The owner of Fred Dibnah’s landmark Bolton home is struggling to sell the property after a failed Spot the Ball competition left him thousands of pounds out of pocket.
Dibnah bought the Grade lI-listed building in Radcliffe Road in the sixties, and turned it into a steam-powered workshop complete with a 50ft-tall chimney stack, and a working mineshaft.
Built in 1851, the property’s huge back yard and its collection of oil-stained machinery featured in many of Dibnah’s TV documentaries celebrating Britain's industrial heritage, reports the Manchester Evening News.
It remains a shrine to the famous steeplejack more than 15 years after his death in 2004. Despite plenty of interest from fans over the years the current owner, Leon Powsney, has
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