Fred Dibnah's Engineering Greatness: Britain's Industrial Legacy

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Fred Dibnah explores Britain’s industrial heritage, tracing the evolution of key industries like textiles, iron and steel, mining, railways, and shipbuilding.
Through nostalgic tours and insightful commentary, he reveals the engineering marvels and human ingenuity that shaped the Industrial Revolution.

00:00:00 – Episode 1: Wind, Water and Steam & Mills and Factories
Watch as Fred takes you to key factories and structures that spearheaded the industrial revolution and shows us how the machines actually worked. Fred takes a nostalgic tour of the country giving his own inimitable view on the Industrial Revolution.
The series continues as Fred Dibnah traces the development of Britain’s textile industry from the picturesque Scottish countryside of New Lanark to the urban mill town of Burnley.

00:56:03 – Episode 2: Iron and Steel & Mining 
Fred Dibnah celebrates our nation’s rich industrial heritage, beginning with a look at the development of the iron and steel industries at Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire. Fred Dibnah continues his series on Britain’s industrial heritage with a look at mining.

01:51:13 – Episode 3: Railways & Ships and Ship Engineering
Fred recollects his early excitement as steam locomotives roared past his bedroom window. In this programme he traces the development of the railways from the first steam locomotive to the world record-breaking Mallard. The series continues as Fred takes a look at the great age of shipbuilding and examines the skills of the engineers who turned Britain into a great manufacturing nation.

Director : David Hall

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33 thoughts on “Fred Dibnah's Engineering Greatness: Britain's Industrial Legacy”

  1. Greetings from Denmark

    What a good narrator who knows what he is talking about, and so everyone can join in and be interested.

    Here in Denmark, we are also very interested in English history, and love England and the English people a lot.

    And then we really like the English humor.

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  8. It's sad how much of our country has been sadly lost and destroyed forever.
    Everyday I think that one day my old school skills will be sadly lost.
    This country has definitely been destroyed by then in suits with their puffy hands, not forgetting the the old cow Thatcher

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  10. I have been following Fred for nearly 50 years, I came from up there but now live in Suffolk. He, on his own opened the eyes of the nation to our heritage. The salt of the earth, a fine e replaceable man, this country will miss him a lot. Rest in peace Fred, see you soon

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  15. I'm glad fred existed when he did, he would absolutely detest the country we have become. Everything that made Britain great is gone, sold off to foreign lands. Men like Fred don't exist today.

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  18. I like the snow mobile trail better, the idea of beig able to go along collect fre fuel and clean up tree's along the way would have been awesome! You would have to have sites to stop at a mile ahead of time

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  23. There's no reason you can't fractionally distill coal. Get it back to its constituent components. Use all the stuff that used to be so polluting. It was just easier with oil so the technology developed that way. Now there's so much money, vested interest and naked corruption its hard to see a way back. If the nuclear industry hadn't sabotged wave power. We'd have cheap power.😮

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  24. England's manufacturing has been destroyed by slimy politicians.
    Indeed all of England has been destroyed by treacherous politicians hell bent on destroying England & none more so than tge back stabbing & vile liars of the labour party scum who want England totally destroyed.

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