Miss Savidge moves her house / Christine Adams with Michael McMahon.
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TextPublication details: London : Aurum, 2010, c2009.Description: xii, 244 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cmISBN: - 9781845135188
- 1845135180
- Lifetime in the building
- 942.61082092 22
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Nonfiction | Stratford Nonfiction | Nonfiction | 942.61 ADA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A00619663 |
Originally published in 2009 under the title: A lifetime in the building.
Includes index.
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. Now her niece, Christine Adams, who inherited May's house and completed it - at the cost of her own marriage - tells her aunt's life story from the voluminous diaries and letters she left behind.
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