Christine Adams tells the story of her aunt's determination to fight developers from destroying her cottage and moving her home brick by brick 100 miles away.
For May Savidge was determined to beat developers and planners who threatened to crush her historic cottage under a road-building project.
Long before conservation became fashionable, she decided to move her home lock, stock and barrel from busy Ware High Street in Hertfordshire to a Norfolk backwater 100 miles away.
And move it she did, in a 23-year labour of love, during which she battled the authorities, deathwatch beetles, rats and her failing health, accompanied only by her faithful dog, Sasha.
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