From Derelict to Dream Home - The Restoration Man - S02 EP7 - Home Renovation

across Britain thousands of historic buildings  have been neglected their owners are able to   restore them because of planning restrictions  or lack of money luckily some romantics do take   on the challenge of restoring and converting  these historic buildings this was the worst   case scenario is that we threw our toys out  about Wilson it often agricultural military   and industrial buildings are abandoned because  they seem too big or unfit for residential   conversion as an architect I'm passionate about  our industrial heritage these buildings have as   much history and as many stories about our past  as any castle folly or medieval Hall I love the   challenge that these unusual spaces give us when  we're trying to create a place called home this   time I'm gonna help a retired couple take on the  challenge of restoring of forgotten tool that the   Victorian railways a steam locomotive water tower  remember this all the days of our lives and we'll   look forward to living in it and made others  who are passionate about our railway heritage I've come to settle in North Yorkshire this  was once a remote wild and inaccessible part   of Britain but the settle to Carlisle railway  that runs through the center of the town changed   all that completed in 1876 the railway linked  the towns of sattell and Carlisle to the rest   of Britain in the same year a vast brick and  cast-iron water tower was built to service the   steam trains at cetl station but since the end  of mainline steam trains in the 1960s it has   remained unused and derelict railway enthusiasts  mark and Pat Rand bore the water tower in October   2010 retired for almost 15 years they've paid off  their mortgage and after time resources and energy   that this ambitious conversion when it came up  for sale we thought about it and then we thought   well let's buy a sensible bungalow at the end of  the day it was a family that persuaded us that   go on dad you've got keep you out of mischief  if nothing else not liked railways since it   was a little boy went Trainspotting I just somehow  cherish the delightful notion on a sunny summer's   evening with a glass of red wine in my hand  looking out and being able to see the trains   spot their numbers I can't wait mark is a retired  police Chief Superintendent and chairman of the   settle to Carlisle railway Association Pat worked  as a radiographer and now runs the settle station   shop they are seasoned restorers of all buildings  and have already completed a grade 1 listed folly   and a Georgian house in the town they bought the  tower for 200 near thousand pounds and plan to   convert it into a two-bedroom residential property  and a garage for their other passion vintage cars so I'm on my way to meet mark and Pat who  have built an old water tower right beside   the South Station the idea was that this  building would still all the water needed   for the steam trains that would have run  on this line I'm really excited about this   story not least because I'm on the settle  to Carlisle railway line which is recognised   as one of the country's finest feats of  engineering just been on this train been   on this historic route it really makes you  feel like you're part of British history and   the fact that they've taken this building on  I think is absolutely magical when they need   professional architectural advice or just a  helping hand I'll be there to support them   on their restoration journey what a stunning  journey so where's this fantastic building mark and Pat water tower is only 50 metres from  South Station water was piped underground from   the tower to a pompous at the tracks where  the trains were filled during the Age of   steam locomotives there was a water tower roughly  every 50 miles along the track building yeah when   our structural engineer came looked at it he  said I've never seen or measured a straighter   squarer more vertical building I certainly  didn't dream of ever owning anything like this the water tower is a grid - listed building  it's ten meters high with a footprint of 386   square meters the ground floor was used at one  point as stabling for railway horses while the   roof was capped with a cast-iron tank with a  capacity to hold 43 thousand gallons of water   cathedral-like space that's fantastic isn't  Pat wood what do you think when you stand in   the space like this now and start imagining  and what it might be as home can you do it we   want it to be very modern inside lots of glass  I like the clean lines of today's furnishings   and flooring some things like this what a  more entry to say at this point as that big   tank upstairs because that's the entire  reason for this but enough to say : this   water tower was one of thousands dotted along  the country's railway lines today most have   been demolished in 1984 the set of water tower  was listed and thankfully safe for the nation fantastic well a week ago it was a nice ring  put up here what's it gonna be well we've we've   imaginative ly called it the roof it's going to  sit back from the tank edge by about a meter so   and obviously it'll peep above the edge of  the tank I'm just wondering is the way you   could reuse these to make your ballast roads  well that has crossed my mind some of them are   pretty some of them are too slender but this  one's here yes yes a charming thought to use   them your floor level boats how you build it  all up you could be something a second step 360 panorama there and we've got the color  railway most important unbelievably beautiful   a new contemporary style one-story annex will be  built on the back of the original tower a stairway   will lead up to an enlarged glass and steel front  door with a raised porch on the ground-floor will   be two bedrooms a bathroom and a utility room  and toilet in the Annex the main entrance will   open onto a landing with a stairway going up to  the first floor where there'll be a 12 metre long   living room and an adjacent kitchen an internal  stairway will lead up to the water tank where   there'll be a glass and steel roof extension  and a roof terrace either size their building   design is inspirational and brave but I think  they've missed a trick you come in through the   front door and you go automatically upstairs  how do you then get your bedroom you have to   go down another internal stair you would go  out into the utilities kitchen sort of air   in down the stairs as much as I like the idea  that you come in and then you can walk up this   beautiful grand staircase to the first floor I  think it's madness to not have some some form of   steps down in here to get the old bedroom lovely  just if you need mark and Pat have got planning   permission to convert the tower into a dwelling  but have yet to get approval for their design   clearly our next step is to go to building regs  design stage and we don't waste money on that if   it's going to absolutely not be approved so  we have not yet got in writing the approval mark and Pat tower was built in 1876 on the  72 mile long settle to Carlisle line which was   part of the Midland Railway link in London with  Scotland Victorian railways truly revolutionized   Britain's way of life and it's architecture  changed the nation - in 1875 building news   proudly declared that railway termini and hotels  were to the 19th century what monasteries and   cathedrals were to the 13th century from the  cathedral like stations like Bristol Temple   Meads or Brighton with their vast iron and glass  roofs to the smaller Gothic style stations like   settle Victorian railway architecture  produced some of our greatest buildings one of the jewels in the crown of railway  architecture is undoubtedly st. Pancras   station in London and the adjoining old Midland  Grand Hotel which just happens to lie at the   southern terminus of our railway line the  Midland Grand Hotel was completed in 1876   with its elegant spires pointed arches ribbed  vaults and extravagant designs in 2011 the hotel   was fantastically restored to its former glory  I'm meeting hotel historian Royden stock why was   this building built in the first place and why  was it made into such a grand statement it had   three purposes actually for the Midland Railway  they wanted to announce the arrival in London   they wanted to show off the Midlands through the  materials used in the building and also to really   look down on their rivals that Great Northern  next door so the building did a good job of   all of those the Midland Grand Hotel was designed  by architect George Gilbert Scott during the 19th   century revival the Gothic architecture and design  if you just look at the details on this building   everywhere and it just draws your breath away  isn't it I mean from the kind of Gothic arches   the beautiful brickwork the fantastic steel work  when this was originally built how much did they   spend on it four hundred and thirty-eight thousand  pounds is the original figure today around about   six hundred million pounds I guess you could call  this the focal point are the building by the 1930s   the hotel's facilities had become outdated  and it became economically unviable rundown   and unloved in the 1960s British real apply to  have the building demolished we're so lucky to   be standing here today the staircase is a number  of unique features on it firstly the decorative   scheme this fleur-de-lis this is directly painted  onto the walls it's not a wallpaper or anything   so it's a stencil essentially about 2300 it's  all part of the Victorians creating a drama and   theater and romance yet architectural spirit from  the hotel you can walk directly on to st. Pancras   International Station which still retains the  stunning original Victorian structure it was the   largest single-span roof in the world designed by  a man called William Henry Barlow the engineer of   the middle man way and then here we've got well  one of my restoration heroes commemorative here   mr. John henchman I mean who actually yep in a  massive role didn't Ian save in this built they   did indeed it's all thanks to Sir John that  we're standing here today we've gotten around   to actually realizing just how important these  buildings are now important it is to save them   you've got class go right at the other end and  then we've got our little kind of humble water   tower kind of harmful in between but just as  important the restoration of the old Midland   Hotel in st. Pancras station is a remarkable  achievement and although mark and Pat's water   tower as a far more modest building it's no less  important but the success of same Palace comes   from a combination of good innovative modern  design combined with the old building Marg and   Pat wanna do exactly the same with their rooftop  extension I just hope the plan is go for it while   mark and Pat wait for the planners to give them  the green light to start building work on their   water tower mark has decided to take up my idea  of recycling part of the original building he's   reusing the water tanks metal bracing rods  and incorporating them into the new bills   I'm joining mark and local blacksmith David  Clemens to see how they're getting on David   I am very very jealous of your office space these  are the stanchions their other removing but yeah   yeah the tie bars yep with from within the tank  yeah and we're forging them into the stanchions how'd you even get back the right diameter how do  you do it well put a little mark in it you just   see a sentiment from just there oh yeah I'm gonna  cook through that because I've already worked out   the circumference of the bar and that's exactly  that like so when they when it's wrapped around   they should just meet but just a nice gap  there for a while for centuries blacksmiths   had traditionally stamped their initials on  their metalwork and then David wants me to   help them out have I got like one chance at this  you've got a nice orange here in this there okay take the block out spin that yeah can I leave it's  ready yeah okay right thank you see was it right I   didn't enough not seen enough touch-up yeah yeah  yeah it still be warm a mark in history for years   and years and years to come back on sight mark  has permission to carry out repair work on the   building and begins with the painstaking job  of stripping new crusty exterior of the tank   he wants to repaint it and the original Midland  Railway colors we're preparing to paint these   panels out of which the tank is made each of  these is four feet in old money precisely wide   and 3 feet high and as each has got three sort  of color components the middle bit was and you   can see still is that's probably the original  color cream a color called Envy pottery cream   so that middle bit it's gonna be that color and  then we've got a scalloped detail here about an   inch wide frame and that's gonna be Venetian red  and then the outer bits where all these mighty   great nuts-and-bolts flanges are is actually the  same color that the Midland Railway painted their   locomotives they're called dark Brunswick green  they'll come a time when I'm able to stand back   from this and look at it and think I painted  that like all restoration projects Marga's   caught between modern building regulations  and the requirements of the conservation of   a cell because it's a three-story building  he's been told you'd have to install an   exterior fire escape to the roof extension  but the conservation officer doesn't approve   led to delays we would have hoped we would  have started by now on things that depend   on planning and listed building consent and  so on but we haven't started we haven't given   tender documents to any contractors so there  is an inherent delay even from here on it is   exceedingly frustrating Mark's not the only one  who's tearing his hair out the delay has taken   its toll on part two I have felt very frustrated  very annoyed sometimes irritated perhaps is a   better word I felt we're never going to see the  end of this sometimes but I've never given up as Mark and Pat struggle to get their plans  accepted I want to find out more about the   settle to Carlisle line and what life was like  for those who built it professor of railways   studies Colin Duvall is taken me to a well-known  landmark the Riverhead viaduct where many of the   workers lived in a makeshift camp called bunny  green Colin this is the most stunning landscape   it's not to imagine how they even built a railway  line it's it's wonderful isn't it but it's it's   harsh and then we can feel that particularly  today Chris January morning so you imagine what   it must have been like living out here and  building this wonderful wonderful structure   this railway was built almost entirely by hand  for years it took to build that structure and   probably about 2,000 men working on the projects  most of those men were living hereabouts in this   very very harsh terrain in camp and shanty  towns if you like many of them brought their   their wives and their children with them there  were schools there were shops people came here   because the money was comparatively good but  they had to put up with it with pretty harsh   living conditions was it like a kind of rabble I  mean you have people kind of battling with each   other I was at a friendly place to be well let me  have this reputation of being unruly mom and then   of course you know there were fights these were  hard men they were hard drinking then there was   certainly a lot of alcohol consumed on the site  allegedly one man even sold his wife for a barrel   of beer he saw this wife for a barrel of beer  well that's why they say I brought a few pictures   with me we can get a sense of what it would have  been like on on the railway for example to got   here a picture of a couple of pictures really  of the provider under construction so amazing with 24 arches 32 meters high at 400 meters it's  the longest viaduct on the settle to Carlisle line the dangerous working conditions and widespread  disease meant the workers paid a high price   Colin's taken me to Saint Leonard's Church and  nearby village Chapel Edale so calm were there   many lives lost in the construction of the  railway yes there were tragically money on   average over the six years it took to build the  line there was a death a week so death the week   several hundred people and that was mostly from  that's from the accidents on the site itself   building the line but you also have to think  about the deaths in the shanty towns of around   just overwhelmed the churchyard to the point where  the Midland Railway paid 20 pounds to help extend   the churchyard the land beyond is where we think  most of the bodies are buried in unmarked graves   many of those deaths were of children we all hear  of an extract from the burials register for this   parish 11 months 9 months 3 years 4 years 1 year  and 6 months 6 months 10 months and 10 already finally after several on-site meetings  between the planners and the conservation   officer a decision has been made the exterior  fire escape has been rejected I'm pretty   confident that we have achieved a breakthrough  on on process which thus far has been irksome four months later they've got planning permission  to start work but they still have to get approval   for the rooftop extension I'm back to see how  they're getting on you've brought the sunshine   to set well thank you it is a building site now I  think we've moved 600 tons of spoil off the site   those guys coming up here I love it so what's  going on well we're making the hole for the   stairway that's coming up here ceiling through to  get rid of the water that's it and then trying to   get these beasts out well those haven't moved  three hundred and thirty-five years amazing   actually that's friends are still in pretty  good Nick Connor if you're feeling strong can   you just lift that one out you're standing on  there's no ball taller than us no it's resting   on two beams it can't just like gently stand  back over there right you could have told me   that before I stepped on it well under his  planning permission marks allowed to build   a one-story extension at the back of the tower  and then what's good around here then so what   we've got the biggest this is the extension whoa  look at that yep extension this is this has flown   up in the last fortnight fantastic the planning  process has been quite complicated so you've got   planning for everything to do with your building  but you haven't got planning for the glass box   on the roof yeah yeah we've got planning but but  the glass box is a big big step to this building   isn't it supposed to be a separate amendment to  the planning application in in essence we kick   off another 28 days of a planning consultation  but in terms of the design of this box what I'm   not going to look like because I'm in the impact  of this thing yes on top of this old building is   this really important I mean you know balance  of not to scale a proportion but also but how   its detailed and what it's made out of and  how elegant it is as unbelievably the whole   emphasis is on the word ethereal the roof of is  thin as possible consistent with insulation and   structures and it takes its inspiration from  from the 1920s in fact Mies van der Rohe and   specifically its Pavilion in Barcelona one of  my favorite buildings in the world now we don't   know if settles ready for my spender oh yeah  we're onto something here and I just hope that   that planning application goes through smoothly  clearly we can't start building this until we've   got the got the formal approval for Marg and Pat  restoring this building is a once-in-a-lifetime   opportunity now they desperately want this modern  steel and glass rooftop extension on top of the   old structure but if the planners don't like  it or they receive huge amounts of objections   from the local neighbors they might not get  what they want it's eight months since mark   and Pat rands started restoring their railway  water tower and settled North Yorkshire caught   between the country demands of the planning  and conservation authorities there have been   frustrating delays but this hasn't stopped mark  from pushing Aird trench don't Lee brilliant oh yes I didn't see a 20 on that side  and a 11 just on the other side 2011   mostly stamped come on let's go never know  actually let's get in there get over this that is staggering it's just till this all went in and the we've seen on  the plan and you just don't get the sense   of it but it gives you a completely different  perception of the building because we've always   walked in and said what a brilliant building  what a fantastic box what a great space and   actually there's always a danger when you start  filling it with things that you lose that sense   of wonder and actually I think it's made it  even better because you feel like you're up   in the heavens of the building you're closer to  those amazing iron girders up there but the plan   at the moment is Pancras a roof blew for the flat  surfaces the ceiling yeah and read probably we're   not we haven't yet decided such unique building  yes I think it would be shame to try to make it   into a ordinary semi-detached house which it isn't  and I think we've got to use the original features   and leave them and enhance them if necessary but  certainly not change them in any way so far so   good but how's the roof extension coming along  the steel people here are like coiled Springs   waiting to build it and to bring it all the way  from Hull on a big lorry and plunk it on the top   the flat roof that surrounds it and the flat  roof roof of it prefers to be done in warmer   weather so we don't want to be doing that in  winter you know that injects a little bit more   so we lived actually you did you do know that  decision within a row yes yes is it get on with Victorian industrial buildings were not  only built for purpose but they were also   aesthetically pleasing mark and Pat are determined  to conserve as many of the original features as   they can Glacia Michael God is restoring the metal  framed windows you can't just get anybody doing it   you need to have the experience because obviously  every single bar on the frame is different sizes   the twist the warp over the years to operate  hundred and twenty-five year old window he's   had a lot of weather at it so it basically after  tailor make every single pane so now we're going   to put the pin across in apply an equal pressure  bearing in mind it's not water it's metal so if   you push too hard it'll break in Victorian  terms they would have used two millimeter   picture bus they did have trouble was especially  in openers in the Victorian times as especially   a box ash window when they actually slid them  up and down occasionally they would bang to   the bottom two millimeter glass shatters so they  went up to three millimeter glass which stopped   the shattering and now we use four millimeter  glass which is fast more substantial the time   and effort that would have gone into these frames  we would produce in an hour now whereas this frame   would have probably taken one month three days  to make craftsmen really really incredible in   it's a pleasure to work on them to keep old  these will last another ordered 150 years great - listed mark and Pat's tower this  built of sandstone cast iron and glass the tower base it had a water tank right on the  top of it I could hold 43 thousand gallons of   water and all of that water came through by  gravity across to the railway line and fill   for super thirsty steam locomotive trains and  what's amazing as the water tank had a capacity   to fill eight big locomotives without needing  to be refilled that's in 1939 that the water   tower actually took on a very different use  it began to be used for horse stay blank and   we know that because there was four horse stalls  built in there and a cobbled floor installed and   actually mark from the most incredible thing  in the walls of the tower if only a mini time   capsule and in here Sutton knows about the guys  who actually did the work at the time but from   1968 the tower became redundant as mainline  steam was no longer used on British Railways   of the eight hours that were on the settle to  Carlisle line and fortunately bargain Pat's is   the only one to survive a unique remnant of the  age of steam now that mark and Pat are starting   to think about interior design I'm taking  them to a converted water tower in Cardiff   for inspiration I'm just not gonna say anything  mirrors but lots of us wore gloves Wow your walk   into a space like this actually this would feel  very narrow very small and very claustrophobic   if this is all solid wall but you've got murther  and full-length mirror here so it feels it feels   really quite where all's really does meet new  what do you think the stake is slight looking   into mirror of what we've got a turn so this shows  us how he's gonna look I'm gonna ask our architect   have you seen this place no I just love the way  I should come up the staircase you get a sense   of what it's really mainly a triple height you  know tune off story how it spins yes it turns on   light comes through you turn over the bridge  step we went left don't let the dining table   right over to the staircase you can look up  and see the sky and then you're in the tower come to a landing area glass balustrade  beautiful slot window looking all the way   down there to stony high space and then you go  from internal space quite a few stories off to   slide in the store across coming outside then  you get this know you won't want to do this   dear but it is super toughened so just moving  this is where glass technology has completely   changed architecture it really has I mean yes  you could have put glass skylights before but   it couldn't have taken the weight of people  and then the last thing for you to see which   is the reward for all that walking up  the staircase is the vision of amazing Oh king of the castle I mean this must give  you a bit of confidence that you have the   right decisions yes it feels as though where  we've plowed a very similar furrow and come   up with very similar resolutions and it gives us  gives me a degree of confidence that what we're   doing is is with with precedent and and right just  as it seemed that their planning application for   the roof extension was going to get the green  light mark has received a new objection from   the planning department on the eastern side we  overlooked a very private garden and we want to   be good neighbors we don't want to overlook unduly  so we've been asked just on this eastern edge to   lower the deck from eleven hundred millimetres  which is there present proposal to sixteen hundred   millimetres now this will mean that along that  eastern edge you'll be stood in a trough worst   possible scenario is that a planning wobble at  this stage on the roof room which is totally   separate planning application from the main  planning application could at worst mean that   we don't get a rose roof room it's make or break  time for Marg and Pat if the complaint is upheld   that plans could be rejected outright and their  dream of having the roof extension could be over at last month's after submitting  a planning application and a year   after they bought the tower mark and Pat  have a decision from the planners on their   cherished steel and glass roof room we have  permission all of the roof room whew Cheers under police escort the 13.7 tone  structure reaches settle and is   guided through its narrow streets after a  long journey from hole its cost mark and   Pat's fifty thousand pounds I see flashing lights well look at that isn't that great right well older alito's thanks very much  jumpy gosh that's brought tears to my eyes   so beautiful using a huge crane the roof room is  lifted in one piece into its final destination it's more than I've ever dreamed of absolutely  elated now this is finally here I think we can   consider the booty the back of the jobs broken  now and it's just twiddly bits remember this all   the days of our lives and we'll look forward to  living in it by the early 1960s Britain's railways   were falling into decline the then Conservative  government wanted road travel to be the preferred   means of transport but what was to happen for  those thousands of miles of railways with much   of the railway network underused and expensive  the 1963 beaching report proposed axing one third   of the entire system and the settle to Carlisle  line was destined to become one of the casualties Mark's passion for his water tower was  inspired by his love of the settle to   Carlisle railway line but I've heard that  despite being a retired policeman he had a   radical past I'm meeting ex Transport  Minister Michael Portillo to Carlton they record the Friends of the settled Carlisle  line mark was in this organization and they were   very very good humoured and they were very  effective and they began to argue about how   the line could be run better and differently  for example if the schedules were better if   the stations along the line were reopened if  you could spend a down the line getting out at   different villages if you could connect it with  leisure pursuits like hiking and walking but they   made this very very good case and they showed a  different possible future for the railway line   but I remember I was very concerned when I finally  signed a letter that said that the line would be   reprieved that the friends and settle Carl our  line mark and the gang should show a long-term   commitment that they should do all the things  that they said they would do that the community   would come in and rejuvenate the stations and  and commit themselves to keeping those stations   running so people power played quite a strong  part in this being safe absolutely without the   campaign without the friends and cephalic of  our line the story would have worked out quite   differently in 1989 after years of campaigning  Michael Portillo decided the line should be saved as current chairman of the settle to Carlisle  Association mark is keen to meet Michael again   am I gonna read it somewhere that you said it  was one of your greatest achievements in politics   saving the life not one of my greatest migration  you said you would be able to get the ridership   up and then you said the communities will play  their part in restoring the stations and keeping   those up yeah and I then wrote a letter didn't I  - Edward album yes I well there's a surprise in   which I say you were pleased to hear that  the section state is announcing that he's   refusing consent for British Rail to close the  settled Carlisle railway line and then the last   paragraph I said look to the friends of the subtle  Carlisle line Association to cooperate rigorously   in supporting and promoting the line as you have  promised a promise which I must say you have amply with the line save for future generations mark  and Pat were able to concentrate on saving its   buildings heritage too after 12 months  of construction work their water tower   is complete when they first bought it the tower  had been a derelict shell for most of the last   century mark and Pat have now transformed  this relic from Britain's industrial past   into a home for their retirement morning  so proud of it all of the cleaning up that   you did on the top of the tank looks absolutely  stunning having that rooftop extension of there   is mind boggling on the beard of year I mean  the plan there was to make it look as serial   as invisible as you can make a building look it's  all worked superbly well do you think you've been   quite brave tuchus and we didn't really stop  to think we just did it sure yeah can either   way the ground floor was used as a stable for  horses the old entrance has been replaced with   a new large glass window in a steel frame and  a new staircase leading to a raised level porch beautiful the colors have you seen those colors  before thank hrus so the one change you did make   was the little staircase that you're just a  it's the joists they're useless but it's it's   lovely but actually I think I'll transform  the way that you use I think it allows of   the floor better before its restoration  this was a vast ten meter high room from   ground level to the bottom of the water tank  today a staircase leads to a brand new first   floor with a dining and living room oh  what a space it's beautiful absolutely we've painted it the floor is lovely isn't it  it's a pear a block and beam modern floor no   bounce in it now but before underfloor heating  such as no radiators around the place and this   amazing floating flying staircase that is such a  brave move you know I mean it really is brave to   do that because it looks so delicate look some  support no it does it is of course supported   at three points they had only three points and  it just floats you up to the top what have you   got this this is the wood of the staircase pick  it up I'm gonna break my back of my crikey came   out of this settle to Carlisle railway as a way  beam and all these stair treads are settling   Carlisle way beams the new annex on the back of  the tower contains the kitchen and is accessed   directly from the dining and living area this is  a lovely space non-partisan isn't it be pleased   with it I'm very very pleased that four things  fantastic about the diagram of this building is   that you've gone that's little of the orbit we're  gonna leave it as open plan as possible yeah we're   going to enjoy the architectural space and we're  gonna build a super functional kind of service   modern extension on the back yeah with clear  appliances kitchens utility rooms everything in   it to service beautiful orbit on the ground floor  beneath the living room is the master bedroom bathroom study and spare room finally I  can't wait to see the crowning glory of   their water tower the new rooftop  extension they fought so hard for welcome to the roof Oh yep it's stunning  it's absolutely stunning and there's the   Train yeah yeah yes yeah look at that 11:4 so  it's all about there's the 1146 it's on time   to Caroline they've also for that railway line  this building wouldn't be here this area project   yeah and if it wasn't for the continuance of  the railway line that's the thing yeah look   so opens up wide on to thee and then from  inside walls to the beautiful outside yeah what does it feel like being up here after  all this journey all the system is the first   time I came up here I couldn't believe it the  views are just stunning what's gonna happen to   this building in years to come it would be  nice to think that one day it somehow got   absorbed back into the railway the quality of  this restoration is first-class mark and Pat   have taken this wonderful industrial building and  created something magical inspired by modernist   architecture and using state-of-the-art  building materials they've transformed   the water tower into a stunning home so I've  got a present for you Wow the South Station   water tower history of and I just don't be  a lovely thing to document the journey that   we've been through together maybe over the last  and then the construction of the Celtic Carlyle really it is a very precious document  that perfectly documents it very very   great congratulations you have done the  most incredible job honestly thank you   so thank you George thank you for your all  your help I think it's time for celebration   yes I think we should toast actually  the saving of the cells come on over   but also the serving of this building and  the fantastically brave steps that you've   taken to restore Malden I'll drink to both of  those well done honestly an amazing project for Morgan paths to take on this project  in their retirement years is one thing but   to then restore it and combine it with  such fantastic 21st century crisp and   clean modernism there's another thing  altogether they absolutely made their   personal mark on the restoration of  this building and what a legacy it is you

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Length: 47min 26sec (2846 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 28 2020