Living: The New Austerity. 

Radio and books are the new cheap thrill.

Living: The Works Progress Administration. 

Clinton Avenue Bridge on the Merritt Parkway, 

Westport, Connecticut, circa 1940.

Living: The first photograph, arguably

 taken during the 1790s by Thomas Wedgwood 

(son of Josiah and uncle of Charles Darwin).

Living: Traje de luces, or suit of lights.

Dating from the Goyesca period when 

posh Spanish blokes wore pink tights.

Living: 

Tam o' Shanter by Robert Burns.

. . . Whene'er to drink you are inclin'd,

or cutty sarks* run in your mind.

Think! ye may buy joys o'er dear—

Remember Tam o' Shanter's mare.

*short skirts

Burns Night: 25th January.

Living: Freckles and Fairisle. 

Twiggy is an Ancient Industries poster girl. 

Photograph possibly by David Bailey.

Living: Grow your own, or support your 

local farmer. It counts more than ever.

Sinking ship: Burberry (b.1856) 

moves production to Asia.

Living: 

I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes.

I, too, sing America

I am the darker brother.

They send me to eat in the kitchen

When company comes,

But I laugh,

And eat well,

And grow strong.

Tomorrow,

I'll be at the table

When company comes.

Nobody'll dare

Say to me,

"Eat in the kitchen,"

Then.

Besides,

They'll see how beautiful I am

And be ashamed--

I, too, am America.

Portrait by Winold Reiss.

Living: Sun (sun, sun, here it comes).

Living/extinct: Terence Davies' Of Time and the City. 

A documentary about Liverpool, mostly pre-Fab Four.

Living: Beef extract, created in 1870 to feed 

the French army during the Prussian conflict. 

Currently used in the Bull Shot cocktail.

Living: The Icelandic turf roof. The Vikings' 

answer to the draught problem in old houses.

Living: The B. Shackman Co., paper goods 

since 1898. Available at Ancient Industries.

Living: The D.R. Harris & Co. bone and bristle toothbrush. 

Precisely what bone and what bristle is not specified.

Extinct: The Utility Clothing Scheme, introduced 

in 1941. Although illegal and unpatriotic to add

embellishment, ribbons were necessary for morale.

Living: Sea salt from Wales. 

Halen môr gwyn a glan o Gymru.

Living: Ian Mankin, fabric woven in the Midlands.

Extinct: Richard Guyatt for Wedgwood.

Coronation mug, 1953.

Dust to dust: The proto-modern businessman, 

Josiah Wedgwood. He understood his market.

Design by Eric Ravilious, c. 1938.

Facing extinction: Wedgwood. 

Another company with great unused archives.

Stoneware teapot designed circa 1790. 

Living: The National Trust, in your garden.

Sadly not extinct: Whaling, 

a pre-historic ancient industry.

Time to celebrate the whale.