Re: any one know this roofing?
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Here's another example from near near me in Sussex. It's a restaurant called the Ginger Fox. Hence the additions to the roof thatch.
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From: "Cliff Rohrabacher, Esq." <rohrabacher@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, 14 Dec, 20 At 20:06
Subject: Re: [FOG] any one know this roofing?
I was unaware that thatch was still a thing. I looked up imaged of thatched roofs for Norfolk UK and yep that's what it is.
So I did some surfing and reading I'm impresses 20 - 30 years life span and 7 for the ridge? Wow. In the UK where it rains about 690 days a year?
They are more than a foot thick? I'm thinking Fire.
Interesting
Thanks for that
On 12/14/20 2:40 PM, Bean via groups.io wrote:
It will be thatch, which is done with reeds. Norfolk in the UK used to be reputed as the best thatch available in the UK. Put on by a "Thatcher" which is a dying art but still pretty strong in the UK. Thatchers would usually leave their trademark on any job they done which in a lot of cases would be a small bird or animal made out of thatch and left somewhere on the roof.
Mark.
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