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It's going.

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Go away!

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HE SOUNDS HOOTER

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Done for!

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Do you like that?

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WHISTLE SOUNDS

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Fred Dibnah, the Bolton steeplejack,
spent thousands of hours
in doing up his steam-engine,

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to the detriment of other aspects
of his life.

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Lots of people I've got to know
through the chimneys say I spend
too much time with my steam-engine.

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They tell me
I should get on with their jobs!
Which is true in some ways!

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I have neglected my business
and everything really for the sake
of this ten ton of iron.

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So it was bad news for family
and customers

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when, in 1980, Fred was spotted
building an extension
to his engine shed.

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Their worst fears were realised.

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It came to light that
he had his eye on the rusted wreck
of another steam-engine.

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Have you given it any thought?

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Me last offer, mmm? Em...

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It's difficult talking
about the money side
with someone you know. Yeah.

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We had this trouble before.

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Well, like, er, £2,000 sort of...
you know... Am I getting
any nearer? Yeah, you are, Fred.

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I was thinking
of two and a half myself.
Ah! I'll give you 2,300 for it.

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We're getting rather nearer now.

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We're getting nearer. Yeah, I think
we could begin to think about that.

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I think I'll have it, then. Give us
a week or two to sort the money out.

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It's a long time since we crashed
into each other. A few years!
Two steamrollers.

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Could've been catastrophic, that.
We sort of bounced off each other!
A terrible bang, wasn't it?

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We shouldn't have had as much pop
as we'd had!

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Your dad's new engine.
Coming in the shed.

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He'll make it all nice for us.

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It's beautiful.

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Have you almost done now?

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Want another roller? Eh?
Want another roller?

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No, not really. I think we can do
t'rest with t'jack now.

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I think it's time
we went for a pint, actually.

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There's steam coming off me.

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How are we going to manage paying
for all the bits and pieces?

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We managed before with that,
didn't we? No more holidays.
We never had any!

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Fred geared down his steamroller
to drive the machinery he'd use
to make parts for the tractor.

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The roller was 14 years' work. Fred
reckoned - optimistically - that
he'd do this job in less than four.

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I can work in this shed sometimes
till one o'clock in the morning.

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I contain my hammering
down to nine o'clock.
I don't do any heavy blows.

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I respect the neighbours!

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Donald says you can hear
this hammer in his parlour
which he says is 200 yards away.

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They're only bloody 20 yards
away, so...

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Mind you, their house
is up for sale at present.

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But now came a development
no-one then saw the significance of.

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The first of Fred's films
had been shown on BBC TV.

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Fan mail began arriving.

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There's one here - somebody knows
where there's a steam-engine.

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Belongs to a blacksmith who died.

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Then it says - quite funny, this...
it says,

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"His wife, who I feel was not
sympathetic to his aspirations,

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"I should imagine would be
delighted to be rid of it."

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We've got some here -
cartoons, you know.

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They're even doing drawings.

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"It's no use - you'll have to get
an ironing board, love."

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Some of the correspondents spoke
of the danger of Fred's job and
asked how the family dealt with it.

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When Jane was first born, he wanted
me to walk to all the chimneys
he was working at.

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I pushed her round to the first
chimney. I was frightened to death.

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I came home and didn't go
to another one for a long time.

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You can't sit at home thinking,
"What's going to happen today?"

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You've to just put it
to the back of your mind.

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He's safer up there
than he is on the ground sometimes.

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I just believe in God.

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I think if you behave well and
you're good, you're looked after.

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If you worry all the time about it,
you will fast become
a bloody nervous wreck.

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I just don't think about it.

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The only time when the wind gets up
a bit is when you're going to do
something particularly hazardous,

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not just the everyday
run-of-the-mill steeplejacking.

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Climbing ladders and dancing on
the tops of chimneys is pretty safe.

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You've always got a feeling
in the back of your mind that if
you put one foot wrong you're dead.

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It's half a day out
with the undertaker.

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On a lighter note,
others who wrote were curious
about how this partnership began,

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and why they had eloped
to Gretna Green.

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It transpired that from his vantage
points, Fred had long kept Alison
under observation.

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He used to tell me
when I went to work or school
and the clothes I wore.

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I thought you were nice.
Never thought I'd marry you,
you know, but, sort of...

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She actually came to the pub.
I were propping the bar up.

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I'd had some Dutch courage and
asked her out. "What are you doing
tomorrow?" That were it, yeah.

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She said nothing. "I'll meet you
at the top of t'street."
That's how it started.

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We had a lot of mickey took out of
us cos I'm, like, ten years older
than Alison. It went on and on.

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Their lot wanted so many
at the wedding and so did our lot.

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So one night,
we'd had a pint or two,

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and we decided to go and stay
with a friend in Kirkcudbrightshire.

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But when we arrived there,
this woman said, "But he isn't here
no more. He's gone back to Bolton."

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There were only one bus a day
up this bloody mountain, you know.

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So we've got to then stay there -
or they invited us to stay there.

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And I slept with the farmer
in his bed and he had a big nightie
and one of them hats with a bobble,

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like Rip Van Winkle and
Alison slept in a big wooden cot...
didn't you?

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And I tried my best to talk to the
old farmer about traction engines
but he weren't that well up on them,

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but he knew
the whereabouts of one or two.

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But the next day, what could we do?
We couldn't lose face and come home.

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So we decided
that we would go to Gretna Green.

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Alison, being a bit religious,
decided that we'd have a do
at the church.

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We went to see the vicar
but he weren't too keen,
he didn't like runaways.

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Sort of Alison did the talking
and I just stood in the background.
He weren't keen.

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And over his mantelpiece,
he had a bloody magnificent picture
of the Forth Bridge.

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I started admiring this picture and
his sort of attitude slowly changed.

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And he condescended to do the job.
The great day come some weeks later.

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When we turned up and knocked
on the door, he were nowhere about.

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Then we heard this shuffling and he
appears at the door in his pyjamas,

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and he said, "Och, aye,
I'd forgotten about you. Hang on."

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He reappeared with his cassock on
and his bloody pyjamas sticking out.

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So we got married with a vicar who
wore pyjamas while he did the job.

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MUSIC: "The Wedding March"
by Mendelssohn

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We've never looked back since.

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WHISTLE SOUNDS

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By now, Fred and Alison were
beginning to discover a downside
to being in the public eye,

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which, in their time together,
they never quite managed to accept.

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Since we made our epic documentary,
everybody wants to know about
bloody steeplejacks and chimneys.

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I don't mind doing things for
Dr Barnardo's and other good causes,

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but just lately I've had
so many requests to these things

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that it's interfering with me work
and me new steam-engine.

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I've not been able to touch it
for many a week.

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WHISTLE SOUNDS

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Where is it? It's there.

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Good morning. Nice to see you again.
Thanks for coming.

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You got the scissors? Yes, I have.

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Thank you on behalf of Dr Barnardo's.
I'll give you a badge.

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Have you got the champagne? Yes.

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You're now a Barnardo helper.

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If you'd like to step this way,
the ribbon awaits.

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Morning.

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Never done
anything like this before.

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Always a first time.
Yeah.

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I now pronounce this venture
duly going.

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I'll turn the sign around.
That's right. Thank you.

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You can have your scissors back.

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CHEERING
Put your finger over it quick!

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Thank you.

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Good health.

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Traction engines are good things -
they don't answer back.

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I can hit 'em with the hammer,
you see.

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And they don't say nowt.

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How much time do you spend
on your traction engine? Oh...

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He'll have his breakfast with it,
his dinner with it, his tea with it.
Then go to bed? Yeah!

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I could be out there
all day and night.

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Two in the morning, hammering away.

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Very understanding neighbours.
Very understanding wife as well!

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This celebrity business
is all very well

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if you could just escape from it
every now and again.

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My life at present now...

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Whereas two or three years ago,
I could go in my shed
in the back garden

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and start work on my steam-engine

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and know full well there'd be no
phone calls or anyone to mither me,

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Now it ain't like that.

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I just get outside
and Alison's at the door,

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"Phone for you." So I've got to
traipse across, answer the phone
about some after-dinner speech.

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I've had very little money
out of it, I've made very little.

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In one instance, I got two sackfuls
of rivets for my new boiler

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as payment for an after-dinner
speech at a Rotarians do, you see.

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The odd bottle of wine,
the odd £20 here,
the odd £40 there, sort of style.

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I'm looking at that business in
that I'd be better off without it.

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I'd be better of concentrating
on my backyard operations.

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With the approach of summer,
another obstacle arose for Fred.

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Alison wanted a holiday -
their first since their honeymoon.

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Now with the eldest of their three
children in her teens, Alison
felt it was time for a vacation.

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So Fred found himself at Blackpool
and under orders
not be mulish about it.

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Are you going paddling?

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Caroline, are you going paddling?

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How about you going to watch her?
There's no chance of me going in.

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Roll your pant legs up. No!

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Roll your pant legs up.

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My feet are black.

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Dad, d'you want to play football?
Where can you kick it round here?

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It'll be all right in front here.
Catchers!

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Round here.
Go on, Dad, play catchers.

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Go on.
Go and play with them for a bit.

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'Really I get most of my pleasure
out of looking.

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'It's nice to see the kids
all happy.

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'But when I were little,
I never liked going away.

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'I used to have tantrums.

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'I'd be thrown on the coach
for Blackpool which I never liked.

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'Maybe that's why I don't like it
now. The damage were done early!'

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Aw, Caroline's sand pies!

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Now, are you having a run
or are you walking?

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..Thank you, sir. ..Let's have
a look at you. Come here.

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You go on Dinah,
the little one on Peggy-Carol.

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Are you ready? Hold tight.
Hold them bars, girls. Go on!

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That's a very energetic job -
chasing them bloody things
up and down all day!

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How about the big wheel?

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No! I'm not going up that!

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Hang on! W-Whoa!

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Oh, Daddy!

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It's t'best thing
I've seen since I came to Blackpool.

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They've got a winch like our one.
Yeah.

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There's good stuff up there.
Everything's real stuff, like.

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That bloody waterwheel's working.

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They must've been round every
scrapyard in Blackpool to get that.

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Oh, my! Fancy a go on that? No!
Yeah...! No!

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Eh? No.

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It only lasts for 12 minutes.

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Oh, look at it!

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I wanna go on the trampoline!

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This sea air is making me tired.

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Come on!

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All these jolly holiday-makers
in the pouring rain!

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Can't see many sunbathers
or paddlers!

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There's people on donkeys.
Very brave!

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The donkeys are out all day long.

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Can you see the big wheel?

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We went up the big dipper
last night. We can go again tonight.

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The sea's coming in,
whipping all the sand up.

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You might be able
to make nice pies afterwards.

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I wouldn't go in
off the end of that pier!

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There it is.
Let's get the ladders up.

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THUNDER ROLLS

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HAMMERING

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Come on, love. Pull on this rope.

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Right. I'm getting wet.

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THUNDER ROLLS

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Ready? Go on, pull!

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Right, just hold it there a minute.

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It'll only take another two ladders,
won't it? One.

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Just another one on top of here.

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It'll not take so long this, love,
now. Oh, good. Ten minutes.

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Right, leave go. All right? Yeah.

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'One day, like,
we got this phone call.

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'This chap says, "I've a chimney
I want knocked down." I said,
"Where?" He said, "Blackpool."

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'I thought, "Well...
It's too far from Bolton."

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'He rang again and mentioned that
he were the owner of a boilerworks,
a pressure vessel company.

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'So I thought,
"Oh, just the man that we need."

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'Because we needed a new front
tube plate for the new engine.

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'So we popped over
and showed him the drawing,

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'and he said, "I'll make you that
if you'll knock my chimney down."

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'So we ended up here
on our holidays!'

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THUNDER ROLLS

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What are you doing?
Just get hold of the rope, love.

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I'm not tall enough.
Well... Move there again.

230
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Don't worry about that.
Just take the rope and pull.

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Take hold,

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cos all the weight of the ladder's
gonna come on you. Right, with you.

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Right, pull.

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Higher?

235
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A long way to go yet.

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'Alison seized on the idea, you see,
of coming to Blackpool.

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'I don't suppose she bargained
on this kind of holiday - pulling
ladders up a chimney in the rain.

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'She's pretty good at it. She has
a bit of trouble tying the knots,

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'but one day, some years ago, like,
she actually helped me
to unladder a 200-footer, you know.

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'She volunteered for it! You have
to take the rough with the smooth!

241
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'And today's bloody rough!

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'This is the price she has to pay
for coming to Blackpool
on holiday.'

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BABY SHOUTS

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I'm quite happy to do this.
It keeps me off the sand,
sort of thing!

245
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I enjoy it other than sitting
on the bloody sand watching
the tide go in and out all day,

246
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getting sunburnt.

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Yesterday, the wife were a bit
subdued about Monday, like,

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when it rained all day
and we all got wet.

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Soaked through to her knickers!

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HE CHORTLES
Which is true.

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ORGAN PLAYS
"I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside"

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Ah, this is it, is it?

253
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This is it, yeah.

254
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:56,280
You've got the right thickness.
Did the other one blow up? No.

255
00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:03,680
70 years of rain running down the
funnel. You got your work out of it.
Not me. Someone else did, though.

256
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:12,320
They just left it out in the rain.
The boiler inspector wouldn't
wear it. You need a new one.

257
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:19,600
Have you seen any numbers
on the plate? He promised me
a test certificate with a number.

258
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,920
It might be on the edge.
I haven't seen it yet.

259
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:31,760
I suppose he'll give me a ticket
for it. It needs a certificate
because it's a pressure vessel.

260
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I better go and knock a few more
bricks off t'chimney. See you.

261
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,680
They'll make you a decent job anyway.
OK, See you. See you.

262
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:54,680
They've made a splendid job of it,
the holes are all right

263
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and it's the right thickness. The
last one we had made was too thin.

264
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They've at least got the right lump
of iron for the job.

265
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I'm very pleased with the deal.
I ended up with quite a few bobs'
worth of engineering for nothing,

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only knocking this chimney down.

267
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:30,920
It's turned out very nice
for all of us really. They're happy
down there on the beach,

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spending me money
and making sand castles and
I'm happy getting summat for nowt.

269
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They must be having a good time
because at night they're all flaked
out - into bed and unconscious!

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So really it's worked out very well
all round.

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MUSIC: "Carnival Of Venice"
by Briccaldi

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Subtitles by Martin Maguire
BBC Scotland 1996