Heritage Preservation Gifts

Pasadena Playhouse War

'Nowadays kiddo, we just need to herd the sheep, but my grandfather had to protect them from wolves!'

Nature versus commerce.

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

'Now, think hard about it: Do you want to be known as the one who ate the last Dodo?'

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.'

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

Introducing Piza Island.

'I want to immortalise the area in a painting before it is changes for ever.' (Artist is scooped up by a digger.)

Wicca Heritage Centre: Hansel and Gretel stayed here.

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

'You must be awfully secure in your masculinity.'

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

'Forget what?'

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

'Mary, I believe in historic preservation, too, but ... '

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

Scot holding a heart.

"Oh no! - Here comes the National Trust again!!"

'Anti-Graffito' worker about to erase hieroglyphics.

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

Inventor of the Tudor spirit-level

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

"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?"

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

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

Scot country dancing,

"I still liked it better when it was the Colosseum."

"He's retreated into nationalism."

Architects and Engineers - Restoration of old Buildings.

"'Frankenstein' is Jewish. I'm Irish on my mother's side befcause she was green, and an 'O'Houligan'..."