The tale of an extraordinary, maverick woman and her even more remarkable achievement. May Savidge lived in a half-timbered house in Hertfordshire. When the council served her with a compulsory purchase notice to make way for a roundabout, May decided she had to move – but so did the house. So she had the whole thing dismantled and shipped to the North Norfolk coast… and then spent the rest of her life rebuilding it, single-handed. Her fame spread around the world. Antiques Roadshow broadcast, unprecedentedly, two features about her house.
Speaker: Christine Adams is May’s niece, who inherited May’s house and completed it, at the cost of her own marriage, tells her aunt’s story from the voluminous diaries and letters that she left behind. She now runs a Bed and Breakfast in May Savidge’s old house in Norfolk.
