Thread: Interesting, Odd or Funny Pics II.

Originally Posted by Old Farang

Dibnah's engine sold for £240,000


Dibnah's engine sold for £240,000 - BBC News

A steam engine owned by engineer and celebrity Fred Dibnah has been sold for £240,000 at a Cambridgeshire auction.

Michael Oliver, a Cheshire businessman, made the winning bid and said the engine will be based in the north west of England.


Mr Dibnah, the Bolton steeplejack who shot to fame in a television documentary about his life, restored the machine over a 25-year period.


It was last used to pull his coffin at his 2004 funeral.


The engine was built in 1912 and was thought to have been commissioned by the War Department.


In 2004, Mr Dibnah intended to drive the locomotive to Buckingham Palace to pick up his MBE.

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I'd forgotten about that part, it's in the same vid, as is 'er indoors. Now I'll have to find it.

Pretty sure that's Fred with the cap pouring liquid on in the recent link.

DL

More Fred:

Remembering Fred Dibnah, UK Steeplejack & Land Rover owner.

Looks like someone saw gold with the original Vid.

DL

Originally Posted by Tins

Wasn't Arthur Lowe afraid of heights?

Probably & also Rifles, no doubt.



I remember Arthur Lowe in a Post War Comedy sketch, in fact it is still my strongest memory of the man.

Scene. A mechanical lift somewhere & he was stuck in it with a German bloke.


In conversation with the Blonde, blue eyed German he asks where the German was from. "Baden Baden" was the reply.


"And you?" sez the German.

Not to be outdone, Arthur replies smugly "Twickenham Twickenham".


****ed meself laughing,& now I do it without laughing.

[QUOTE=Homestar;3071523]This guys absolutely flying!

Hence the parachute.

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Originally Posted by rick130

There are some things you just can't un-see. I guess they'll be always on his mind..