My mother in her generation spoke about it, how the bauhinia would flower in the fields and forests and usher in Springtime. The bauhinia was coming into bloom in our hills when the Japanese invasion ...

The oldest building in Weston-super-Mare has become an even more prominent seafront landmark thanks to the installation of a new thatched roof. The new feature has been carefully constructed ...

I was brought up in a thatched cottage and know the dangers. This looks like it caught fire from the inside. I hope everyone is ok". Images shared by the fire service show the roof destroyed by the ...

A couple was 'lucky to escape alive' after a fire ripped through their thatched roof in just eight minutes, destroying their house. The fire broke out at Bob and Paula Hessian’s home ...

A dramatic picture shows the devastating aftermath of a large house fire involving thatched roofs in North Devon last week. A major response from Devon and Somerset Fire Service was called to a ...

A dramatic picture shows the devastating aftermath of a large house fire involving thatched roofs in North Devon last week. A major response from Devon and Somerset Fire Service was called to a ...

Sixteen fire crews have been sent to a blaze affecting four adjoined houses with thatched roofs. Emergency workers were first called to Low Street in Bardwell, Suffolk, at 16:43 BST. Crews have been ...

Five properties in Low Street, Bardwell were affected by the blaze, which started in a thatched roof before spreading to the neighbouring homes and resulted in the evacuation of ten or 11 people.

A new school in Ireland is training up a fresh generation of thatchers in a bid to save the country's disappearing thatched roofs, an iconic feature of the Irish landscape. In a hall in Portnoo ...

A thatched cottage was completely destroyed in a fire which ripped through the roof in eight minutes just weeks before it was due to be tiled over. The blaze took over Bob and Paula Hessian's home ...

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