I've been a Fred Dibnah fan since about 7 or 8 years ago when I first heard his named mentioned by a friend from the UK. I felt like I was late arriving to the party even then, since he was apparently a big deal on British television in the 1990s and early 2000s, hosting multiple programs on industrial history and steam power, and had actually been dead since 2004.
Dibnah was famously from Bolton (near Manchester), a town once famous for its cotton mills, and he spoke with a broad Lancashire accent that was a big part of his persona as a colorful working-class everyman from industrial north of England.
For those not familiar with Dibnah, a good place to start would be the episode of "Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam" on "the transport revolution", i.e. trains:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKpEk9yi6QQ