That Fred was so annoyed.

Courage of his convictions

@@lewis7515Fred wanted the glory of course. Bit sad really

i didnt known him until the late 1990's@@OlafProt, but I do think he treated his first wife bloody rough. I got the impression when Sue left him she still cared greatly for him. I'm afraid me and Sheila never did see eye to eye, and after his death she said some hurtful and offensive things, which now would be covered by The Equality Act 2010, but this was previous to then. I guess some of my ex's might say I'm just as bad, my ex partners have all got fed up with my love of steam engines and vintage machine and not being very domesticated. I was once asked about my past relationships, and I replied, 'most of my ex girlfriends all complained "You love that bloody engine more than you love me" and you know what, they was dead right! their long gone, but my engine is still here and going strong' lol.

@@OlafProtI wouldnt want to be married to me lol. I'm a country boy, I cant stand being in a big town or city, yet I've made engineering my lifes work, I don't like what happened in the 1980's to industry, but I dont think its fair to lay the blame completely at Maggies government. I blame several things, one of which was signed off by my political hero. In return for help from the Yanks in the early 1940's, churchill was forced to open up commonwealth markets to American trade, which undercut our british goods, and destroyed our export trade with the commonwealth (further compounded by Heath, Thatcher, Major and Blair all turning away from our commonwealth partners). I hold the Labour government of 1945 to 1950 who nationalised everything allowing the civil service and governments to mismanage our industry accountable, I blame the militant, over politicalized and greedy labour unions of the 70's and 80's, whos constant strikes helped to destroy manufacturing, in particular the evil slimy and uncaring Scargill. To me Ted Heath was even worse than the socialist government of the 1940's, signing us up to the EEC, destroying barriers that protected UK manufacturing against cheaper imports, which was made worse by Major, and Blair taking us even deeper into the EU. Since our joining of the EEC it hasn't just been industry that has suffered, its been our home grown agriculture, and until we are prepared to support homegrown goods and pay a premium for imported goods, it will only get worse. I get very depressed when I look at what we have lost, not only industry, but the building on our green and beautiful country side, our once comprehensive rail network, and the loss of rural life that I was able to catch the end of. There was one major difference between me and Fred (besides the fact I'm scared of heights lol), fred saw no beauty in fields and trees. To me they are natural works of art and are glorious beautiful things, that the current administration seams to want to build houses all over to house our artificially inflated population. My late grandad always said I was born 50 years too late. I think he was right, but had I been born 150 years before and had some financial backing, who knows, I might have been mentioned in the same sentence as Fowlers of Leeds, Marshalls of Gainsburough and Burrells of Theford lol

Today, the police would have prevented access to the chimney for Jerry because he hadn't been approved by the necessary risk assessment committee

​​@@TheOriginal_BigMacDid you not hear the part where they called the police on Jerry in the clip? That Fred was angry that Jerry was not trained and it would be him that had to rescue Jerry? He was just as unwelcome climbing the ladder on safety grounds then as he would be today.

​@@whiteshoes3621sounds like Fred was angry because he was stealing his limelight. He didn't think anyone else would climb up there.

You say that like Fred was trained. Fred had no formal training in steeple jacking

Google Dixon Chimney, Carlisle, man dies. They left a guy stuck up there to die whilst they tried to decide how to get him down 'safely'. @@TheOriginal_BigMac

If this was today it would take them a month to carry out a risk assessment.

Don't be so ridiculous, and be careful that you don't break your rose-tinted glasses.

The fella got arrested when he come down .it’s on another of Fred’s stories on KZfaq .

@@SlartiMarvinbartfast shut up mug

​@@paulking2636 nah just wear a ppe and lets Go, sure is complicated but its Not a miracle, in Germany we have some similar animal rescure

"It'll be me who has to get the c*nt down" 😂 Not sure how the BBC let that bit stay in 😂

Yeah, I'm surprised no one ever picked that up.

Good old Fred 😂 ,I did a double take myself.

Thank you I thought I heard him refer to him in a lovely way I thought i was hearing things lol

Proper site lingo, and accurate.

brilliant.😄

​@@bellerophonchallen8861yep😅

Class....😉

Superb comment Sir

And now both in heaven, but I doubt their dancing cheek to cheek lol

C word topped it off for me, good ol bbc not understanding the common man 😂 played on the news 😂

Went back for the replay and he did the English proud.

@@willtricks9432 imagine how many times the BBC would be apologising today…

@@Question3verything No idea I don't watch TV.

he didnt say that lol, he said come down

@@ryle5410 it’ll be me that gets the come down? Don’t think so.. Fred definitely dropped the c**t bomb

Ah Fred’s ego was dented by the animal sanctuary guy that nipped up his ladder in a jiffy stole his thunder 😂

@@bassbytes on the way down the rescue guy froze,Fred had to talk him down,so honour restored.

The cat had no fear either,at least going up.

balls of aluminium and steel!

They needed a crane to lower the balls of both rescuers to the ground.

Fred asking dude “you busy tomorrow” lol

​@@fidelcatsro6948 this is just a ladder, is pretty easy for a pro Climber. You dont need difficult holds.

Jerry was the star of this show

Bet the animal sanctuary guy got fed up of waiting for Fred to come out the pub so thought I'll do it myself

None of them are asking how it got up there? Did it climb up the ladder or use the rope? I'm guessing it went up the ladder rung by rung but couldn't figure out how to climb down again. Or knowing cats, he probably could have climbed down and just wanted attention.

​@@robambrose4199I dunno but cats be dumb 😂

Apparently it Sat originally on the 3rd ladder up (each one of Fred's ladders were 12 foot long). As Fred went up to get the cat, the cat climbed further up to get away from him. Fred tried climbing up the ladder on the other side to throw bits of soot and loose motar to scare the cat back down, but the cat couldn't work out how to go back down and climbed further up. By the time Fred had got back down it had got onto the staging he had started erecting nearby he top. After a quick pint or 6 to discuss the "Modus operandi" they returned with the RSPCA (who refused to go up the chimney) so a cat basket with some cat food on was left attached to the ladder hoping the cat would climb in. Upon return next morning, the can was walking around the very top of the chimney.

i didnt hear it? timestamp? edit never mind, I heard it all right

Can't hear it, timestamp?

@@fredo1070 1:34 "they won't get it down it'll be me who has to get the c**t down"

He definitely says it. Listen carefully. Passed by the BBC News editors! 😂

​@@WonkyDrummerHe absolutely said it and they missed it. I imagine they scratched their heads the entire time he spoke wondering what he was saying.

He says "come down".

"gettim t'come down". Definite "m" sound.

@@austin2842 As a fellow Boltonian and having been around this accent and these people my whole life I can assure you he said “c**t”

@@terri6854 As a fellow Boltonian and having been around this accent and these people my whole life I can assure you he said “c**t”

@Eddie-Spaghetti I'm from the immediate area as well, and I think otherwise. My family has been in the area for generations, and I have relatives with older and thicker dialects than Fred. I understand what he's saying without even stopping to think about it.

What is faitr.

Yes lol😁 he did say c*#t 👍🇬🇧

He didn't. He said, in a Bolton accent "It'll be me'll af ta get 'im come down".

@@carlwilson1772 i agree you are right😁 Fred was a legend very brave bloke 👍🇬🇧

yes he did@@carlwilson1772

t’comt down

So true😄!!

Simpler times.

You mean the owners who use they cads and dogs for clicks or the Fake animal rescue here on KZfaq when animals got bad hurt just for likes

cats back then looked tough and healthier too without the processed gmo nonsense we eat today!

@@fidelcatsro6948 "Tough" as in chewed ears, scarred faces, etc. ? I still see quite a bit of that around..

I call bollocks on your story. That sounds like Fred trying to save face after he couldn’t be arsed to get the cat himself

"gettim t'come down". Definite "m" sound.

@@andywatts8654 it's very true, and you can see in the film that Fred had to go up to the cat basket because "jerry" can't move. The story has been well documented in several places. As soon as Jerry was back on the ground, the police arrested him before the news people could interview him. As for Fred couldn't be arsed, he had already been up there to try and get the cat down and it kept going further away from him. These events are also well documented be the BBC. Personally I'd had got people with blankets around the chimney and kicked it off and prayed it was court in one of the blankets.

​@@James_Rivettand kicked it off😂 funny guy

@@leonardhpls6 you clearly never saw Fred knocking a chimney down brick by brick!

Cats can climb down ladders but not at that height. Mine could easily climb down our loft ladder that was about eight feet high.

Seeyo at the Milkplus bar.

This is back in the days when the BBC WAS in touch with working class people.

He Says "to come down" it's the cig in his mouth mixed with his accent lol

How times have changed.

i suspect the constant smoking aged him a lot. But some people always had older faces, we was watching the Titfield thunderbolt on sunday, and it was commented that Sid james was years older than his love interest Joan played by Gabrielle Brune. In fact Brune was almost a year older than Sid, who was 39 years old when the film was being filmed despite looking about 60.

Fred probably looked like that when he popped out of his mothers womb.

😆@@cbrboy76

@@cbrboy76 when you saw the man clean and in a suite, as he did for his after dinner speaches, he just didn't look like Fred.

lack of cruciferous vegetables especially with non filter cigarette smoking..

For a second I read winton and thought dale ha

yes, but he must have also been one of the few people who said "bloody" as frequently as that and got away with it. The BBC were very tight lipped when you thing about it back then. Dave Allen got the sack for the F bomb that was frequently on channel 4 at the time, and that was several years later.

C for CAT!

He said come down!

he probably didn't say the actual word, up here we shorten 'couldn't' to something that sounds similar, eg, "I c..t get out of bed this morning"

I guarantee he'd already had one when it started

or 3 or 5 @@Tmuk2 lol

He went for a Pint while the debacle was going on. That’s why they had to get a decent bloke to rescue the cat

​@andywatts8654 not that decent, Fred had to go up and rescue both the jerry and the cat, when the silly man got scared and froze. Fred had to coach him all the way down. The story is well counted by verious publications

naaaah he bought a pack of 100mm Marlboros non filter King size

They can’t understand owt that doesn’t sound like it’s got a plumb in its mouth

he probably didn't say the actual word, up here we shorten 'couldn't' to something that sounds similar, eg, "I c..t get out of bed this morning"

But what a blessing piece and quite.

Only until you let it go and gravity takes over.

And it was a tom getting rescued by a Jerry, amazing 😂

This is some mews.

he was arrested back then. According to Fred's version of the story, the moment his feet touched the ground, the police whisked him away before the press could interview him.

He did! Legend.

He says “It’ll be me who has to get him come down”. I don’t think it’s the BBC who doesn’t understand his accent or syntax.

Good old Fred! Proper old school.

Nah, that's just the Bolton accent.

​​@@user-gi5nh6ng7gyou're wrong, it's not 'get him't come down' its ' get'tht cnt down'

Literally because it's a clip of 2 newsreaders from the past...smh

So famous, British rock trio The Police even wrote a song about her! ‘Sue Lawley’. 😉

Or the nagging and mithering he had to put up with off women!

@@stan-ut5gj that does age you I’ve had my fair share of experiences 😂

@@fortyfour1654 I don’t even have my face in my pfp there’s no way you could tell ahaha

or the alcohol that comes with beer and whisky

And the drink