1. Hewison, Robert. The Heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline. London: Methuen, 1987. See also Lumley, Robert. The Museum time-machine: putting culture on display. London: Routledge, 1988.Google Scholar

2. For example, at the present time in Britain the aims and priorities of English Heritage have been called into question by certain of its projects which hardly seem to be in the best interests either of local people or of conservation. See Hale, John. ‘Gentlemen versus players’. The Guardian 11th November 1989.Google Scholar

3. The Robert Opie Collection (‘Pack Age Revisited’) is at the Albert Warehouse, Gloucester Docks, Gloucester, U.K. Google Scholar

4. Lewery, A. J. Signwritten art. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1989. ISBN 0-7153-9273-5. £14.95Google Scholar

5. Home, Donald. The Great museum: the representation of history. London: Pluto Press, 1984 p. 249 Google Scholar

6. Ibid., p. 250 Google Scholar

7. The écomusèe concept, as I understand it, seeks to replace the local museum-within-walls with a collective consciousness of community heritage, an informed and affectionate sense of place in which the past is encouraged to flourish in the present and through which the whole of a place is transformed into a living museum of itself. In such a context, a local tradition of sign-writing, for example, would be nourished by appreciation, and historic examples would surely be preserved.Google Scholar

8. Home, op. cit. p. 250 Google Scholar