Historical Preservation Mugs

"How I deplore this senseless destruction of our historic landmarks!"

Save Thy Soul - Save Our Historical Landmarks - Save Water

Nature versus commerce.

A tourist inadvertently destroying the place he is visiting

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.'

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

'Forget what?'

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

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

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

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

Inventor of the Tudor spirit-level

'Anti-Graffito' worker about to erase hieroglyphics.

Alderman shocked at a proposal to pull down Temple Bar

Architects and Engineers - Restoration of old Buildings.

Scot country dancing,

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

A sardine can combined with a cornucopia.

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

James Russell Lowell

Notre Dame Fire

You were warned about mixed marriages!

"I remember when this was all forest..."

Archeological find in the Myanmar jungle.

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

Keeper giving Lords best position for shooting

Save the forest.

"My pappy built this shell with his bare claws. I'll be damned if some freeloader moves in."

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

"This year has been a disaster. But, my breaking point was when Apple TV+ hijacked 'It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,' away from network television."

"Have they no shame?"