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Part of my childhood, and will be remembered fondly.
highlandsflyer":gc7qha5w said:Part of my childhood, and will be remembered fondly.
highlandsflyer":nr9szsvt said:Cool story. Everyone I know who ever met him said he was right down to earth.
Seems like Fred Dibnah, John Noakes and Johnny Morris were of a time.
A better time.
Fred Dibnah's another great highlight from the days of rushing home from school downhill through woods and across a muddy cowfield to watch tv. Looking back, I think we were really lucky to grow up in such a rich, eventful, risk-taking and characterful era. There aren't many people today I can think of who compare to John or Fred – Guy Martin is possibly the closest embodiment of them.After shinning up one ladder, Noakes swung himself dauntlessly on to another, tilted 45 degrees from the vertical. Noakes swung himself dauntlessly on to another, tilted 45 degrees from the vertical. “At this level,” said Noakes in a voiceover, “the plinth on which Nelson stands overhangs the column. I found myself literally hanging on from the ladder with nothing at all beneath me.” Nothing, that is, but a 52-metre drop to the slabs of Trafalgar Square. Truly, they don’t make television presenters like Noakes any more. “It’s a long way up, really,” he said as he stood on the plinth.