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The first firefighters were recruited from tradesmen including slaters, carpenters and masons, aged 17 to 25, because they knew how buildings were constructed.

Bricklayers, masons, roofers, roof tilers, slaters, carpenters, joiners and plasterers will benefit from cheaper visas and more relaxed employment criteria under the changes.

Her dad is a roof slater and she says she loved to help him do building work when she was younger.

It has a very distinctive ‘face’, into which two large,  light green eyes are set, and a body shape similar to that of a sea slater.

It was seldom that a year passed without several visits from the plumbers, the slaters and the thatchers, to the precincts of a nunnery; and once arrived they were not easy to dislodge.