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Post by markhoopy on Dec 22, 2019 21:12:34 GMT 1
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Post by veg on Dec 22, 2019 22:10:34 GMT 1
Cool didn’t realise he was dr, got to say though £320k that all?
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Post by andy748 on Dec 22, 2019 22:38:13 GMT 1
What a legend! Fred was a hero of mine.
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Post by JonW on Dec 22, 2019 22:48:18 GMT 1
he would have had the Phd bestowed upon him by one of the Unis I would think.
He was a hero of mine too. I was thinking that it ooked like a fun place to work on my projects and then I saw the coach parties sign and thats put me off. It'd need modernising inside as well, I couldnt live with all that old stuff but its probably part of the heritage listing :/
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Post by dusty350 on Dec 22, 2019 23:12:59 GMT 1
What a legend Fred was  He truly earned every penny that he ever made. I am good with heights but some of the stuff he did was just plain crazy !! And that's a lot of house for the money - cant buy a 1 bed flat for that money around here  Dusty |
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Post by marsbar350 on Dec 22, 2019 23:24:10 GMT 1
I had a pint with him years ago in my local
the original guy martin
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Post by JonW on Dec 22, 2019 23:26:37 GMT 1
Video of the place taken in April this year:
Seems in it the custodian of the place was doing a spot the ball comp to win the house. So looks like the place was either won in that or they just sold it after the comp failed to raise enough cash.
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Post by cbm on Dec 23, 2019 8:02:18 GMT 1
What a legend Fred was He truly earned every penny that he ever made. I am good with heights but some of the stuff he did was just plain crazy !! And that's a lot of house for the money - cant buy a 1 bed flat for that money around here Dusty That's exactly what i thought Dusty |
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Post by earthman on Dec 23, 2019 9:14:10 GMT 1
I've never been there or met the man myself, only going by a thread on another forum but Fred wasn't that nice to many off camera apparently.
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Post by lolly on Dec 23, 2019 10:15:24 GMT 1
the episode i liked was the one where he had a job to do in blackpool ; he had no one to help so he took his wife and kids on "holiday" ; then enlisted them to help him
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Post by steven on Dec 23, 2019 10:39:37 GMT 1
Hi,
I, like lots,was a Fred Dibnah fan too.
Here he is getting his 1927 AJS ready to sell for "The War Effort" as he calls it, which in reality was to pay his divorce settlement when one of his wife's left.
"I once went to Leeds on that !" :-)
Steven.
PS you will need to turn the sound up, as this video has crap audio.
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Dec 23, 2019 12:10:14 GMT 1
Remember him taking down big factory chimneys like felling a tree
Cut a section out the bottom in the direction he wanted it to fall in and replaced the bricks with wooded props
Then set it on fire and stood well back
Steve
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Post by markhoopy on Dec 23, 2019 18:20:27 GMT 1
I was thinking that it ooked like a fun place to work on my projects and then I saw the coach parties sign and thats put me off. Fred died in 2004 and then a couple of years later a nice chap called Leon Powsney bought the house and set up the Fred Dibnah Heritage Centre, which was basically a tour round the garden, workshop and house, a chance to pay a fiver for a cup of tea and perhaps also buy a piece of Fred memorabilia such as a rusty 1" spanner or big old hammer. Powsney spent a good deal of time snapping up old junk from car boot sales to keep his stock levels healthy, and even resorted to cutting up old scaffold boards, sanding them and selling them as genuine Dibnah cheese boards. The Heritage tours were a success to start with but the business started to dry up so his next scam was to raffle the house, tickets being sold and then a big draw to find the winner and new owner. Sales didn't go too well so it was changed to a cash prize rather than the house, and the winner got £10,000. Nobody ever found out how many tickets had been sold though, so whether the full amount raised went to the lucky winner or not will never be known. The house went on the market and was sold, the new owners completely redecorating and changing it to as it is now. The Heritage Centre is long gone, and Powsney continued to sell 'genuine' Fred Dibnah memorabilia on ebay and may well still be doing so. Allegedly. |
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Post by earthman on Dec 23, 2019 21:02:41 GMT 1
I was thinking that it ooked like a fun place to work on my projects and then I saw the coach parties sign and thats put me off. Fred died in 2004 and then a couple of years later a nice chap called Leon Powsney bought the house and set up the Fred Dibnah Heritage Centre, which was basically a tour round the garden, workshop and house, a chance to pay a fiver for a cup of tea and perhaps also buy a piece of Fred memorabilia such as a rusty 1" spanner or big old hammer. Powsney spent a good deal of time snapping up old junk from car boot sales to keep his stock levels healthy, and even resorted to cutting up old scaffold boards, sanding them and selling them as genuine Dibnah cheese boards. The Heritage tours were a success to start with but the business started to dry up so his next scam was to raffle the house, tickets being sold and then a big draw to find the winner and new owner. Sales didn't go too well so it was changed to a cash prize rather than the house, and the winner got £10,000. Nobody ever found out how many tickets had been sold though, so whether the full amount raised went to the lucky winner or not will never be known. The house went on the market and was sold, the new owners completely redecorating and changing it to as it is now. The Heritage Centre is long gone, and Powsney continued to sell 'genuine' Fred Dibnah memorabilia on ebay and may well still be doing so. Allegedly. Yes, that's what I've heard too, that chap who bought the house turned out to be a bit of a con man shall we say. |
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Post by markhoopy on Dec 23, 2019 21:19:47 GMT 1
And that's a lot of house for the money - cant buy a 1 bed flat for that money around here Dusty That's exactly what i thought Dusty It's a great house for the money but not exactly 'a fatty' if viewed from the end ..  |
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Post by chrisg on Dec 24, 2019 13:44:59 GMT 1
I think it comes with a couple of steam engines in the garage. My eyesight is not as good as it used to be, as I cant see Fred's safety harness, mansafe fall arrest or RAMS for that matter It cant be easy climbing with steel balls. |
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Post by markhoopy on Dec 24, 2019 15:38:16 GMT 1
I think it comes with a couple of steam engines in the garage. Steam engines were removed following a burglary at the house .. |
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Post by chrisg on Jan 3, 2020 15:37:57 GMT 1
I think it comes with a couple of steam engines in the garage. Steam engines were removed following a burglary at the house .. Bar stewards  |
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Post by tacky1 on Jan 3, 2020 18:55:17 GMT 1
Steam engines were removed following a burglary at the house .. Bar stewards Really nice restored Fordson Major, Beauty.. |
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He truly earned every penny that he ever made. I am good with heights but some of the stuff he did was just plain crazy !!
