THE THATCHED ROOF
Oct 30, 2020
2 minutes
WORD Jo Roberts
PICTURE
Alan Jones
efore the industrial age and the development of the slate industry, most homes in Britain would have been roofed with thatch. Some roofs were made of turf, some from wooden shingles or stone slabs, but most would have been made from thatch because particularly in rural
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