Won a bafta for this scene alone

so funny, that an 'gizza kiss luv'

What a geezer imagine if he was no self harm before that. He loves a bit of sacred xx

Solid facts spoken there @graeme

Inflation baby. Probably just a couple of years after this would have been the days of double digit Inflation of the late 70's and early 80's where prices were doubling every couple of years. Dad always brags that a jug of beer cost him 40c and we're lucky if we can find one for $40 now days.

@@kaymish6178 The human population is too busy consuming itself - nowadays, to save itself. Times were better 30 years ago, make no mistake about it.

The techniques goes back before the Victorians. It was an ancient technique of militery seige warfare (Sapping a wall / fortification) :) fyi - Steeplejacking took a lot from ship rigging. And many Steeplejacks were Navy men.

You can glory in the spectacle of something while still lamenting it's demise. Fred has said many times how much he hates seeing these monuments to industry go. This is why he used the methods he did, they weren't simply blown up by somebody that didn't care.

You need balls to be a steeplejack like Fred used to do it, so women couldn’t do it?! Mind you these days women could get some knackers attached on the nhs.

What a remarkably strange comment.

@@awtistiaeth4699 tis a joke about hoping the particular newspapers were of a particular brand, written in the accent he spoke in.

Burn easy

Burn hot quickly to make sure the props burn away and, I would imagine, cause the iron-bands in the chimney to expand and fire it apart. I would imagine that they could also be obtained cheaply (free perhaps).

Intensify the heat

@@ChrisB-so1eh tyres burn for a long time…timber on its own would burn away too quickly leaving the props intact…you don’t want to have to be going up to it at that stage to have to add more fuel…by then the props would be burn’t half way through…by using tyres because they burn 6x longer than timber that ensures that the props get burnt all the way through…burning tyres is bad for the air of course it is…but this is the end of the 70’s coming into the 80’s…nobody was concerned about those things like they are today…that was the mindset back then…besides Maggie Thatcher had just sacked all the coal miners and everyone was out of work and everyone was anti government and the general mood was just as poison as those burning tyres

Err... nope, the planet is still here.

i understood exactly what you said......and im fro the Black Country!!!!

If that were now, you'd have a lad sucking on a vape watching a lad in a hi Viz watching another lad in a high Viz watching another lad doing fuck all

I prefer it now when men are women.

My history teacher in Canada used to say - once the society decides to outsource hard and dirty work to outside it's days are numbered. I believe we were studying fall of Roman empire and role of barbarians.