Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain

5:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Saturday 25 October
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Chains and Copper

Season 1 Episode 10 of 13

Fred watches a traditional chain-maker at work and visits a copper mine, before discovering how the metal sheets produced would be transformed through a spinning process. He also takes a trip to the Ffestiniog railway, built to transport slate, where he rides on the footplate of a 19th-century train and sees the world's oldest working steam engine

Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain airs on U&Yesterday at 5:30 PM, Saturday 25 October. (Subtitles.)
Topics
News ➝ Current Affairs
Documentary
Fred Dibnah
Presenter
David Hall
Director