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Water tower couple appeal for funds to complete renovation
Lincolnshire Echo
|July 10, 2025
A COUPLE who have spent more than four years converting a Second World War water tower into a seven-bedroom home want to "enjoy" their efforts before the husband's motor neurone disease (MND) symptoms worsen.
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Mary and Sean Davies, 57 and 55 respectively, currently live on more than an acre of land at the RAF Hospital Nocton Hall site in Lincolnshire - a now disused military hospital - after the couple purchased the 1940s water tower and its accompanying holding tank for £25,000 in 2018.
Married for 31 years, Sean, a tree and landscape officer for Newark and Sherwood District Council, and Mary, who works as a milker at a local dairy farm, started the hefty renovation job in 2021, armed with a £350,000 budget and dreams to turn it into a seven-bedroom, four-bath home.
The couple, who have five children and five grandchildren, faced hiccups along the way.
This story is from the July 10, 2025 edition of Lincolnshire Echo.
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