Historic Preservation Gifts

Inventor of the Tudor spirit-level

Alderman shocked at a proposal to pull down Temple Bar

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.'

Nature versus commerce.

A tourist inadvertently destroying the place he is visiting

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

Several generations live together in Cuba

The Kitchen area of a Whitechapel Boarding House

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

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

'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.'

'Forget what?'

'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!'

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

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

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

'Anti-Graffito' worker about to erase hieroglyphics.

"I dunno...ask him."

Scot holding a heart.

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

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

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

Scot country dancing,

Architects and Engineers - Restoration of old Buildings.

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

"He's retreated into nationalism."

A sardine can combined with a cornucopia.

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.'

Welsh Lady