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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This is a story you&ve never heard before a hilarious & heartwarming comedy about Fred Claus Santa&s brother- & complete opposite After growing up in saintly Nick&s shadow Fred becomes a grouch who&s lost his belief in Christmas Then one magical December Fred flies north (First Class via reindeer) to find his brother Nick is in trouble a scheming efficiency expert is out to shut down Christmas forever! Expect fun by the sleighful as Fred helps save Christmas & rediscovers the gift of family Join Vince Vaughn Miranda Richardson Rachel Weisz Kathy Bates Kevin Spacey & more in a yuletide treat to enjoy for years to come ...
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Collection of programmes from the BBC series following Fred Dibnah as he investigates Britain&s industrial heritage Including & The Industrial Landscape& & The Machines That Changed the World& & Men of Iron& & The Victorian Gentleman& & Preserving Our Past& & All Steamed Up& & & Riches Beneath the Earth& the collection also features interviews with the people who knew the steeplejack Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play ...
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All six episodes from steeplejack Fred Dibnah&s TV series looking at Britain&s architectural heritage The episodes are & Mighty Cathedrals& & The Art of Castle Building& & The Age of the Carpenter& & Scottish Style& & Building the Canals& & & Victorian Splendour& ...
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play FRED DIBNAH&S FAVOURITES COLLECTION Fred brought great passion & excitement to everything that caught his eye when it came to the making of things Iron & steel wood & fire the power of harnessed elements the brilliant genius of the creative mind He had an enormous love & respect for crafted things from the widest bridge to the smallest nut & bolt Fred conveys that passion in these three superb collections in which he travels explores & expounds on some of his favourite things THE BACKYARD COLLECTION Fred s backyard was his pride & joy his playground & a place where he breathed life back into rusty old machinery & steam engines This unique collection features footage shot with Fred in his extraordinary backyard over seven years of filming for the BBC BACK STREET MECHANIC In which we visit Fred Dibnah s backyward complete with probably the finest working example of a steam powered engineering workshop in the country FRED&S ENGINES
- Here for the first time we hear from Fred the full story of his restoration of his steam roller Betsy & his Aveling & Porter convertible tractor FRED S COAL MINE
- In the last years of his life Fred built a fully working replica mine complete with a 100 foot mineshaft & fully working pit head gear! THE BUILDING COLLECTION Fred brings history vividly to life in his own inimitable hands-on style & explains how the builders & engineers of the past created great castles houses & churches & developed a ship-building industry that was the envy of the world CASTLE BUILDERS
- From Roman & Iron Age fortifications to a medieval castle that became a WWII command centre Fred looks at the great castle builders MASTER BUILDERS
- Fred visits Bath Winchester York a medieval tithe barn & more to see the work of builders thatchers roofers carpenters & stonemasons SHIP BUILDERS
- Fred goes on board some of his favourite ships including SS Great Britain HMS Warrior the Royal Yacht Britannia & much more THE INDUSTRIAL COLLECTION Mills & factories; mines & quarries; iron foundries & steel works Fred was proud of the industrial genius that made Britain the workshop of the world Here he tells stories of Britain s major industries on a tour of favourite industrial heritage sites THE INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE Born in Bolton Lancashire Fred fell in love with the industrial landscape & here takes us on a tour of industrial Britain RICHES BENEATH THE EARTH Coal lead tin iron ore Fred tours slate caverns collieries & mining museums for a personal history of British mining IRON & STEEL From Ironbridge Gorge cradle of the Industrial Revolution to Sheffield & beyond this is Fred s own history of iron & steel making




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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play FRED DIBNAH S INDUSTRIAL AGE Fred Dibnah takes a nostalgic look at Britain s Industrial Heritage In this series he recounts Britain s industrial history bringing to life landmark events from the eighteenth century up to the early twentieth century in his typically anecdotal & engaging manner Episodes Wind Water & Steam Mills & Factories Iron & Steel Mining Railways Mills & Factories FRED DIBNAH S MAGNIFICENT MONUMENTS Fred tours Britain searching out magnificent monuments from ancient earthworks through to modern day structures He looks at how & why things were built & what sort of tools & materials were used & how buildings were adapted & altered to meet changing needs Episodes Bridges & Tunnels & Pleasure Places ...
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Fred Dibnah was a man born out of his time His era should have been the 'magnificent age of British engineering'
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Fred&s backyard was his pride & joy It was his playground a place where he breathed life back into rusty old machinery & steam engines This unique collection features footage shot with Fred in his extraordinary backyard over seven years of filming for the BBC Back Street Mechanic Fred always described himself as a &back street mechanic& & the workshop in his garden where he did his &mechanicing& was a one-off It was all assembled from scrap & the cast offs from old mills & factories but it was probably the finest working example of a steam powered engineering workshop in the country Fred takes us on a tour of the backyard showing us how everything works & demonstrating some of the jobs he can do in it Fred&s Engines Fred will always be associated with his two most famous engines his steam roller Betsy & his Aveling & Porter convertible tractor Here for the first time we hear from Fred the full story of his restoration of these two engines see some of the work that went into the rebuild of the tractor & hear about some of his adventures on them including his famous Last Drop story when the roller ran out of control & crashed on a hill in Bolton Fred&s Coal Mine It&s not everybody who has a coal mine in their backyard but not everybody had one like Fred&s In the last years of his life building a fully working replica mine complete with a 100 foot mineshaft fully working pit head gear & an inclined plane railway became one of Fred&s great passions Here Fred tells us about his plans in full about his reasons for creating the mine & about his battles with the planners & we see the most comprehensive footage in existence of work on the mine ...
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Fred Dibnah's Railway Collection/ Fred Dibnah's Steam Collection DVD

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Fred Dibnah always had a passion for Steam Railways Steam Rollers Traction Engines Pumping Engines Mill Engines and Pithead Winding Engines He spent a large part of his life restoring them and studying their construction and history This collection brings together previously unseen footage shot for the BBC as Fred unearths the best of our steam and railway heritage and meets some of his fellow enthusiasts who devote their lives to finding restoring preserving and operating steam engines of all shapes and sizes The Railway CollectionThe Story Of Britain&s RailwaysFrom the earliest wooden wagon ways to the last great days of steam and the birth of the railway preservation
movement Fred gives us his own unique history of the railways in Britain Great Little Steam RailwaysFred recollects his boyhood passion for steam railways takes us on a tour of some of his favourite preservation lines and tells us some of his own railway stories Made In Britain Railway Yards And WorkshopsThe skills of building maintaining and restoring steam locomotives are still alive at the workshops of some of Britain&s preserved railways and Fred visited some of the biggest on his traction engine grand tour of Britain for theseries "Made In Britain" The Steam CollectionThe Story Of The Traction EngineFrom the first steam powered road carriages to the great road locomotives showmans engines and steam lorries of the 20th century and the birth of the preservation movement Fred
tells the story of steam power Britain&s Biggest EnginesFred travels round Britain to unearth Britain&s most powerful steam engines and their stories He takes us to huge Northern mills impressive pit head winding engines museums pumping engines and a great steel rolling mill On The Road With FredA specially edited version of Fred&s epic journey round Britain on his traction engine in 2004 Actors Fred DibnahCertificate Exempt from ClassificationLanguages EnglishDuration 14 hours (approx)
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Fred Dibnah always had a passion for Steam Railways Steam Rollers Traction Engines Pumping Engines Mill Engines & Pithead Winding Engines He spent a large part of his life restoring them & studying their construction & history This collection brings together previously unseen footage shot for the BBC as Fred unearths the best of our steam & railway heritage & meets some of his fellow enthusiasts who devote their lives to finding restoring preserving & operating steam engines of all shapes & sizes The Railway Collection The Story Of Britain&s Railways From the earliest wooden wagon ways to the last great days of steam & the birth of the railway preservation movement Fred gives us his own unique history of the railways in Britain Great Little Steam Railways Fred recollects his boyhood passion for steam railways takes us on a tour of some of his favourite preservation lines & tells us some of his own railway stories Made In Britain Railway Yards & Workshops The skills of building maintaining & restoring steam locomotives are still alive at the workshops of some of Britain&s preserved railways & Fred visited some of the biggest on his traction engine grand tour of Britain for theseries " Made In Britain" The Steam Collection The Story Of The Traction Engine From the first steam powered road carriages to the great road locomotives showmans engines & steam lorries of the 20th century & the birth of the preservation movement Fred tells the story of steam power Britain&s Biggest Engines Fred travels round Britain to unearth Britain&s most powerful steam engines & their stories He takes us to huge Northern mills impressive pit head winding engines museums pumping engines & a great steel rolling mill On The Road With Fred A specially edited version of Fred&s epic journey round Britain on his traction engine in 2004 Actors Fred Dibnah Certificate Exempt from Classification Languages English Duration 14 hours (approx)

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DVD - Digital Versitile Disc - an optical storage media
Engine - A machine designed to convert fuel into motion
Steel - An alloy made predominately of Iron combined with <2% carbon
Wooden - Something that is made from wood, from trees
Steam - Steam - water in gas form, water vapour. Commonly seen coming from a kettle
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Large - something that takes up more space than normal.
Road - a manmade lane or a path that is used to speed up travel.
Mill - A building which can grind grain into flour.
Head - The upper part of a body typically separated by the neck.

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