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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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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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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play This series covers 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 programme looks back at some of the sites Fred visited over the last 8 years intercut with comment from friends family experts & academics ...
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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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From Banprestos Harry Potter Q Posket line comes this super cute figure It stands approx 14 cm tall & comes in a gift box packaging ...
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From Banprestos Harry Potter Q Posket line comes this super cute figure It stands approx 14 cm tall & comes in a gift box packaging ...
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I don&t do &sit!&I don&t do &stay!& But I will love you anyway From the celebrated creators of Kipper Wibbly Pig & Zoe & Beans comes a picture book to treasure Dog is very badly behaved
- he destroys everything chases cars & won&t stop running away! But when he finds himself lost & alone there is one person he can count on Praise for Mick Inkpen& You simply cannot fail to win smiles with a new book about Kipper& Daily Mail& The charmingly comical Inkpen as always hits the spot& Guardian Praise for Zoe & Beans& These books will become well-loved members of any child&s book collection& Carousel For activities competitions & other fun stuff check out wwwchloeinkpencom Mick Inkpen has been a bestselling children&s author for over 25 years He is one of today&s most popular picture book authorillustrators & the famous creator of both Kipper & Wibbly Pig Mick has won the Children&s Book Award for Threadbear & the British Book Award twice for Penguin Small & Lullabyhullaballoo Kipper won a BAFTA for Best Animated Film It wasn&t until Mick became a father that he began his career in children&s books Now father & daughter have come together for a unique & exciting picture book partnership Chloë Inkpen grew up surrounded by picture books & has a natural gift for storytelling A love of language & art saw her swap an English degree course at Nottingham University for a degree in Illustration at the Glasgow School of Art In her final year Chloë was awarded second place in the Macmillan Prize for Illustration Chloë&s events in schools libraries & festivals across the UK regularly receive glowing reviews Mick & Chloë are the co-creators of Hole in the Zoo the Fred series & the Zoe & Beans series
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Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes

Fred Dibnah was a man born out of his time His era should have been the 'magnificent age of British engineering' - the nineteenth century - and his heroes were the great industrial engineers of the period whose prolific innovations and dedicated work ethic inspired a national mood of optimism and captured the hearts of the British public Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes tells the stories of some of these men - including George and Robert Stephenson Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Joseph Whitworth - and what it was that made them such inspirational figures to Fred What were their backgrounds? Where did their drive and vision come from? What sort of people were they at work and at home? And what was their contribution to the history of industry and engineering? Most of them - like Fred - were
colourful larger-than-life characters for whom no challenge was too great Taking these fascinating characters as inspiration Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes gets to the very heart of what allowed nineteenth-century Britannia to rule the waves
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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'
- the nineteenth century
- & his heroes were the great industrial engineers of the period whose prolific innovations & dedicated work ethic inspired a national mood of optimism & captured the hearts of the British public Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes tells the stories of some of these men
- including George & Robert Stephenson Isambard Kingdom Brunel & Joseph Whitworth
- & what it was that made them such inspirational figures to Fred What were their backgrounds? Where did their drive & vision come from? What sort of people were they at work & at home? & what was their contribution to the history of industry & engineering? Most of them
- like Fred
- were colourful larger-than-life characters for whom no challenge was too great Taking these fascinating characters as inspiration Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes gets to the very heart of what allowed nineteenth-century Britannia to rule the waves

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