"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
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Working in a 1960's (?) built house today with a lot of partition walls
removed & under the plaster/render was this;
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ngewall001.jpg

Never seen the like, what the kinell is it?

There was a type of particle board made from straw as an attempt to do
something useful with a material of which there was a large surplus*. It
looked a lot like that.

* Apparently, enough to cover the M1 from London to Birmingham to a height
of several feet, which some people thought was a good suggestion.

Colin Bignell