One of Fred Dibnahs

[ARW]

This is a win win post If you have seen it before you will not complain If you have not seen it before you will not complain.

's not one I do not remember seeing before.

[Jim K]

top stuff!

would any of that be "allowed" today?

Jim K

[polygonum]

No. Kevin McCloud would be there filing a series of shoots for the next series of GD while some wretched folk, intent on making their home out it, run out of money/hit planning issues/have weather problems/whatever before eventually blowing a fortune on a glass-floored luxury kitchen on a platform jutting out from the 12 and a halfth floor.

[Andy Burns]

Method statement: "I tried one before like, but it didn't go reet, we learned lots of lessons though"

Risk assessment: "The fire brigade might be pissed-off if you don't inform them of a controlled burning"

[Mr Pounder]

I have seen it before. One hell of a man. A true northerner. Not some soft southern pussytwat. The best thing he ever did was to destroy those old mills etc. I have been in a few and can sense the misery of the workers in those places. It takes a lot of feet to wear down stone steps. The old mills that are still trading are run by our Asian masters.

[stuart noble]

Yes, they do seem to be rather good at running things

[Simon Cee]

Kids helping build the fire... and not a hi-vis jacket in sight.

[ARW]

Just admit it. You never liked work did you?

[F]

Then there's something wrong with you. My father was a weaver for 40 years and took huge pride in creating the very best cloth. He and his mates loved their jobs: the mill workers were one big family. 'Misery' wasn't a word I heard any of them use.

A simple statement of fact...

Not all of them. The mill where my father was a weaver (and, later, my daughter worked in the office) is owned and run by white, Anglo-Saxon Yorkshiremen and is doing pretty well.

[John Rumm]

Another nice one where he shows you how to ladder a chimney:

[ARW]

Pride is a good word. .

[Simon Cee]

My father was a weaver for 40

+1 As a kid I'd visit mills with my mum who bought direct from them. My memory is that the womens laughter was louder than the machines. Seemed a very happy place.

[fred]

In article , ARW writes

Thought I saw you cycling around in the background ;-)

Nice one, ta.

[damduck-egg]

A mill caused me some misery as a child.My mother worked in a Lancashire cotton mill as a teenager and like most of the woman learnt to lip read as the machinery was so noisy. I could never mutter anything derogaratory or swear if she could see my face. Got me several clips around the ear that did.

G.harman

[newshound]

Spot on! I had the great pleasure of buying him a pint a few years back. In the flesh, he was *exactly* the same as on film.

[geoff]

Officialdom eh?

My uncle Roger used to help Dibnah with his demolitions in the old days

He wasn't one for rules and regulations either

[Brian Gaff]

Not one I do not remember seeing before? So its one you do remember seeing before then, or is my binary screwed due to me not being awake yet.

Brian

[Huge]

Please don't top post.

[Mr Pounder]

I loved my work.

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[ARW]

And enjoying to help build the fire! Nowadays their mothers would do it for them in case the little darlings got a splinter in their finger.