Moving house: Little old lady spent 23 years dismantling her cottage and rebuilding it 100 miles away

"For a labour of love, it was the DIY job of the century. Brick by brick, the gutsy little old lady demolished her precious home, pulling each medieval nail from its ancient oak beam.

Dressed in  workman's apron, her greying hair tucked beneath a headscarf, she single-handedly piled high the thousands of hand-made Hertford-shire peg tiles from the roof.

Huge timb-ers were loaded onto a lorry, alongside Tudor fireplaces and Elizabethan diamond leaded glass, for a rebuild that would consume the rest of her life.…"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/property/article-1185210/Moving-house-How-little-old-lady-spent-23-years-single-handedly-dismantling-cottage-brick-brick-rebuilding-100-miles-away.html

From Lew Lewandowski