please empty your brain below
Bolton backwards is notlob

Tom | 24.04.18 - 7:37 a.m. | #

Thanks for visiting so I know it's worthwhile to do so..

Frank F | 24.04.18 - 8:24 a.m. | #

Your view inside Fred Dibnah's shed is delightful. I'd swear that I can see a mini-Fred standing outside.

Petras409 | 24.04.18 - 8:51 a.m. | #

Bah! That's one place off the to-visit list then. I'm sorry to have missed the Dibnah visitor centre.

What sort of calculator did he use?

David @dtl | Homepage | 24.04.18 - 9:37 a.m. | #

Did you know (or care) that Le Mans Crescent in an episode of BBC's Peaky Blinders? I haven't been back to Bolton since the 70s when I was at school there, and it was weird to recognize the spot.

The Civil War massacre is also interesting, partly for Bolton's reputation as "Little Geneva" but also for how the Royalist leader was very deliberately returned to the town for execution.

John Beardsworth | Homepage | 24.04.18 - 9:51 a.m. | #

I'm glad you got a souvenir. I wouldn't mind betting that it's the latest addition to a collection of historic pocket calculators.

Sarah | Homepage | 24.04.18 - 10:03 a.m. | #

Bolton Town Hall was designed by William Hill, who later designed Portsmouth Town Hall, copying Bolton with a few extra flourishes at the corners.

"Did yer like that?"

scrumpy | 24.04.18 - 11:00 a.m. | #

Eeh bah gum lad, your standards are slippin' t'wards tabloid stuff t'day ! Was the 'most adorable place for tinkering' also REVEALED to be heartwarming and stunning as well?

AAaaarrrggghh ! ! ...'with the owner sat outside'.

I do hope these language-mangling aberrations are merely temporary and that the normal high standards of service will be resumed following DG's return to more southerly climes.

dg writes: You used two capital letters at the start of 'AAaaarrrggghh', Gerry.

Fowler | 24.04.18 - 12:02 p.m. | #

I would love to hear the pre-recorded announcements on the trains stopping at
Hall i' th' Wood.

ap | 24.04.18 - 12:12 p.m. | #

The announcement robot mangles it as "Hall eee the Wood" or did last time I heard

Liam Pennington | 24.04.18 - 12:16 p.m. | #

I enjoyed that DG. One of your best articles this year.

milliem | 24.04.18 - 1:34 p.m. | #

Have you been down to Monton? Near Eccles? Bridgwater? The canal is something else.

Uncle Audrey | 24.04.18 - 1:54 p.m. | #

That is sad news about Mr Dibnah's home but it seems fated to have been a visitor attraction with a finite lifespan.
I once stood next to him whilst checking out of a hotel in Brum. He must be the only person I've seen in the flesh who is now a statue.

drD | Homepage | 24.04.18 - 3:21 p.m. | #

This is the just the sort of post that keeps me reading. Somewhere I've never visited (but been through) and indeed never thought of visting. Yet DG has found a lot of interest that makes me want to visit! And what lucky timing to have ended up with Fred Dibnahs' calculator. That's a rather different souvenier.

Jon Combe | 24.04.18 - 7:55 p.m. | #

Fred Dibnah's calculator


diamond geezer | Homepage | 24.04.18 - 8:26 p.m. | #

Thanks for the update on the calculator.

David @dtl | Homepage | 26.04.18 - 9:30 a.m. | #

A bit late to the party with this, but 'Fred Dibnah's Pocket Calculator' really ought to be a Half Man Half Biscuit song, if it isn't already.

Jonathan Wadman | 27.04.18 - 4:43 p.m. | #

"Fred Dibnah's Pocket Calculator" would make an archetypal title for a Half Man Half Biscuit song.

Klepsie | Homepage | 28.04.18 - 6:09 p.m. | #

...as I see someone else got in with first.

Klepsie | Homepage | 28.04.18 - 6:11 p.m. | #











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