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Cutting thatching spars Bucknell c1900 (image)
Until about 150 years ago most houses in Shropshire had straw roofs. Here William Trow is turning hazel rods into "buckles" to peg the thatched straw down on the Old School house at Bucknell.
Photo via Pentabus Project
(For further information see "The Working Countryside 1862-1945" by Robin Hill and Paul Stamper, Swan Hill Press 1993)