Old Farm, Modern Restoration (Before and After) | Full Documentary | Reel Truth History

across Britain thousands of historic buildings have been neglected their owners unable 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 often churches mills and agricultural buildings are abandoned because they seem too big or unfit for residential conversion but don't really mind if this lasts me the rest of my days no die doing this it's extraordinary just actually see no people working here as an architect I'm passionate about our architectural heritage these buildings have as much history and tell us many stories about our past as any stately home or medieval castle I love the challenge that these unusual spaces give us when we're trying to create a place called home this week the preacher and his wife renovate a dilapidated pig barn and put their faith in a higher power and the housing market if we can't sell ours we have to sell this instead Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands mile upon mile of flat open country sized criss-crossed by high-speed roads and railways but away from the a1 there are plenty of reminders of the county's gentler agricultural past on the outskirts of the village of Edmonton stands common farm in the 1950s this was a well-to-do small holding home 270 White's ours and their piglets now the land has been sold off and the farm buildings are derelict teetering on the edge of total collapse for most people renovating this crumbling wreck would be a daunting prospect but to retire the state agent David Ward and his wife Judith both in their 70s that was love at first sight withdrawal fee and I said Oh what we could do with this you got out of the car look around I said I could be happy here yes it's a feeling thing isn't it David first saw the bonds in 2010 when it came to look at the farmhouse with his daughter Philippa who was looking to buy a family home they soon realized this was a golden opportunity for their close-knit family to live side-by-side and ended up buying balls I wanted them close I wanted them close by so that when they do need that extra bit of help I'm here to be where the grandchildren and children just absolutely dream is fantastic apart from his family David's other focus is his local church 15 miles away in Worksop where he preaches it's around the corner from their current home which is on the market but hasn't yet sold David's decided not to go for a mortgage so to get things moving a very generous friend from the church stepped in and laundered money for the build we've got a program at 23 weeks on paper we are allowing 26 Saudia to whether if it does go along as we hope it will do we shall be in in time for our 50th wedding anniversary which are on the 14th of June next year so we hope that'll all work out fun I'm sure it will positive it will ya [Music] family is the big motivating factor behind this restoration at an age when most people are putting their feet up David and to deter embarking on the project of a lifetime I mean what better than a bigger it to live in David and Judith are renovating the south and east facing sides of the bombs which used to house the pigs they're probably also includes the entrance courtyard the barn to the west side is owned by their neighbor if this is your next-door neighbor yeah what are these windows right those windows are his corridor down from his living space down to his bedroom so that will only be as a circulation area it's not a room area right yes yeah this is gonna be the latter all the all the lot stars and everything else today that's where the pigs were no they came up the pig went in there's a feed trough at the other end there's some more of these metal stands in there that gets demolished so we're taking that wall out and then you've got a lounge right the way through here and what goes upstairs upstairs you've got two bedrooms in the bathroom this 2-story building was originally a threshing barn there were once big barn doors on either side which allowed carts laden with sheaves of corn to be brought inside it's incredible boli I mean the brick works fantastic you can see how it's just been kind of knocked around and changed over the years yeah big brick arch there over the top that's office has been in filled-in even the hinges are still there for the big old barn doors it may have been patched up several times but at least this part of the site is reasonably stable which is more than can be said at the scene you're storing buildings where we'll listen this wall is quite interesting yes yes and I think it best come down before it falls down I was worried when we had these gales that we've had this last week and my part at the back this blowdown this stayed up I don't push too hard how long has it been in this condition well we don't know fully the details the house offers it 15 years ago it was empty so imagine this went with it because the farmer gave up pig farming and a family farm organization bought not a lot of land around here I mean a metal man or kinder look at this nice and lovely I had to looked at me said I would have bought it with those pink stars opposite no because I drove what looked it and thought wow you owe me asking how much you paid for yes I do mind you don't look there till you see the look in your eyes straightaway you were gonna tell me that yeah brilliant yeah it's absolutely brilliant I love it David wants to keep the exact budget for the bills private as well but in my opinion the project like this would need at least two hundred and fifty thousand pounds so do you wanna take me sores yeah I'm dying to see what they've got planned the barn isn't listed but the planners have insisted that they have to retain the original character of the building which means they can't alter any of the doors or windows the pig barn covers an area of 2,800 square feet David and Judith have decided to keep their bedroom bathroom and dressing room on the ground floor so they won't have to cope with stairs as they get older next all is a small sitting room or snug with a study alongside a small Lobby leads through to the main kitchen dining room which along with the utility and lanterns hall marks the end of the single story section of the Barnes the existing first floor of the old threshing barn formerly the hayloft would be removed along with the staircase and the area completely redesigned a gallery walkway will link to guest bedrooms and a bathroom the new orc staircase leads down to the ground floor which will be the living room the two large opposing barn doors which are currently bricked in will be opened up and glazed to create light films double-height space the whole building is wrapped around a south-facing courtyard which can be accessed from all the main reception rooms one element of their design that I don't agree with is that they've generally opted for lost ceilings I think honestly on this single-story section to have all of that as a flat ceiling in there is a huge lost opportunity right because I think in some areas if it opens up to the ceiling and you say beautiful rafters and nice old beams and a sense of space I think entrance hallway yes personally I would have that as a lifted up ceiling and kitchen dining I'll definitely have us a lift that I'm saying basically as you're standing in your kitchen you can look all the way up and you can put a skylight maybe in here so that when the sun's shining up there you're getting all that light coming down into the spirit when I'm at the bedroom well the bedrooms up to you personally I would do I would lift it up to the ceiling but to be honest with you if you want a slightly more intimate space I think this is a brilliant project but it's a very very ambitious one and I don't think David or Judith would mind me saying that they're not exactly spring chickens and they're going to need all the support of people around them because this is big and it's bold and it's going to take a hell of a lot of hard work effort and money [Music] deep in the nottingham chicanery sighs workers started on David and Judith's restoration of a dilapidated pig barn [Music] many parts of the structure were in a terrible state of repair so the first job is to demolish anything that's unstable over the years davidís turn up central houses so he's going to be project managed in the pills assisted by local builder Paul I mean a lot of it a lot of it is unsafe you don't know what you're gonna come up against can this been a lot of a lot of farmers sure to say over the years doing farmer build what we call farmer building is basically old fashioned concrete what stuck together a bit of concrete and it's difficult to know what's tied in so we really got to be aware all the time it may just be a humble agricultural building but dig deep enough and even a pig barn has a story while they're getting on with the restoration I'm gonna sift through some local records to see what I can find out [Music] these are the earliest sales details I can find for Egmont and common farm they date from 1938 and they cover an area of 179 airguns the sales details list the individual farm buildings including a pig place and a pigsty the vendors are the Rufford Abbey estate ruffed was one of the great historic estates of Nottinghamshire and you can see Edmonton common farm right on the edge of the estate DeWolf by the main body of it which was fifteen thousand five hundred square acres in size and right at the heart as the main house ruffed Abbey originally built as a monastery in the 12th century Rufford was later adapted into a grand country house it's now owned by Nottingham she County Council and run as a country park the great house is a partial ruin but for over 300 years it was the seat of the Savile family Ronald Hutton professor of history at Bristol University is an authority on 17th century English aristocracy this estate was owned by one of the great families of English political history of the Savile's they start off being a regular peaceful local gentry family they marry into our stock recei which looks good but then they play political roulette they get involved in English Civil War and its disaster because they're on the losing side that of the king head of the family dies commanding York the heir to the title that's young George Savile is besieged in a castle then he has to run abroad to avoid being taken prisoner by his enemies in the topsy-turvy world of 17th century politics the Savile's were now at an all-time low but their comeback was Swift and impressive Oliver Cromwell took power but not for long he died only five years later and when the monarchy was reinstated George Savile was determined to be rewarded for his loyalty with aplomb position in the new government to get big money you have to have big jobs and the biggest jobs of all are being in the government advising the king being on his Council and that's what George Savile did he actually rose through the peerage from being Angelus and nothing more to being the Marquess of Halifax which is the last bit of the peerage below a Duke and financially the family became massively wealthy yeah they were raking in about six seven thousand quid a year which was millions in present-day money and so when the cash started to come and all of this I'm assuming got bigger and grander yes it keeps getting bigger and grander for a hundred years so they hit the jackpot in the 1670 1680s and the 1740s they still buying property and the property they buy includes your pig farm agree to what then happens throughout the rest of history if you like without a good cultural and well it could have gone on forever and we're not the Great Depression of the 1930s which kicks the bottom out of the agricultural market along with most other markets so 1938 the last Lord Savile to live here sells up sells the house sells the content sells off the land so that's farewell to the saddles the connection with Rufford here is cut first note for such a humble piece of land are that it's the humble piece of land that in deals and the great house behind us which is a ruin 73 years after the Savile's were forced to sell David and Judith another proud owners of the pig barn back on site I find David's directon operations there's a lot of old timber of course when we trying to pick out the old and then weave in a wall that's leaning and we're gonna knock it down the unstable wall on the left-hand side of the courtyard has to come down but it will be rebuilt to look exactly the same reusing as many of the original bricks as possible three little pigs are the bit of piggery I've got a kind of huff and puff and blow the door thank you no it's not bad for an architect without everything [Music] you know sometimes things have just got to come down to be restored properly again that's amazing there there's no mortar on them at all as we sift through and stack up the good bricks I get a chance to have a proper look at the foundations of this part of the barn and it's not a pretty sight so you've got a bit of a bit of hard standing concrete there solid slab for the pigs walking on and all the agricultural stuff underneath it just like a heavily gravel look just release this just a loose film and then underneath that you've got some bricks and a little bit of concrete down here but really it's just not a proper foundation at all 3/4 inches of concrete that's it so all that weight over the years has just been pushing down down down on the tiny strip of concrete so that's why the walls being buckling away really because but that is terrible it really it's one of the things when you take on an agricultural building I mean look down here but this is another example of what they've used granite setts but that's as a rock hard yeah go ahead sir yeah which says to me that at some point if there was stable it was brick and everything kept your own here and Easter's gone mr. farmers gone you know what those sets you know what they're really hard tough and durable let's make a foundation out of them but you're right there and it's just use whatever you can find this part of the building we'll need a new concrete foundation to stabilize it before anything can be rebuilt elsewhere the mortar between the bricks has degraded and the entire building needs to be repotted some of the bricks have also been frost damage that need to be completely replaced every single basically you know the gloves you just want yeah turn it round it's a good tip actually it looks much the attention to detail on this project is impressive at the moment the funds for this restoration are coming from the lawn that David's friend gave him the only way of paying this back is by selling their old home in 19th century farmhouse which they fought 30 years ago this is very very plush this isn't it rather nice I'm quite impressed yes well you wouldn't have been when you saw it originally did have been just up your street because the windows were all smashed the front door just you just push Leigh talking good it was rotten and the whole building was ready for demolition what's the situation with the sale because you need the so much place well that we need to sell it yet when I'm selling it yet but it with the sell you know the property market back at the moment we drop the cut in the price dramatically and we are intended opted some more how has it been on the market for well it's never been promoted on the market properly this is the thing we just popped in an alien sound locally and left it with him now I'm taking it over and gonna actually do that because obviously that was my job for years so I'm now going to actually do the marketing and get pushed on with him you were severe and agent was your job 25 years yeah some properties yes absolutely there's something in by this house it's only cattle when they turn them this house has eight bedrooms and a spread over three floors so while perfect for a growing family it's now completely unsuitable especially for Judith who has arthritis and find the stairs difficult you've got lovely house point I'm assuming that you're selling it because it's it's too big and you want to be on one level doneyou yes that's their reason yeah this house needs to sell this is my biggest biggest fear you wish I'm sure it's yours as well I don't think you how are you feeling about that apprehensive I suppose David is quite confident that it will go it will have to go because we can't move in so it does she's just an anxiety over the autumn work continues the wall I helped demolish has been rebuilt on new foundations and the concrete's lavas been laid and what will be then the kitchen dining room but by the new year the weather has turned the rooms are on but because this building is so exposed than the flat not an ocean landscape it's been battered by the wind and rain it's been three months since I was last on site morning dinners morning George I do it it's a bit windy today I know what and wet you still not fully win the water tight you've got the windows no no unfortunately my friend whose companies run for 71 years and a great friend of their family I've sung at his father's funeral that's our friend that we are and he went out for business six seven weeks ago oh yes anyway what we did I get into it to the receivers and I said to look the wood in the in the shop is waste as far as you're concerned but to me it's Windows who agreed to figure then for the wood and the workshop yeah then I got older the to join this so I got the to join there's in the shop at the moment put in the windows together you have actually kept the whole thing together that's what state of the nation at the moment is because people haven't done that and if people's out to do that we're gonna get back on our feet and I mean the thing is this put us back by what four or five six weeks on yeah but you know that's it isn't it David's always upbeat but this delay looks a lot more serious than he's letting on according to his original 22 week schedule he should be completed by next month inside there has been progress but I'm disappointed to see that despite my advice David has opted for flat low ceilings what I thought you should have done was lift the whole thing I agree with it followed the slope of the roof but what they've done is just kind of lifted up the horizontal today gonna look a bit higher but not anyway it's a little fine if you did a little sketch and said I want to like that no I didn't do good enough little sketch doing the job for myself again it was a quick and that was it oh I see what you mean off they went and when they came back then got what I meant my fault my fault nobody else's this to me seems like a lost opportunity and I don't quite understand why that wasn't done unfortunately it's now too expensive to change but the real problem here isn't the ceiling height or the delay while they wait for the window frames it seems that David's old house which has been on the market for 12 months now remains on soles so it's got no way of repaying the friend who loaned him the money for the bills Jomon me asking them when's the deadline that you could repair that long there isn't the deadline there isn't no you don't have to pay no no there's no deadline it's it's lent on the basis of when we finish this we should move in or if we can't sell ours we should have to sell this instead great in fact I didn't know that no no you didn't well we believe were meant to come and live here and that'll work out I think that there's higher hands in this and ours winter in Nottinghamshire has been harsh this year and progress at the pig barn has been slow David and Judith were originally hoping to be in by February but the building is still open to the elements and at this rate will be a struggle to get it ready for the new deadline David and Judith's 50th wedding anniversary in June thankfully when I show up on site it's a hive of activity [Music] the glass is finally being fitted and the new frames where the big barn doors used to be are about AG when morning demonic your big deer today yes the arch day today they very important to clear the job in there it's lovely good to think when you're standing here absolutely just look at all the way through the bill you can look from her living room throw a living room and this is what the and we don't have an over here yeah I'm gonna have an oak staircase to match the oak up above this will look amazing I mean there'll be some way to stand and single there and like a minstrels gallery the custom-made Oak timber frames have been a long time coming but it's been worth the wait as they transform this agricultural building is that Alright to lift it back out the seeking trim the top meant although the frame is perfectly straight the brick arch itself isn't true [Music] but what happens is beneath movement in a little structure it always looks for the weakest points and the weakest point in this building is where this massive arches because you've only got that little bit of brickwork above so the whole buildings been pushed out and pushed out over the years some nothing straight at all and that's why the guys are cutting the brickwork out so the timber frame will fit slowly but surely the pig barn is being restored but David and Judith still have the anxiety of their old house not being sold despite David's best efforts at marketing there are still more taggers and if they can't sell it the whole move is in jeopardy luckily they've been supported by the family who are the main reason behind this project today grandchildren Victoria Sebastian and Alex am walking in and it seems that granddad David has been teaching the kids a few magic tricks tell the budget inspired by Granderson that was good you did give me a pound but didn't David's daughter Philippa has wanted her parents to live closer for a long time I wish we'd have found the bomb 10 years earlier because really 74 and 75 I would like to have seen them settled in and not having to move again but we didn't find it 10 years earlier we found it now so we'll do it now and what you think the future holds for mom and dad living snot close to you oh I hope a peaceful retirement maybe not no but a bit of peace and quiet to watch the grandchildren continue to grow as they are doing very quickly and I hope they'll be very happy in the house having found out about the pig bonds colorful aristocratic connections and I want to know what life was like for those who actually lived in laboured here but it was part of a busy working farm the law Edmonson had been owned by the Savile since 1740 up until the mid 19th century there were no buildings there as the name suggests it was mainly common land used for grazing this 1798 soil map of Nottingham sure tells us why the pink strip represents an area known as the north of Trent clare district a heavy waterlogged marshland poor quality for farming and Edmonton is right slap in the middle but change was just around the corner since 1700 the agricultural revolution had been transforming farming methods one of the most important technological developments was improvements to drainage systems new improved clay pipes could be laid just beneath the surface of a field that would drain into a main drain and then off to a ditch by 1860 the Savile's have used this new method to drain thousands of acres on their estate and build many new farms one of which was Edmonton common farm dr. Nicholas Verdun lecturer in nineteenth-century agricultural history at Sheffield Hallam University is meeting me at Bromley house library and Nottingham to see what we can find out about the first tenant farmers well here we've got the census enumerators books from 1861 to 1911 and from these we can pull out quite a lot of interesting material about the family and who they're employing and the household relations and so on so if we start with 1861 this is where the farm and the family first appear and it's being farmed by Samuel Richardson he's the head of the household he's 33 years of age and it tells us that the farm is 166 acres employing two men and one laborer at a decent size form compared to others in the area it's it's a fairly typical kind of middling sized farm it would have been a mixed farm so it would have been livestock and arable as well and with these kind of tenant farmers quite affluent men was business good on the farm well in 1861 this is the height this is the Golden Age of English agriculture so so they're they're joining farming at a boom time and you know we can surmise that they're doing pretty well in the 1860s however when we get to the 1870s we're getting floods of cheaper imports from the Americas the Canadian Prairies cheap meats from Argentina in New Zealand and so on so the world is becoming a smaller place and things are being transported around and we were important so much more yeah all this foreign competition hit hard in the last three decades of the 19th century many small family farms and tenant farmers went bankrupt but the Richardson's managed to hang on and by the time we get to the 1911 census Joseph Samuels brother had taken over we can see it's still very much a family-run farm Josephus in his 70s what we can see from this is actually the younger generation of the family are actually taking over the work of the farm and we can see the son Theo Otis William Richardson you see it describes in his working on farm farmer's son yeah Mary Anne Richardson age 30 farmer's daughter poultry and for farms like this it was important that to keep their heads above water that they utilized the family labor save costs yep and they diversified they've gone into poultry by the early part of the 20th century there's a lot of urban demand for cheeses white meats and so on and while still keeping the arable crops on the farm as well so the Richardson's were connected with this piece of land and this area for quite some time yes yes 1861 to 1911 and we know they're still there in the 1940s they've weathered the high points and the low points along those decades I've managed to track down the descendants of the Richardson's of Egmont and common farm I'm George nice to say how here David Waddell and his son Sam still live in farm in the area so these two characters these two brothers Simon and Joseph I'm desperate and knows much about them and the farm and their connection to the farm as possible but I've never seen a picture of them have you got a shot we have yes there we go so I've got the Richardson brothers I've got Samuel Richardson to the top there Samuel we've got Joseph Richardson here that's real great what did you have any idea of what they were like as kind of characters got this piece here that's about Joseph Richardson for more than 30 years Joseph and his family have attended the services at Edmondson he is greatly respected by his landlord Lord Savile and every year when our late King visited roofer Darby mr. Richardson was entrusted to supply his majesty with farm produce yeah look check this out this is presented to s Richardson which is Samuel all right for the best crop of sweet turnips drawn on the Rufford estate in the 1871 that was an impressive yes I'm quite proud of that that's my family heirloom in 1938 the Richardson's bought the farm from their former landlord the Savile estate but sadly the family couldn't make it pay and only eight years later they were forced to sell all right this is the sales particulars literally everything being sold off sale to commence a 1pn promptly 16th of July 1946 instead of drawing if the phone no yes that's the bounce that's a drawing done in that 21 yes there's 7,000 live 21 this is what they are converting and gonna go to and that is fantastic back at the pig barn work on the inside has slowed down but outside the landscaping has begun David and Judith have always planned to pave or gravel the entrance courtyard but I'm hoping to inspire them and take their ideas a step further like the pig barn the smithy five miles away is an l-shaped collection of farm buildings first converted in the Andes that was refurbished in 2009 by the honor architect who won a design award one of the things that I wanted you to see more than anything was the courtyard garden because it's very enclosed quite tranquil I think this is a far more beautiful use of outside space where the cars are kept out of view - one for me it's very smart but irrespective of the style when the reasons I wanted you to save us about there being a greater level of soft landscaping because yeah this is dominantly south-facing as well and you wanna be sitting outside lovely sunlight mixed in your car over yeah but we won't sit out at the front we don't think there's that oh we will evaluate yes the garden has been cleverly designed so that even in winter there's plenty of interest and the other tectors made sure that it's easily accessed from every room very well the difference that makes no difference yeah yeah just opens up inside to the outside and what that doesn't as an architectural principle it makes actually a small footprint of a building feel like it's a bigger volume perhaps solutely yeah I'm getting converted again in this house the bedrooms are at the back so that the main living rooms at the front get maximum light and then inside what I think is great is the height of the ceiling yeah I mean we've got the improved high well we haven't got this effect which is really still burned and they've actually created a separate kind of snow Glavine room if you like on the other side fee so there is a little bit of privacy from the open plan the snug has the same one and a half story ceiling height is the kitchen dining room this is just a very simple single sliding door yeah you know it doesn't necessarily have to be the big move no big door it's about all of these living kitchen dining spaces yeah all open and out and yeah we're all that's fantastic self there some ideas yeah that's exactly what you've got yes I like bringing the garden inside I wish we hadn't done what you said in our kitchen and our living room instead of that little bit of a an improvement I wish we'd done what you said because this doesn't give a real sense of space which I like the water feature down the middle look I can walk on water and again yeah [Music] back at the pig barn work has come to a standstill first fix electrics are in but David's been shopping around for quotes for the plumbing and plastering and so far they've all been too expensive undaunted David and Paul his builder have decided to push on with a smaller job the joinery for the main staircase they're taking a piece of salvaged oak to the same workshop that made the big art store frames so that will make the spindles for the staircase square spindles Paul's worked out the depth of it and so forth and worked out anomaly can you get out of it poorly right about 40 spins after that one piece of oak it takes three men to operate this machinery safely four if you count David overseeing things [Music] spindle number one pole at the first shot that though dad was a carpenter enjoying it and from being sort of four or five I used to go in the jointer shot me used to let me watch and my favorite smell in the world the newly mown grass and newly cook wood it just like me going back to my childhood that was brilliant it's tuned and as planned David and Judith are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary surrounded by family and friends [Music] but instead of being in the barn as they'd hoped the party has been held across the road at their daughter Philip as house tours family is everything and it's just a privilege to have everybody together even though it's not finished they can't resist showing off what they hope will be their future home we got to get here this is a tea thing can't wait it's been 16 months since I first came to the pig barn back then I was greeted by a tumbledown shell that had been neglected for years but now it's been transformed [Music] you will this looks great well looks fantastic out here how do you feel about the pebbles I was really worried that it was gonna feel like the kind of block pave your driveway and it's all gonna be bit too hard and too heavy and I think with the landscape and that you've planned those yes actually what you said about doing that early doesn't the restored brickwork blends in perfectly with the old I remember helping to demolish that wall that's now been seamlessly rebuilt yeah it looks like it's been there for a hundred years that little bit what do you think Judith plants superb I never thought it would turn out to be like that from dark and dirty peg barn to an open light-filled space the transformation is extraordinary but I can't help noticing that it's not finished so you're not quite back when the space is absolutely lovely the amount of light yeah come on through that doorway and large works absolutely perfect yeah there's no you were able to look all the way through it from one side all the way to the other right I mean it's completely connected to the landscape yeah yeah you must be really pleased with it yeah okay great till it comes to Curtin England all the joinery work everywhere is magical I love the simplicity of the balustrade yeah at the gallery level fantastic timber truss every spindle has come out of one piece of oh that's for dozens yeah and the strings of the staircase that's another piece of oak the mistake is is really really beautiful and it didn't spoil the lonely - I think that adds to it as a feature to the lounge it's the first time a benefit the gallery to walk where that links the two spare bedrooms allows you to appreciate the original roof timbers and the unique features of the old threshing barn but David and Judith have preserved that fantastic walking over here beside yeah this room is huge the single-story parts of the building are painted out which is a great space and ready for the fitting of the bathroom and kitchen this would be a cracking kitchen when it's all done it will there's a dark financial cloud hanging over this restoration because David and Judith still haven't saw their old house they've run out of money to complete the pig barn and they're unable to pay off the loan the future is uncertain it's literally coming down to well which I'm you know what the markets are you mean living yes I'm glad David said that because our brought along a little something to make them feel at home I bet you we got pigs on string gift a little mini gift from me to you to celebrate for a lot the house foreman come on sir [Music] Georgian Mildred perfect Oh bless you that's brilliant you can't have the pig bottom of our pigs farmer George [Laughter] [Music] that's been a amazing year-and-a-half read yes that yes a bit yes those pigs better be alive the next time I come back I don't want to hear all silent in the back garden you offered me a big and sandwich congratulations on a fantastic restoration so far cheers cheers Cheers absolutely brilliant well the whole point of this project was to bring you all together with them family yeah I think we're meant to be here yeah really do cheers Cheers well done brilliant [Music] David and Judith have put all of their faith into a project that was meant to bring them even closer together with their family it's been such a labor of love to restore the small piece of agricultural history but with our previous house still not sold it's going to be some time before our brave restoration warriors can realize their dream [Music] [Music]

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Published: Fri Apr 17 2020