No I'm not being flippant.*
Here's a link to the Bolton Evening News photos of Freds funeral.
Note how many people turned out to pay their respects to him.
http://www.thisisbolton.co.uk/freddibnahfuneral/RIP Fred
Gone, but not to be forgotten
*That's how he phrased it in one of the BBC programmes in the early 80's
"I've never fell off a big one (chimney), but it'd be half.......... "(laughs & grins)