A MILITARY OPERATION

haron decided at the age of 17, that she wanted to restore a Georgian townhouse in Berwick. She was studying art at the time in Middlesbrough and was a great admirer of the artist LS Lowry, who holidayed in Berwick every year. ‘I actually wrote my ambition down in a diary that I found recently,’ she says. Though she did not actually visit the town until she was 40, Sharon maintained a fascination with the place and Lowry’s work