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Fred Dibnah, born in Bolton, Lancashire, was an English steeplejack who became a television personality, a cult figure and, latterly, a national institution. Fred was firstly famous for his profession as a steeplejack, though rather than being a traditional repairer of tall buildings he earned a reputation for chimney felling. Bolton, once famous for the soot & grime produced by the towns multitudinous mill chimneys, required many of the towns landmarks to be removed as the cost of maintaining an obsolete chimney became prohibitive. So Fred became an entrepreneur offering to remove these without the need for explosives. The technique was to cut a throat at the bottom of the chimney, prop the brickwork with wooden props & eventually burn the props so that the chimney fell, hopefully in the intended direction. He fixed things too, as his work on Bolton Town Hall & a number of church spires testify. At the age of forty he came to the public eye when the BBC broadcast a short news item about him.

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