Drop a container-load at a site where the side-hustle is restoring our steam heritage and during a tour of the workshop ~ as a high-priest of maritime dronery ~ get to enter the Holy of Holies.
Here amidst the incense of smouldering anthracite and oils is no less than that steam-roller restored to its former glory by the inestimable man himself, Bolton's finest, and hands together if you would now ladies and gentlemen for Fred Dibnah?
Fred's fame abroad extends to fans like the esteemed Rahmi Koc, himself founder of a business empire and the owner and patron of a transport museum in old Istanbul.
So with the atmosphere hushed, only the rhythmic knocking of a milling-machine breaking the quietude, I doff my own flat-cap in silent homage to the master.
