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His idea of a holiday was to knock a chimney down in Blackpool in exchange for a new boiler while his family went to the beach.


Yeah - that didn't work out too well for him. From his Telegraph obituary [1]:

"Dibnah did not much care for holidays and never wanted to go abroad. Alison, stoic for years, decided that there was more to life than climbing chimneys. She took their children on a package holiday to Greece, and on her return moved out with them."

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1476086/Fred-Dibn...




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