The Restoration Man

When an Edwardian Baptist church comes up for sale in a small Pennine village, Colin and Emma Clewes seize on their chance to turn it into a 5-bedroom family home. With only a meagre budget Colin intends to do most of the building work himself, whilst the couple juggle looking after their young family and running their own business.

When Lee Head spotted a Victorian railway station for sale in Northumberland, he saw the opportunity of a lifetime. He drew up a masterplan to fund the conversion of the main station into a family home by selling off other buildings, and saving labour costs by doing all the building work alone at weekends.

30 years after starting to restore a Georgian gazebo tower built on top of Pembroke's medieval city walls, retired businessman Bruce Woodall finally takes on the challenge of finishing it.

Restoration novices Mark Hinchliffe and Laura Rushton hatch a risky plan to convert two beautiful but crumbling church buildings into family homes. The success of the project hangs on them transforming the listed Sunday school - as all the profits from its sale are needed to turn the cavernous Victorian church into Mark and Laura's forever home.

Converting a 1930's water pumping station into a home tests a young Berkshire couple to the limit.

A Cheshire couple battle to turn an Art Deco water tower into their 6-storey "end house".

Tensions rise as a Lancashire family convert an enormous water filtration building into two homes.

oWhen businesswoman Jude McKelvey took a dilapidated 17th century threshing barn under her wing, she knew it would be a labour of love to restore it to its former glory and give her and her two boys a family home.

George returns to see the second of two historic church buildings restored in a spectacular style.

George returns to Harrogate to see how Carol and Majid Nadry have finished converting their brick water tower into their dream home.

A year and a half after Neil Worrell and Jackie Robinson moved into the old Fisherman's Church in Brixham, George returns to Devon to see how the restoration changed their lives beyond recognition.

George returns to see the finished restoration of a derelict World War II airfield control tower.

George revisits an epic Restoration Man project - a 17th century water mill in a picturesque riverside setting in Northumberland. Eight years since they took them on, Dave and Margaret Hedley have never stopped restoring the mill's enviable heritage.