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Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain

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Documentary series in which Fred Dibnah travels around Britain in his restored traction engine in search of engineering skills and technology from a bygone age.

Mar 8, 20051 seasons12 episodesReturning SeriesEN

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Fred Dibnah

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Seasons

Season 1

12 episodes

Premiered Mar 8, 2005

Episodes

1–6 of 12

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Ep 1

The Passion of a Lifetime

Mar 8, 2005

The late Fred Dibnah searches for technology from a bygone age. In this first episode, he demolishes his last ever chimney at a textile mill near Oldham.

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Ep 2

Collecting the Coal

Mar 15, 2005

Fred visits an open cast mine near Wigan to get coal to power his engine, then goes to Astley Green Mining Museum in Lancashire.

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Ep 3

The Source of Iron

Mar 22, 2005

Fred reaches Cumbria where iron ore was once mined on a large scale, and enjoys the Lake District on a friend's steam boat. It's then on to the Florence Mine.

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Ep 4

Castings

Mar 29, 2005

Fred and his steersman Alf travel up to Scotland, where they marvel at the ingenuity of the Falkirk Wheel and visit one of the region's few surviving iron works.

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Ep 5

Water and Boilers

Apr 5, 2005

Fred Dibnah searches Britain for technology from a bygone age, visiting Ryhope pumping station in Sunderland and the Israel Newton boiler works in Bradford.

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Ep 6