The roof was covered in immense Westmoreland slates.
Each piece was around eight to ten inches long, six inches or so wide and about half an inch thick.
They weighed several pounds each and had come loose. The original wooden pegs securing each slate to the roof battens had perished and the wind had just pushed them out of place. Worse to come was that unlike modern roofs, under the slate was nothing, just the plaster ceilings!
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