Archive: Retiree rebuilds own home 100 miles away

Fifty-year-old archive footage showed a retiree rebuilding her house brick by brick in another county.

BBC programme Nationwide featured the story of May Savidge, 64, who moved her 15th Century home from Ware in Hertfordshire to Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk.

In the report, broadcast on 20 October 1975, she explained how she wanted to save the property after the council planned to knock it down to make way for a new road.

When she died in 1993, she left the house to her niece, who spent the next 15 years completing the restoration

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