| He saw that the steeplejack had now reached the point where his work was waiting for him, work that required nerve and courage. |
| 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. |
| When his first wife walked out on him, she accused the eccentric, chimney-toppling steeplejack of living in the last century. |
| 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. |
| Blixie Bimber liked him because he was a steeplejack, a little, but more because he was a whistler. |
| The celebrity steeplejack started building a fully-working Victorian mineshaft behind his house in Radcliffe Road, Bolton, without asking permission. |
