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Beaton/D/2/3/80
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GB 275 Beaton/D/2/3/80
Title
Thatching
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5p paper
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Scope and content
Typescript essay, in which Beaton laments the decline of the art of thatching in the face of modern technological developments and recalls watching the work of a group of thatchers on a neighbour's house in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire.