18th Century Restoration (Before and After) Restoration Man | Full Documentary | Reel Truth History

over the last few years I've been looking down the country champion an ambitious restoration projects and the brave heroes who've taken them all we are saving it you know it will be house it will last meal come another forages this series I'm going back to visit long after the dust to settle welcome to a different world I want to find out how these spaces work as homes to live in and it's working really nicely with your bug Elisabeth restoration is one of the biggest challenges out too much to lose but if you get it right the results can be life-changing we just didn't want to live in a normal Terrace house again oh my [Music] blood sweat tears I've seen it all but what I want to know is when they all moved in is the dream still alive [Music] [Music] today I'm gone back to the bath lodge in Ormskirk to catch up with the extraordinary restoration story of Mark Horton and his wife Sheila the restoration project took mark two years to complete and it nearly cost him everything but just pays all weekend but it's stressful many things are stressful you know halfway into the project he had a massive heart attack within a couple of days I would've been dead it's not two ways about it but he refused to be defeated and bowed on to achieve his ambition of creating his dream home God look at that you've gone for it this time I uncovered more fascinating history surrounding buildings like the bath lodge would there have been a bath in our building dipping and the could well of me and we discover what life was like in the building 150 years ago that's a real finding but what I really want to know is has mark slowed down enough to enjoy his dream home palms Kurt lancashire this is where I first met Mark and his wife Sheena in August 2008 they've been bowled over by the Gothic Revival charm at this 18th century grid to star Lister folly which they bought for two hundred ninety thousand pounds they dreamed of converting it into a large family home first so about 18 months ago with this Gothic arches you could just see bits from behind the green vine it just looked really sort of like an old spooky castle thing she came down to stay with me and she fell for it straight away it was a pile of bricks quite literally I can't really see how it can be a house it's a listed building and it's torn to bits so it's in the fields done well took some water there's no let's just you know gasps I think he can finally build as a home where we may be able to unpack our stock yeah this project isn't the first Marx taken order he's got an eye for property and the family have never stayed in one house for long he runs his own successful building company so he's well-qualified to tackle a restoration they specialize in hospital refurbishment at office of residential interiors Sheena is a housewife and looks after their three daughters Danielle who's 21 and just finished University Liberty who's 15 and doing her GCSEs and five-year-old rebuild haven't sold their last home here at this house in Southport where I can I'm going to help advise and support them on their restoration journey this location for me is just so beautiful I mean it's a bit of a grey miserable English summer day which is a shame but the landscape is so typically English you've got these stunning cornfields you've actually got a railway line just run over the back bear in the distance lot of church over there absolutely beautiful but what's bizarre because as we're approaching this building there's no broad so I'm having to walk through the cornfields to get there that's fantastic absolutely stunning [Music] hi how you doing okay hello you is this movie it's gonna be home soon well maybe not soon I shouldn't say I shouldn't put the pressure on too much next week what did you think when you found out that before this marks always wanted to build his own house to live in even though he's always done sort of restoration work nothing to this extent so in a way this is his dream nothing else was making it exciting that's cool yeah that he's gonna actually build some it that we're gonna live in I'll make him an offer when he's finished he'll move on to the next range we never know where we're gonna be I'm keen to know more about this building's history the centric looking buildings like the bath lodge unknown as follies they were a huge fashion during the 18th and 19th centuries and they're around 1,500 still standing today it was all started by the aristocracy after their experiences on the Grand Tour this was a kind of gap year for aristocratic sons who travelled around Europe on their return to Britain they were keen to share their discoveries and built follies as a way of showing off their knowledge of the classical world the building styles were incredibly eclectic from pineapples to medieval towers and Follies were sometimes replicas of the main house I've comes Breitling Park and Sussex to understand more about the frivolous nature of follies Grimm Headley is a writer and folly expert this is built for John fuller mad Jack Fuller because he was a man who lived his life in the roaring way yeah and this is built for him by Roberts Merck Roberts smoke is a very prestigious art object smirk designed to British Museum absolutely so this was serious stuff [Music] designing Follies like these were a chance for architects to hone their craft with its Doric columns and classical proportions this building is an exercise and architectural harmony these columns was perfectly framed they've used on it it just is Oh etc and landscape perfectly combined isn't this neoclassical concoction is just one of six Follies that were built on maj axis days some of them were weird and wonderful reasons mad Jack boasted to his friends that he could see the spire of Dowling t'n from his dining room and some of his neighbors who knew the land just as well if not better than he did said we can think so mr. fuller we don't believe you can he's a high waiter I can he came down in the morning threw up in the curtains looked over the hills no spire no Daleks in church whoops so that day he ordered to be built look at that that's it that's it he built that he built that and pretended that that was Danny's in church that was built in a day to win a bet absolutely bonkers mad jack but brilliant yeah ironically this folly probably cost more to build than he gained by winning the bat mad Jack Fuller loves folly so much he even wanted to be buried in one [Music] you're going to be buried solutely amazing make it a pyramid the more solium of mad jack fella yup it's probably one of the most surreal things that i've seen it's in an Egyptian pyramid alongside your quintessential English church full of Christian barrels and you know here we have a Ptolemaic internment it's madness hence mad you know it's all in the name red ha ha as far as Follies go bath lodge is certainly a statement on the landscape but I'm intrigued to know if it ever had a practical use it's one the things isn't it you see builder like this all nice and a Dilek and the countryside and people fall in love with it but you don't realize there's no infrastructure how did you come across as I'm gonna bacon butty and I saw in every paper eg yeah just got a feeling it's gonna be where I'm gonna finish me days off you know you're not gonna do another one I might finish you off me that's the weird thing gonna be in the Foundation's even me all the way one of us from would have been tools no one is 100% sure why the lodge was built the building footprint is 1,300 square feet and the exterior is great two star listed archaeological plans show the inside of the building has been continually changed in the 19th century was converted into residential use and was divided into four rooms upstairs and four rooms downstairs with the building in danger of collapsing mark has planning permission to keep and restore the exterior but it can completely redevelop the interior that walls can be gone the stairs we turn back on yourself and then directly here is gonna be a little oak library and then this will be open back the way up to the roof space with skylights in how many bedrooms just one bedroom that's not me just one just one bedroom so what you're doing an extension wasn't like everyone on the back a little one yeah maybe kids are going out there so that would be very modern and this would be quite traditional in this bit mark plans to strip the original layout of small rooms into a one-bedroom house for him and his wife the bedroom will occupy all the first floor and downstairs they'll be a living room and double high dining area by the staircase outside existant foundation sure originally there was a cobbled courtyard and farm buildings around an l-shaped wall mark plans to use these foundations to create a new fully enclosed courtyard by adding an additional wall this courtyard extension is massive 3,500 square feet housing three big bedrooms want for each daughter a kitchen diner a utility and a games room that all welcome to a central fountain sorts an impressive modern extension attached to the back of the folly I think this is brilliant absolutely love us and I think he's great as well I think he's got loads of energy of enthusiasm and a lot of passion for the building which accounted for everything but I'm just intrigued about is what the new extension is going to look like though because 17 meters out from the back of the old building is a huge extension to doing something like this and I'm not quite clear in my mind what it's just going to look like but hopefully brilliant the foundations are going in but I'm concerned that boggy terrain will prove a challenge being a building contractor mark has the confidence to dive straight in but even as they start to lay the foundations the problems of a remote site like this begin to surface water table which is the amount of groundwater is so high so if you dig a hole just to that on your hit water that's a tricky thing when you're building here so as soon as you put a trench in all the water's coming back up and you don't want water and now and there's not much concrete so just two weeks into the project even an experienced builder like Mark is finding that restoration can be a challenge and a palace of the building means that it's much more harder work the builder mark is taken it all in his stride the finance is in place to supply the utilities Mark's drilling a 6,000 pound borehole to find spring water and installing 200 millimetres of armored cabling to get electricity to the size but the conservation size could be a bigger challenge conservation officers have different opinions for different buildings in different areas because some of them quite easily could have come along and said you know what we want the extension of the traditional wanted year too much the brick when you look at like an exact replica that it's been there for the last 200 that's what I wanted to do but they don't want to do that they want us to give it a modern twist at the back what so I'll give math while mark is wrestling with the building's restoration I'm still struggling to find out more about its past the estate papers for the bath lodge were lost in the 1920s so they exact purpose of the building and when it was built remain a mystery the fact that it's a Gothic Revival building suggests that it could have been built sometime around the 1740s but we don't really know what we do know is that around the 18th century there was a bathing complex at nearby baths farm just a short distance away this recently restored fully in Warwickshire is one of the few remaining Georgian bath houses in the UK I'm here with landscape historian dr. Claire Hickman so come on in this would have been a room used for self dining in probably to meet people to have breakfast maybe have tea in the afternoon have that lovely view out of there but also it would have been used for and for changing down this way is where it gets really exciting home [Music] I wasn't expecting this this is like a completely different I know subterranean cave like world not like upstairs the shelves give you a bit of an indication and stalactite sat once you get down here god it's a bath house [Music] this beautiful building was built in 1748 around the same time as our bath lodge the plunge pool represents one of the key health trends of the Georgian era so what why would the Georgians so obsessed with bathing and and bath houses and lodges ones like this relate to ideas about living a long life and being healthy having sort of preventive approach - towards disease all these books start being published about how to live well and these sorts of things and there are doctors like dr. flora in Litchfield who starts saying cold bathing cold babies what's good for you okay but also as part of a pleasure thing so places like baths in Cheltenham but also kind of social places to go to yeah and this is kind of similar to then a smaller scale so you would come here you take a bath you perhaps bring your friends with you they might have stopped around the sides on these heard of stone benches jumped in and then go upstairs the classical room and have breakfast how cool is it well it comes straight from spring so the idea was to be as long as it could be everything would shrink probably seeing how this pool fits so neatly into this handsome folly makes me think it's possible our building could have housed something similar would there have been a bath in our building do you think and they could well have been I mean it's very fashionable they're a common thing in the Georgian period it's the same sort of date as this it's possible but it could also have been nearby and might have had somewhere in the woods potentially that has kind of a bath within it what kind of open-air thing have been enclosed in the building it doesn't have to always be in a building so in the Georgian era bath lodge could have been part of a wider bathing complex [Music] I'm off to meet a local historian who's so passionate about the old skirt area she's written books about our origins [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] without the records we can't actually prove moreless theory in one last attempt to get to the bottom of the lodges history I've come to speak to wrong gurney he's an archaeologist who carried out a survey on the lodge I'm hoping he has scientific evidence of the buildings failure purpose what can you tell me about this building wasn't used as a proper bath lodge or not well what we can tell basically is that the building itself does not appear to have been used as a bath in any form okay we think it's possibly a sort of a a practical folly certainly built by the landowner it was a sort of a statement on the landscape and design obviously to be viewed from a distance but that building was not used for bathing that's right I think that's more less even the nail on there thank God for that it's taking months to get the right stage so it seems that everyone was right because this building had so many different uses over its lifetime although we can't confirm the exact year the bath Lodge was built we do know it started its life as a folly it never had a plunge pool but was loosely connected to the health spa that nearby bath farm in the 19th century it was converted into a hunting lodge surrounded by woodland after World War two it was left in rot until its current custodian mark came along while the history of the lodge is becoming clearer its future is not so certain two months into the bills personal troubles have struck the family Mark's wife is ill and is in hospital and if that wasn't bad enough mark is now under enormous financial pressure the bank has pulled along just our trick use agree with the banks because since I mean for example on Monday they were down the bank was down and everything was happy and they said that the paperwork for them and everything was okay and by Friday after the bank had been took over they changed the lending completely so you know they'd agreed in principle they took it back four days later in order to keep the build going Mark's using the family savings and credit cards on top of shame as Elvis that's a huge burden but chest pains all weekend but it's stressful many things are stressful you know and you didn't think I have to worry about it but well I mean at the end of the day that if it takes a bit longer and a bit of best dress involved in it it's part of in it Mark's rolling to businesses the restoration project and with his wife and hospital he's looking after his three daughters suddenly it all comes crashing down in October 2008 mark gets rushed to hospital with a massive heart attack I've come to seem recuperating at home how did it make you feel alone that you were just a couple of days from death oh that's hammer I just didn't know it sounds but I didn't think about it I had so much going on to me yet anyway with other things it's only afterwards that you can man you think you start to realize then you how fragile your life is you know how easy it's taking away from me but within a couple of days I would have been dead there's no two ways about it I've just gotta realize that I've gotta start slowing down basically eating less baking buddies drinking less bit more exercise you know but do you think you can tell your foot off the pedal now I'm really struggling because the business doesn't really let you I've come from a council estate or whatever but you have this in the back of your head that you don't ever know there's nothing wrong with the council state but whatever you make it never I don't think ever really feels like it's yours so you have to work a bit harder to keep that you know and always have that nest egg just stop it so your kids can always have a a better chance than what you did I'm struck by Mark's Drive and passion despite all of his problems all is concerned about is getting the job done he's fallen in love for the buck Lodge he adores that building I even said in that conversation you know he looks aren't these misses and says if I don't make it out of this hospital finish the bath wash because I've done it for you and I've done it for the kids it's huge you know emotionally that is amazin fembra take all the risks and the pressures that we doesn't life just sue his wife and his kids got a beautiful place called home and I'm just happy that he's around now to finish it [Music] four weeks ago mark Horton had a massive heart attack his wife's in hospital and the bank has pulled the loan anyone else would have thrown in the towel but incredibly he's back at work [Music] today a Korean is on site to put in the new oak beans these are critical in supporting the structure but placing them in the old brickwork is a delicate operation one false move and they could topple the three hundred-year-old walls completely concrete block structures I think another house within the house to support the whole of the outer skin was in such a bad way that's all tied in now with anchor bolts and that should keep them out most the building together as a structure that's why rata can walk through the inside and let now are taking the roof off because it's something there to hold the actual the two gables up I'm surprised no one from the conservation office or the council has turned up for such a crucial down the project not see many planners are not seen the council before they left me alone they've been trying to sell this bone for about 35 years nobody's bought it so the fact I bought it now and we are saving it you know it will be a house it will last them you know another 300 years [Music] it's as if marks close call with death Spurs him on and over the next month the build progresses rapidly but I'm worried that he's pushing too hard and too quickly forgive an idea right just say yeah that's good alright yeah I'm not doing any good more this is brilliant look at that it's absolutely fantastic I can't believe you've got this quickly actually the builders moved on so much I'm kind of confused how it has done because you didn't have any money the last time I'll say the bank had pulled all the funding and you didn't have much money left in the bank so how much do all this I've just used every penny I've got every bit on my overdraft and he spare money they added in my business anything you've got to get going get it looking something like so they can actually see past the past a bit work past the rubble they've got be able to see past that to give a valuation I mean we've paid three hundred three hundred thousand for this we spent no probably a hundred thousand and they've divided that Bank valleys it now just under a million pounds horrible process though oh yeah very stressful now the bank can see the potential in this building they've given mark a hundred and fifty eight thousand pounds to finish the project structurally the building is complete so from here on in it's all about the detailing I'd concerned the conservation officer has not visited site for a long time and I'm beginning to worry about marks finishes doing an old building in a unique location you've got to think about the artists that should be with different means and you can just take the rules of a standard normal domestic house and apply it or not building like this and what has gone well of course you do every other house that I've done anywhere else in the world well yeah if you're on the Kazi in there and the man who's going to see you so why put up all gods in this mother doesn't make any sense architecture it's eight weeks later and the conservation officer visits site and the news isn't good the situation at the moment is that we're looking at some minor changes to the approved plan that mark has done those panels or sections were the new building joins the old building are really important to define the old historic building from the new work mark has used old bricks with the new extension at the front as he wants a seamless join but the conservation officer what's a clear distinction between the old folly and the new building just as Mark has done at the back of the building with a temper panel now the conservation officers concerns may force mark to rethink the front but it's something he doesn't want to do the worst so now areas that he's it's gonna cost about 25 bands when this conservation officer he's what he says Dunster to go unless you want to fight him it's not a standard house and there are special considerations for a listed building I hope that despite money being tight mark will take the conservation officers feedback on board but when our next visit site I've got a bigger concern we've got plastic it I hate all the lovely quality materials you've used on this your all-singing all-dancing glass skylight you do it and white plastic yeah it's you gonna overspend now I'm Charlie cook keep it on budget cuz we've gone quite a bit over you I know mark has gone over budget and I don't want to add to his stress but these details are really important when restoring an old building I hope I can stop him from making the same mistake with the rest of the glazing so that just one big glass skylight across er yeah but what the framing of its it's okay underneath and then plastic on yourself you don't see it's flat for you upstairs window you can look out and see white plastic sections on top why don't you tell me nearly late coming by scrimping on the finishers mark is risk in the architectural soul of the building and isn't going to win any favors with the conservation officer all the materials must have integrity so he really needs to replace the plastic skylight with one made of it's June and it's a big day Sheena is back on site and so is the conservation officer hi MA he's insisting that a glass panel be installed to distinguish between the old folly and the new extension but at a cost of 25,000 pounds mark is still arguing against it solutely the two styles are completely different anyway so that gives you a physical play the way that the extensions been designed is to provide a sort of modern ancillary extension to the principal building we need to follow that through to create that break between the new and old I don't treat you any differently than I would treat any other owner of a listed building and make everybody jump through the hoops importantly it's taken six months of negotiations but mark reluctantly agrees to put a glass panel in at the front of the building and there's more bad news in size as I thought the conservation officer doesn't like the plastic skylight and it too will have to be changed clearly when you come down the drive and in the lungs all of our budget and me thinking this is the cheapest way of doing it and it doesn't work this is what George did as you can see put less of an angle on this one works and I'm not I'm to take this one off like everyone I've done this works because again it's this idea it's the glazing it's hidden for one but also it's the idea that the glazing provides that link that light link that like torch between the new extension and that the old building when you take on an old building you're a custodian for future generations and Mark now realizes there could be no shortcuts when it comes to restoring our architectural heritage everybody gets everything right doesn't matter how clever you are but how clever you think you are how smart you think you are whatever it's you've gotta listen to the people you know they can't just make exactly what you want [Music] in August 2008 when I first came to this majestic but sad and forgotten building I had to walk through a field to get to it but in just over a year it now has its own grand drive I mean he still got the porter cabin here and sheds here and skips here and everything else oh he must have just moved in but the building when Mark began the restoration of the bath launch had no roof and the walls and floors have completely fallen and he's turned a derelict 18th century folly into a modern family home just just I love the way actually the standard here that you look up and see old moms captain restored the unique original exterior but has completely transformed the inside I mean this is the line of the old pot that's it yeah it cost at the very top just a lovely rich timber effect of the old building on the ground floor the original small rooms have been demolished to create a comfortable dining area and living room ceiling and everything I know it's cost you a fortune and in so many ways I think the building deserves the respect I'm a bit respecting the extra money that's been well worth it yeah because mark has installed a new staircase demolished the four small rooms and created a spacious master bedroom Sheena has imposed her own unique style to the interior design it's super glam the heart and soul of this decadent building has been indulged once again oh look at that you've gone for it and a huge way to a nice hot country house hotel for the weekend that's what the joinin juxtaposition between the old foley and the new modern extension is fluid light and spacious restoration built in a modern projector TV room the boy just never grows up and following on from the cinema is the gym just to keep me fit but of heart attack prevention a little too good for her what I love about this new extension is that all the rooms face onto the central courtyard but the old folly still dominates so you're always reminded of the unique history of this building on the north side is a generous family kitchen and all the girls bedrooms around the courtyard are fitting from modern 21st century princesses the older girls have the option to make their rooms into one big space and with the hot tub in the courtyard the baths Rogers once again living up to its name what do you think the courtyard really nice lots of parties about that although mark still has to change the skylight and put in the glass panel at the front he has at last built his family dream home but it remains to be seen whether workaholic mark is able to settle down stop you're not doing another one no way we're not having them do another one are we go no we want him to enjoy it with us exactly [Music] I last saw Morgan Sheena around two years ago when they just moved in to their restored property to be honest with after everything they've been through they were absolutely naked so I'm really excited to come back and just find out what life's like for them and their new home I'm keen to see if restless mark has found his home for good hello how are you okay wait a while yeah how's the family all the great they're loving it yeah yeah it's so quiet we've got a garage gara gara we built that but that's that we're sorting that out is wrong wrong with the council so what you weren't allowed to do it well we agreed all with the conservation officer yeah and I got sick away that started the worst from sort of where's have to take it down and one bit that the planner and conservation officer got a bit upset about before is the one who's kind of glass in here didn't it they wanted the clear break between northern you and you haven't done it no because we've got a panel up to see what it look like over ten they didn't make me do it so that's all right when he first started the project mark was inspired to build a new extension after the discovery of the old foundations of an original courtyard and one of the key aspects of this bills is how the alder new come together [Music] when Alice came the extension had only just been finished I'm intrigued to see how the new modern materials have weathered all the time that's great this is what I love about this house as well you know you want to do through the front door tiny tiny little strip of hallway and you're outside again outside to outside straightaway looks fantastic really weathered well and it's working really nicely with your building isn't it just complements it you feel like oh yeah here you know on a nice sunny day if they feel like yeah in a complete different place but actually what's clever about it because you're in such an exposed area with all the fields around you and you get belted by the wind sometimes but as soon as you come to this courtyard space you've got an external area that's completely hidden away from her mark has now grown an ecological grass roof on the extension which helps the building blend into the landscape the natural roof can also act as insulation yes if you picked up a bit of the field and just got on the roof it's great Tina from this position yeah lovely get all the beautiful landscape around the railway line alongside as well really is lovely the last time I was here mark was under strict orders from the conservation officer to change the plastic skylight and this looks so much better really love it yeah I mean that is fantastic ocean surfing the white plastic on there which jumped out like a sore thumb with these details addressed the new extension is really coming into its own and heart of the home is the kitchen we do tend to use this room a lot I think that's how modern families are the kitchen everybody's around the kitchen the city watch the telly and then we go off to the old fogies a bit that way that's it yeah building with a split personality yeah and the oldest and the orbit and the young ones in the new bit yeah [Music] the interior of the old building is just as homely and comfortable as it was the last time I was here but there was warm detail that I wasn't keen on the rippled glass in the bathroom still in Stella something I thought you might have been tended to change it I was what the daughter refused to sing a dad standing up from the toilet really it's not that she's banished I mean I suppose once in a while when the train goes past the odd person might get a little view yeah if n Sofia [Music] I really enjoyed research in the history of the building it had many lives from a folly to a hunting lodge to a residential property for the last 70 years it had been a derelict shell Marcus transformed it back into a family home I first met historian Mona Duggan two years ago she's come to the bath lodge to share an exciting discovery amazing change all finished and all this extension as well Mona has a document which shows that a hundred and fifty years ago the lodge was a similar picture of domestic bless it was written by Thomas Williams who lived here with his family he was a botanist really because he collected plants and I think he gathered them into this gun and oh he was a poet and he wrote a poem about this great tsunami mentions his greenhouse so this is a poem by him a description I can't believe the forms called the bench by the wall and look at us a little bench by a little low-level war my cottage it stands at the end of the lane and though very humble I never complain if the Sun shines it all the Sun shines at all it should it should to shine there and I'm always content whether rainy or fair I would not change my drooling for palace or Hall for my cot is my castle although very small all the windows LeGarrette on a garden so gay then I'll read from the roses that seldom decay when I chance in the summer to open the wide adjustments and roses come dangling inside with beautiful freedom but still after all I would rather sit out on the bench behind the wall but as a real find that is so descriptive about what this place used to be like yes and it's very important because we have very few documents about the place I love the fact that the history of this unique building is being continually unraveled and mark has made a discovery of his own when we store in the panels and the old sign and date it natalka so we know that the rendered panels were done 1720 that's murder yeah I therefore fully building that's actually really early yeah well we're trendsetters of this bit the country Mark's discovery means the bath lodge was built 20 years before we originally thought this is significant as it could make the lodge one of the earliest examples of a Gothic Revival folly in the UK as morna's poem has Sean this building was also once a beloved family home all of Mark and Sheena's hard work has brought Hart back to the buff Lodge again it's really great to come back and see how well it works as a family home because it really does you can tell even though it's deceiving because it's bigger than you think but it still remains homely we all like our own different bit I mean mark loves the gym can't get him out of it but as you can tell apparently we actually fight over the treadmill well I can take away is it taking it easy even fractionally or not because I can't believe he is I know that he's a bit of a worry cuz you know there are days we've noticed that haven't we when he comes home and you can see the pressure is endure as is everybody these days but he never he never gives up and he's always thinking of the other people he employs it's not just about him his house his family he looks after the people who work for him as well as he looks after us [Music] that in terms of the kind of journey of restoration because it was well let's face it it was tough to say absolutely at least I was it all worth it if you ask me what to do it again the answer will be no if I could without health scares and you know the problem side of it then to end up but this would be a yes this is this is home [Music] in a restoration really is the most wonderful journey when Mark first bought this building when I first came to see it all those years ago it was nothing more than a rack or a ruin in the middle of the landscape we now know a little bit about what the spelling might have been useful we know something about the people who lived here in the past but what I love more than anything was the fact that mark and Shima [Music] [Music]

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