After a hard day’s work … traditional hand tools of an English Master Thatcher’s trade and craft, including a wooden mallet, secured for the night on the rear roof slope of a 17th century ironstone cottage at Chipping Warden, an historic village between Banbury and Daventry in Northamptonshire, England, UK, following the start of work to replace the top coat of 30-year-old rotting and moss-covered straw with fresh combed wheat reed.
Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, England, UK: a Master Thatcher’s wooden mallet and other traditional hand tools secured for the night on the rear roof slope of a 17th century ironstone cottage in this historic village between Banbury and Daventry, after a hard day’s work starting to replace the top coat of 30-year-old rotting and moss-covered thatch with fresh combed wheat reed.
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Location: Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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