Dream house

There are women in Russian villages - and enter a burning house, and stop a galloping horse. But there are such women not only in Russian villages, such as Mae Savage from England.



After her husband died, Mai tries to find solace and gains in 1947 a dilapidated house in Hertfordshire. Having invested all their money and will make every effort, she tries to turn a dilapidated barn in the home of their dreams. Mae alone understands the craft and construction for several years, while filling his solitude and restores the house with his own hands.



The house has been renovated and life began to take the rhythm, when something unexpected happens. In 1953, the authorities decide to demolish the house lonely widow for construction of a new road. Fifteen-year struggle of May with the city council to preserve the home as useless and failed. The house, which was to have native Mae, which was only joy after the death of her husband, who had invested so much love and effort, must now be destroyed. Losing the last thing left would be tantamount to death. "I can not leave this beautiful house, and I'd rather prefer to move it and build anew than to see it destroyed," - he said in a letter May Council and has kept its word.



Recycled incredible effort necessary to disassemble the house, and again the poor woman's hands. Balka, tile, brick, nail - numbered each element of the design in accordance with the plan of the house, Mae painstakingly puts the data into a vast roster. And the house, spread out the bones, like a giant jigsaw puzzle, and now again to be assembled in a neighboring county, located more than 150 miles from the former place.
Over 23 years, brick by brick, Mei Savage endured and restores his dream in 1993, when she was almost 82 years old, death is never given to realize this dream to the end.





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