Fred Dibnah travels around Britain in his restored traction engine in search of engineering skills and technology from a bygone age. Fred Dibnah travels around Britain in style, bringing the great ...

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 ...

Frederick "Fred" Dibnah MBE (28 April 1938 – 6 November 2004), born in Bolton, was an English steeplejack and eccentric with a keen interest in mechanical engineering who became a cult television ...

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For almost 50 years Captain David McNamee has channelled his interest in steam engines to helping his local community in the ...

Bundle of energy Fred Dibnah is not your bog standard television presenter. The lover of steam engines and Guinness is back on our screens and in lesser hands a series of this nature could have been ...