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The Hairy Builder: Episode 14: Ampleforth College

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Episode 14: Ampleforth College

Ampleforth College

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Dave visits Ampleforth, one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the country.

Following the restoration of historic properties. Dave visits Ampleforth, one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the country, with an onsite monastery.

This time, Dave visits Ampleforth in North Yorkshire - one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the country, with an onsite monastery. He hangs out with the monks, helps restore the Yorkshire equivalent of Hogwarts and learns an extraordinary tale of mice and men. The school has the largest collection of Mouseman furniture in the world!

Ampleforth has many buildings designed by renowned architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and today, Dave will be working with the builders to restore art deco building Bolton House to its former glory. Once it is finished, the monks will be moving in and they visit Dave, hard at work, before whisking him off for a cider in their orchard at the end of the day.

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Dave Myers joins a construction firm restoring buildings that have made Britain great.

Dave Myers swaps his cookery for bricks and mortar as he joins a construction firm restoring buildings that have made Britain great.

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