| When his first wife walked out on him, she accused the eccentric, chimney-toppling steeplejack of living in the last century. |
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| His grandmother was a widow whose steeplejack husband had died in a tragic accident, and who subsequently lost two of her four sons in the war. |
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| They have agreed that the glass display case in Oxford Street can be extended so a statue of the TV steeplejack can be put inside. |
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| Dibnah became famous in 1978 after a projected 20-minute film about the life of a steeplejack was spun out for 19 weeks. |
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| Archibald, Gilchrist and Muir had an information storage and retrieval system which required the services of a suicidal steeplejack. |
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| Mary Ann Quinn, now 84, a steeplejack and surfer, regularly inspected the first Sutro Tower at night, when everything was off-air. |
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| At one point, a police officer moonlighting as a steeplejack fell and injured his spine when the flagpole he had been hired to fix cracked. |
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| Celebrity steeplejack Fred Dibnah was supposed to end his days of felling factory chimneys with the demolition of the 175-ft Park Mill chimney in Royton yesterday. |
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| The celebrity steeplejack started building the pithead system with a 70 ft mineshaft to pay tribute to Bolton's history, but got into trouble after neighbours complained. |
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| Originally a steeplejack, cloth-capped Fred became an unlikely celebrity and has been the star of more than 20 documentaries uncovering Britain's industrial heritage. |
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| The celebrity steeplejack started building a fully-working Victorian mineshaft behind his house in Radcliffe Road, Bolton, without asking permission. |
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| Visitors to the steam and vintage fair will be asked to make a donation to the appeal to provide a lasting memorial to the Bolton steeplejack who died of cancer last November. |
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| A DAREDEVIL steeplejack clambers to the summit of the 555ft Washington Monument yesterday to inspect damage caused by last month's earthquake. |
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| He gradually picked up the skills of a steeplejack and used a Bosun's chair to suspend himself from a rope to carry out work. |
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| The firm specialises in historic and high level maintenance and restoration, as well as lightning protection and industrial steeplejack services. |
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| It remains to be seen how the town will celebrate Kenny's latest triumphs, though if Fred Dibnah, the Boltonian steeplejack, can have a statue then surely Kenny warrants some sort of memorial. |
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| By raising your eyes you see steeplejack painters made of wax perched on a beam, the replicas of the painters who work on the Tower every seven years. |
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| Other notable people of the town include Robert Cadman, a performer and steeplejack, who is buried in the town, at St Mary's Church. |
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| Left school at 15 and supported himself via a series of odd jobs, including window cleaner, truck driver, steeplejack and even circus performer. |
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| But that's what steeplejack Ian Millington did in order to ensure Y Ddraig Goch flies once more at Newport's Celtic Manor Resort. |
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| For many years, he worked along with his father as a steeplejack for Dobeck Painting Company. |
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| Steeplejack Fred Dibnah died yesterday aged 66 after losing his battle with cancer. |
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