:00:07. > :00:14.This is Gayle Mill in Yorkshire. Ten years ago, this picturesque old
:00:15. > :00:18.sawmill was a crumbling wreck. ?1.2 million later it is up and running
:00:19. > :00:23.again, and the source of pride for the locals. But not all of our
:00:24. > :00:27.wonderful heritage will have such a bright future. I will visit the
:00:28. > :00:32.largest wooden structure in Europe, close to being lost forever.
:00:33. > :00:38.This is a structural engineering masterpiece.
:00:39. > :00:44.The man who has lost a car park. And impossible restoration job.
:00:45. > :00:50.There is no budget. A building forced to relocate. And
:00:51. > :00:55.sisters united by a decaying bridge. I will be travelling across
:00:56. > :01:12.north`east and Cumbria to ask, what should we save, and why?
:01:13. > :01:18.I'm heading for Kirklinton Hall in Cumbria. For many years anyone
:01:19. > :01:25.passing this property could watch it sadly crumbling away behind the
:01:26. > :01:28.trees. This must be it. Last year, a local barrister, Christopher Boyle,
:01:29. > :01:34.stepped in to save it. But I wonder if it might be too late. This is
:01:35. > :01:46.I better go and find the man brave just the biggest project forever.
:01:47. > :01:51.I better go and find the man brave enough to take it on.
:01:52. > :01:59.Hello. Christopher? Nice to meet you. Why
:02:00. > :02:04.take on Kirklinton Hall? Why not, is the answer. I have been
:02:05. > :02:08.driving past this almost all my life am a and it has been getting
:02:09. > :02:11.progressively worse and worse. It was one of those moments, if we
:02:12. > :02:15.didn't step in it would be lost forever.
:02:16. > :02:18.Charlie don't have a look? This place has had an interesting past,
:02:19. > :02:25.hasn't it? Yes, but we find the modern lead
:02:26. > :02:28.more interesting. We had the casino, and we had the Kray Twins, and the
:02:29. > :02:36.legendary Barbara Windsor came, and all sorts of bad doings went on.
:02:37. > :02:40.Dartington Hall lived at its last days as a gambling hall. Rumours had
:02:41. > :02:44.it that farmers came from miles around to enjoy a flutter and let
:02:45. > :02:49.their hair down. It was originally built in the six DVDs in the family
:02:50. > :02:52.home, having survived two wars, and it wasn't until the 1980s began to
:02:53. > :02:59.follow part. How did it end up getting into such a state?
:03:00. > :03:06.The man who ran it as a nightclub fell foul of somebody, and possibly
:03:07. > :03:09.just creditors, and he literally upped sticks and went. Watford
:03:10. > :03:16.through that door, and was never seen again. Wonderful tales of
:03:17. > :03:22.people taking wardrobes down to the river as boats. Then it gets
:03:23. > :03:28.progressively derelict thereafter. What argument do with this?
:03:29. > :03:32.This is the 17th`century part of the house, and the intention is to
:03:33. > :03:37.restore that part as close as reasonable to the 16 80s original
:03:38. > :03:43.appearance. How much will you have to spend?
:03:44. > :03:49.There is no budget. There can be no budget.
:03:50. > :03:52.Restoring Kirklinton Hall back to its original appearance is trickier
:03:53. > :03:55.than it may sound. The place is a mishmash, with every generation
:03:56. > :04:02.tinkering with it, particularly the Victorians, who just didn't think
:04:03. > :04:07.the building was grand enough. He twiddles we saw Victorian, we
:04:08. > :04:11.want to reopen these wonderful Windows.
:04:12. > :04:14.Christopher has not been able to find any pictures of the house
:04:15. > :04:18.before the Victorians meddled with the. You may want to restore a piece
:04:19. > :04:21.of Cumbria's history, but with no original plans are images, how will
:04:22. > :04:25.he achieve it? Any other clues out there?
:04:26. > :04:29.One thing I would like to see but haven't had chance to crack down is
:04:30. > :04:33.a painting which was given to the land agent in the 1930s by the last
:04:34. > :04:39.Mr Kirklington and the place was being sold. Apparently it shows the
:04:40. > :04:44.building before the Victorian windows came on.
:04:45. > :04:52.This might be key for you. Absolutely. It might
:04:53. > :04:55.Christopher is passionate about saving is building for its
:04:56. > :04:58.architectural beauty, that is why he is why he's keen on getting the
:04:59. > :05:02.details right. This is very much one man's passion. If it wasn't for
:05:03. > :05:06.Christopher, Kirklinton Hall may have been lost forever. Our heritage
:05:07. > :05:10.relies on us to make choices, but how do we decide what to keep? What
:05:11. > :05:17.buildings are important to save, why?
:05:18. > :05:22.Gayle Mill was a finalist in the BBC's Restoration series in 2004. It
:05:23. > :05:25.was the last working sawmill in the orchard deals, but it closed down in
:05:26. > :05:30.1980s when the business was no longer viable. For local people, the
:05:31. > :05:34.mill is in important part of local history and identity. Didn't want to
:05:35. > :05:38.save the building, they wanted to run it as a working mill. They
:05:39. > :05:43.wanted to keep traditional methods and skills alive.
:05:44. > :05:45.I would love to see water coming down there, and see that turbine
:05:46. > :05:52.swinging and everything going again.
:05:53. > :05:55.After a nationwide campaign to save the mill, they were successful in
:05:56. > :06:00.winning Heritage Lottery Fund Bing. Ten years on, I am eating Mark Allen
:06:01. > :06:05.of Gayle Mill trust to see how they are doing. Do you have a future, is
:06:06. > :06:09.it sustainable? Yes it is, we ran it as a commercial
:06:10. > :06:15.sawmill. We supply timber to local businesses. We supplemented with
:06:16. > :06:19.some grants. Things like children's education, so we bring kids around
:06:20. > :06:23.the mill. The difficulty is to do with volunteers. Is difficult to
:06:24. > :06:27.attract them, and we use volunteers to do everything around the mill.
:06:28. > :06:32.One volunteer who was not difficult to attract is Tony, who has a deeply
:06:33. > :06:36.personal connection to the mill. High, Tony. What an amazing bit of
:06:37. > :06:41.kit. We are very proud of this bit of
:06:42. > :06:49.machinery to stop it is the last bit of machinery we restored. We did a
:06:50. > :06:55.lot of work on it. The mill had gone into disrepair. Gayle Mill trust
:06:56. > :06:57.came along, and we took over to restore all the machinery and get
:06:58. > :07:00.the mill back to working like it is today.
:07:01. > :07:04.By leaving it was important to save this?
:07:05. > :07:08.I had an interest because I was the last apprentice to serve here. It
:07:09. > :07:12.was great to come back and give your place up and going, not just for
:07:13. > :07:16.myself but for future generations. I nice to be back doing it again?
:07:17. > :07:24.I get a lot of pleasure out of it. You're still not getting paid
:07:25. > :07:35.Western? I'm still getting paid. You can have
:07:36. > :07:51.some practice on the one upstairs. Ready to go?
:07:52. > :08:04.Let's have a look? It'll look nice.
:08:05. > :08:10.All that power is just coming off the water? It is amazing. The cat
:08:11. > :08:13.flap that is, it's brilliant. There certainly seems to be an appetite
:08:14. > :08:19.for what goes on here, and it seems to work well enough to ensure the
:08:20. > :08:25.mill will be well looked after. But what happens when support from the
:08:26. > :08:28.local community is not enough? Union Bridge connects England and
:08:29. > :08:33.Scotland cross the River Tweed. At the time of been built it was a
:08:34. > :08:37.largest suspension bridge in the world. After years of neglect, it
:08:38. > :08:41.has found its way onto the English Heritage at Risk register. Should we
:08:42. > :08:46.save it? Although it is no longer a trade route, it is still a vital
:08:47. > :08:53.link for the people who live here. I've come to Chain Bridge Honey Farm
:08:54. > :08:59.to find out why. Hello. I find you. Header? Lovely to see you. What goes
:09:00. > :09:02.on at the honey farm? We've got roughly 1500 hives of
:09:03. > :09:09.these. We do the processing back here, so we have my sister cutting
:09:10. > :09:17.out honeycombs. Hello. It looks lovely.
:09:18. > :09:23.In the readme honeycomb before? Just delving. It does contain wax, but it
:09:24. > :09:29.is very tasty. My goodness.
:09:30. > :09:37.The declining state of the bridge is a real concern here.
:09:38. > :09:40.The bridge is our access to the other side of the border. A lot of
:09:41. > :09:44.our visitors access the farm from the bridge and come from the
:09:45. > :09:48.Scottish side. You are on the other side of the
:09:49. > :09:52.bridge and you? I live on the Scottish side,
:09:53. > :09:58.France's lives in English side. What will happen if it closes?
:09:59. > :10:03.Who knows? You must be pleased it is on the at
:10:04. > :10:07.risk register? Yes, I suppose I would prefer it to
:10:08. > :10:11.be in better shape. It can't be ignored now it is on the register.
:10:12. > :10:15.You can see itself a kind of rust that is on it now and these patches
:10:16. > :10:22.that have appeared. It would be great if they could be fixed up.
:10:23. > :10:27.What if it were to get to such a state can be used by cars?
:10:28. > :10:29.It would affect people on both sides in terms of getting to jobs, getting
:10:30. > :10:34.to schools and getting about generally. The fact is, a committee
:10:35. > :10:37.has been created because of this bridge, even though it is Scotland
:10:38. > :10:40.on one side and England on the other.
:10:41. > :10:44.Here we have a fabulous old Bridge, still in use and vital to the
:10:45. > :10:48.locals... Yet, despite being on that at risk register, there is no
:10:49. > :10:52.guarantee they will get the cash to save it. What hope is there for a
:10:53. > :11:03.striking bit of our heritage that has lost its purpose completely?
:11:04. > :11:07.The Dunston Staithes were built at the end of the 19th century. They
:11:08. > :11:08.were used to shift up to five and half million tonnes of coal a year
:11:09. > :11:16.from trains onto boats. In with mines closing all over the
:11:17. > :11:20.region, the Dunston Staithes' fate was sealed. We have been abandoned
:11:21. > :11:26.and are now in a state of disrepair. Martin has been competing
:11:27. > :11:30.for ten years to save them. I want to know why.
:11:31. > :11:36.The Dunston Staithes is probably the biggest timber structure in Europe.
:11:37. > :11:42.This is iconic, it's an emblem of the industry of the north`east.
:11:43. > :11:48.Yes, but it is defunct. It is looking for a new purpose. The
:11:49. > :11:52.first project is to get people back onto the structure. Busy promenade,
:11:53. > :12:01.should come to enjoy it. It is a peer, on the city.
:12:02. > :12:06.Even though it is ugly and industrial it is worth preserving?
:12:07. > :12:12.This is a structural engineering masterpiece. It carried trains fully
:12:13. > :12:16.laden, temples at the side of it. It is a real icon of the time.
:12:17. > :12:22.You only have his lot of money pledged so far stop it is not
:12:23. > :12:25.certain this will happen, is it? It is not. It has been on the at
:12:26. > :12:31.risk register for a decade. My job is to get it off that register. Yes,
:12:32. > :12:35.we need money and investment. I must say, the Dunston Staithes or
:12:36. > :12:43.sorry state. And to be fantastic to see them in their heyday?
:12:44. > :12:52.UNESCO is policing work of national UNESCO is policing work of national
:12:53. > :12:54.significance. She photographed the Dunston Staithes back when they were
:12:55. > :12:56.working, and today she will print one of those images for the first
:12:57. > :13:01.time. This is the first print ever from
:13:02. > :13:21.that negative, I have not seen it before.
:13:22. > :13:26.Here it comes. Hello, how are you? I can't wait to
:13:27. > :13:28.see this picture. Do you have it ready?
:13:29. > :13:34.I do. My word. It's just so evocative of
:13:35. > :13:39.the time, isn't it? Do you know this?
:13:40. > :13:44.I have memories of it as a child, but I can't really recall it
:13:45. > :13:52.working. There. These look great, also. Is this the Dunston Staithes,
:13:53. > :13:56.also? You captured when it was working. Is not working any more.
:13:57. > :14:00.Should we keep it? My view is that these structures are
:14:01. > :14:03.the real monuments to human endeavour that you can never
:14:04. > :14:10.replicate. The cranes have gone now, the speed with which the
:14:11. > :14:15.landscape has been sanitised, to me it is robbing us of the sense of who
:14:16. > :14:21.we really were. Who we are. You captured in 2`D. Do we really
:14:22. > :14:27.need a 3`D version? I believe so, absolutely. A
:14:28. > :14:30.photograph is a way of drawing attention to something that is
:14:31. > :14:35.magnificent, but it is never the real thing. I could take a nice
:14:36. > :14:41.picture of you know, but it would not replace your beautiful face,
:14:42. > :14:51.would it eyes`mac sweet talk. I'm not an ancient monument yet.
:14:52. > :14:55.One day, give it time. You could make a strong case for saving all of
:14:56. > :15:01.our heritage. But that takes money and lots of it. So who decides the
:15:02. > :15:09.fate of the structures? And what do they base those decisions on? The
:15:10. > :15:13.largest source of money to pay for restoration comes from the Heritage
:15:14. > :15:18.Lottery Fund. Without its support, most large`scale project would not
:15:19. > :15:22.stand a chance. This man is the man holding the purse strings in the
:15:23. > :15:28.north`east. What sort of project you spend money on? We're spending 1.4
:15:29. > :15:32.million on the restoration of the building, but also the
:15:33. > :15:38.interpretation and access to the building for the wider public. So
:15:39. > :15:46.this is a classic bit of heritage? Yes, this is the medieval core of
:15:47. > :15:50.Newcastle. How do you choose what to put your money into and whatnot?
:15:51. > :15:56.Each application is thoroughly assessed to make sure it has
:15:57. > :16:05.sufficient money, it is a critical part. We have seen Gayle Mill and
:16:06. > :16:10.Dunston Staithes, where are they at? Gayle Mill is delivered and
:16:11. > :16:15.volunteers are running the building. With Dunston Staithes, it is a
:16:16. > :16:18.different situation, they are working towards the full
:16:19. > :16:23.application. Once we get that application, we will determine
:16:24. > :16:29.whether or not we will fund the project. Difficult choices. It is
:16:30. > :16:34.very difficult. The funds we have our under pressure at the moment. We
:16:35. > :16:40.have to make sure it is actually going to be sustainable for the
:16:41. > :16:46.future. You would save a castle like this, wouldn't you? It is a
:16:47. > :16:51.no`brainer. But for the Victorians, this bit of history stood right in
:16:52. > :16:55.the way of progress. A new railway line new lease `` newly resulted in
:16:56. > :17:11.the demolition of this castle. At Hexham train station, they find a
:17:12. > :17:19.compromise that the Victorians would never have considered. This stable
:17:20. > :17:24.was originally built for the horses that carried goods on and off the
:17:25. > :17:28.trains. In 2011, it was about to be threatened for a new development.
:17:29. > :17:38.Hexham Civic Society stepped in. tried very hard to keep the building
:17:39. > :17:43.here. It is being painstakingly dismantled and taken away. One day,
:17:44. > :17:49.the stable could be built at Beamish Open Air Museum. Everything has been
:17:50. > :17:54.counted, it will all go back up as it was here, which is magical and
:17:55. > :18:00.wonderful. Though the team are doing a fantastic job, they are not
:18:01. > :18:08.leaving anything to chance. The staircase? Yes, that has gone up
:18:09. > :18:13.this morning. And the window frames? What about the fireplace? The
:18:14. > :18:19.fireplace is on that palette there, actually. I am looking at the bricks
:18:20. > :18:27.and wondering how it will all go back together. It will be a hell of
:18:28. > :18:33.a jigsaw puzzle. By the end of the day, every trace of this building
:18:34. > :18:37.will be gone. My heart jumped into my mouth every time we came into
:18:38. > :18:43.Hexham to see if the building was still there. Then came the day when
:18:44. > :18:48.it wasn't. Like today, it is gone. But I have to hang on to the good
:18:49. > :18:55.thing that it will be read built someday. Down in Beamish, where
:18:56. > :19:03.hopefully I will still be there to go and enjoy it. Moving a building
:19:04. > :19:07.like this seems like an extraordinary thing to do. I want to
:19:08. > :19:15.meet the man who has promised to put it back up. He is the assistant
:19:16. > :19:20.director of Beamish, the museum has forked out over ?80,000 on what can
:19:21. > :19:26.only be described as a fairly ordinary building. Why do we want to
:19:27. > :19:36.keep the Hexham stable? It is special. It is special by its very
:19:37. > :19:43.normal nurse of a lost world. That simple building was so typical of so
:19:44. > :19:51.many towns, where the horse did everything. That lost world is
:19:52. > :19:58.carried on, and it has run out of luck. When will we see it in one
:19:59. > :20:11.piece? It will depend on tyre Leon money. `` entirely on money. It will
:20:12. > :20:14.be a few years, but it will happen. It seems almost unbelievable that a
:20:15. > :20:18.building can be dismantled and rebuilt in this way. But look at
:20:19. > :20:26.Beamish town, proof that it really is possible. Where has this all come
:20:27. > :20:31.from? All over the region, that is the simple truth, as it should do.
:20:32. > :20:40.To your right, we have got some stuff in from Morecambe. And this is
:20:41. > :20:44.from Gateshead. What is this? It is one way of preserving or conserving
:20:45. > :20:50.buildings. They would otherwise have gone to landfill. If you cannot
:20:51. > :20:56.leave it where it is, for whatever reason, putting them together where
:20:57. > :21:01.they can make an attraction and sure the people of the region are
:21:02. > :21:04.history, that is worthwhile. Having seen the beautifully restored
:21:05. > :21:09.buildings, I am curious to find out what the stable looks like now. I
:21:10. > :21:14.don't think I have ever seen a building look like this before,
:21:15. > :21:19.neatly packed. Daniel, hello. How are you? This is the strangest
:21:20. > :21:31.thing, taking a building apart bit by brick `` brick by brick. Yes,
:21:32. > :21:37.usually they just get pulled down. It will have a different history.
:21:38. > :21:45.People will be happy that it has been rebuilt. A lot of people were
:21:46. > :21:51.upset. What will you do if you leave one brick right at the end? We won't
:21:52. > :21:57.build. It may not be a remarkable building, but should we be losing a
:21:58. > :22:01.piece of history for what will become car parking spaces? Should we
:22:02. > :22:09.save buildings should preserve the identity of a place. `` to preserve
:22:10. > :22:14.the identity of the place. Owen Luder is a man who knows a lot about
:22:15. > :22:23.regret, and the loss of something that should have been treasured. My
:22:24. > :22:30.last sight of it was when they were knocking it down. That was the last
:22:31. > :22:36.view I had of the car park. It was gone. Owen is the architect of the
:22:37. > :22:42.Trinity Square shopping centre and car park. It was seen by everybody
:22:43. > :22:52.crossing the Tyne Bridge and in the classic film Get Carter. It was
:22:53. > :23:01.demolished in 2010, after a heated campaign to save it.
:23:02. > :23:12.Perfect timing. Nice to meet you. Lovely to be back in Gateshead. Is
:23:13. > :23:19.it, because it is all change, isn't it? Where is your car park now? The
:23:20. > :23:25.car park would have been soaring above our heads. It was used for a
:23:26. > :23:31.decade having fallen into a state of disrepair. Why did he think his
:23:32. > :23:39.building was worth saving? What was the car park? An increasing number
:23:40. > :23:47.of people think it was a cheese was one. If it had not gone by then it
:23:48. > :23:51.would be kept, because opinion is beginning to turn around. We have to
:23:52. > :24:00.decide which of the buildings we really ought to keep. In heritage
:24:01. > :24:05.terms, it was an iconic building of the 60s. But we didn't keep it. And
:24:06. > :24:15.this is the development replacing it. Everybody seems to like it. Is
:24:16. > :24:22.huge Tesco. This is the building of now, that was the building of the
:24:23. > :24:28.past. And how will we feel about it in years to come? Although they
:24:29. > :24:32.decided to knock the car park down, and it vanished from Gateshead's
:24:33. > :24:42.skyline, you can still find traces of it if you know where to look.
:24:43. > :24:54.Here it is. Box 505, cutting`edge designs from the 60s, from a
:24:55. > :24:58.building that is lost forever, to one that is being saved by the skin
:24:59. > :25:03.of its teeth. Back at Kirklinton Hall, preparations are being made to
:25:04. > :25:06.restore it to its former glory. Christopher Boyle are still on the
:25:07. > :25:10.hunt for clues to its original appearance. He thinks he may finally
:25:11. > :25:15.have the answers he needs. I have discovered where the painting is
:25:16. > :25:23.that shows the front of the house. And that is vital, because we do not
:25:24. > :25:29.have any image of it, so it is going to be really important evidence.
:25:30. > :25:37.Particularly for my theory about the right`hand tower. There isn't any
:25:38. > :25:41.evidence just by looking at it. Hopefully this painting is going to
:25:42. > :25:47.be Impressionist? That would be unfortunate. I hope this painting
:25:48. > :26:01.will live up to Christopher's expectations. Hello. Christopher,
:26:02. > :26:11.come in. Nice to see you. Where is this painting? Come through here and
:26:12. > :26:19.we will have a look. I have got one here of Kirklinton Hall in its
:26:20. > :26:27.heyday. Oh, fantastic. Look at that. Wow. That is interesting because
:26:28. > :26:34.that shows the bridge. And also exactly as we pictured, the little
:26:35. > :26:46.bridge. The gateposts are fab, aren't they? Are they still there?
:26:47. > :26:56.No, they're not. It is plain that the original mullions had gone by
:26:57. > :27:07.then. The two blank gables, no corners, interestingly. No fancy
:27:08. > :27:11.corners. It is a bit more simple... It is a very overgrown farmhouse,
:27:12. > :27:21.isn't it? Are you going to take the fancy stuff off? It is all part of
:27:22. > :27:28.the story, isn't it? Have you been to the house? Yes, I used to go
:27:29. > :27:34.there in my teens. It was turned into a nightclub. You had a few
:27:35. > :27:42.interesting nights there? Yes, I think all the other farmers did as
:27:43. > :27:44.well. What do you think? It is fantastic, if my grandfather was
:27:45. > :27:52.around he would be excited to see it. He might help build it.
:27:53. > :27:58.Christopher has taken on a monumental task. But he has dried,
:27:59. > :28:03.endless patience, and passion. He and his family will succeed, I
:28:04. > :28:12.think, in bringing Kirklinton Hall back to life. Every place we have
:28:13. > :28:16.been extra question, should we save it for future generations? Once it
:28:17. > :28:23.has gone, it has gone. But we cannot keep everything. Like it or not, we
:28:24. > :28:28.have to choose, and that is tough. We will find out in the next two
:28:29. > :28:36.days whether Dunston Staithes will have the cash they need. We can look
:28:37. > :28:50.back with pride at their heritage we did save or with regret.
:28:51. > :29:15.Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your 90 second update.
:29:16. > :29:18.Large parts of the UK are being battered by a powerful storm. Two
:29:19. > :29:21.people have died, thousands are without power. Dozens of severe
:29:22. > :29:24.flood warnings are in force with homes being evacuated. Your forecast
:29:25. > :29:27.your local BBC radio station. your local BBC radio station.
:29:28. > :29:28.Millions of us are going to have to work longer. The Chancellor is
:29:29. > :29:31.increasing the state pension age for work longer. The Chancellor is
:29:32. > :29:32.many people. Also in his new