1972: The man LITERALLY moving house | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

"He can't move the motorway, but he can move the cottage."

Work to improve a short section of the A1 road between London to Edinburgh means that a 17th century cottage in Digswell Hill, Hertfordshire must be demolished. The owner of the cottage, however, has other ideas. With the bulldozers trundling over the horizon, Peter Fowler is in the process of carefully dismantling his cottage piece-by-piece, hoping to reassemble the ancient building precisely as it was on a new site.

Mr Fowler has just three weeks before the bulldozers do his demolition job for him. He speaks to Nationwide reporter Brian Ash about why he feels the cottage is worth saving, and the obstacles - both practical and bureaucratic - that might put an end to his project.

Originally broadcast 23 March, 1972.





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