"Britain has only around 60,000 thatched homes left — 0.2 percent of its housing stock. But among England’s roughly 800 thatchers, the reed-versus-straw debate provokes enormous emotion and occasional fisticuffs."

Rukmini Callimachi for The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/realestate/thatch-roof-homes-england-long-straw-tradition.html

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Diorama of an indigenous scene (1819) by Gerrit Schouten.

Source: Rijksmuseum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c4b8578a-960c-4a11-8ab2-becaad1ac77c

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Diorama of a du dance party on a plantation (1830) by Gerrit Schouten.

Source: Rijksmuseum

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/633f6439-12e5-4871-83da-131174815065

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Diorama of a Caribbean scene (before 1883) by Gerrit Schouten.

Source: Rijksmuseum

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/51dad110-7bde-43ff-8a07-0a6554192478

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Diorama of a du dance party (ca. early 1800s) by Gerrit Schouten.

Source: Rijksmuseum

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bd476195-e60a-4c4e-866c-51f35c08f657

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📍: Bridge 116, Stowell Park Bridge
ℹ️: footbridge
🗺: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.3520389966883&mlon=-1.79245772770557#map=17/51.3520389966883/-1.79245772770557
📸: Photo by Gillie… on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/61989447@N00/6888174750

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Thatching uses the rain’s angle of descent against it. The material isn’t in itself waterproof, but it guides the drops from the roof’s surface to the ground. It’s gravity judo. I watched the thatch going up on this row of cottages. It was weirdly restful.

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