Heritage Conservation Gifts

"Our hobby is finding old, run-down Victorian houses and levelling them."

'Forget what?'

oh no - here comes the national trust again...

A tourist inadvertently destroying the place he is visiting

"Good riddance! They were messing up the environment."

Several generations live together in Cuba

'The new lad's collecting shells again boss.'

The Kitchen area of a Whitechapel Boarding House

"But if you leave New Orleans, you'll be just another sandwich."

Introducing Piza Island.

Sign: 'Welcome to Fernbanks. Beneath our quaint Norman Rockwell-ish exterior beats a big-box chain store heart, ready to sell out at the drop of a hat.'

'I think we're losing sight of out roots.'

Wicca Heritage Centre: Hansel and Gretel stayed here.

'You must be awfully secure in your masculinity.'

"...We've traced your lineage all the way back to a 15th-century East European Count."

'Aloha! On behalf of the tourist board may I thank you for visiting our remote and mysterious island - Have a nice day!'

"Great for worship then! Great for retail now!"

"No flash in the ancient mummy gallery."

Inventor of the Tudor spirit-level

'Anti-Graffito' worker about to erase hieroglyphics.

Scot holding a heart.

"Someday, son, all this will be yours. It'll be under water, but still ..."

"I dunno...ask him."

"Says he's one of the MacMartian Clan."

Men chopping down trees. Underground, tree roots hold hands for support.

"Don't you sometimes worry that if they do give us our stuff back we'll lose some of the sense of grievance that's so crucial to our cultural identity?"

Title page from 'The Scouring of the White Horse'.

"He's retreated into nationalism."

Scot country dancing,

Architects and Engineers - Restoration of old Buildings.

Alderman shocked at a proposal to pull down Temple Bar

Famous Time Traveller Will Live Here

'Daddy says, 'Better drowned than duffers if not duffers won't drown'. Well, let's just hope social services don't hear about this.'

"Can DNA testing really prove that George Washington was the 'Father if our Country'?"