a steam-powered engineering workshop in the country.

The mechanical and engineering skills he demonstrated in his garden combined with his ability to explain how things worked opened up the world of engineering history to a wide audience.

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