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Article: The past is another profit centre
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 30, 1995
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Living in the Past, the organisation that feeds on people's
nostalgia for things as they used to be, is perfectly in tune with
these Tory times of ours. But it goes even further than the Tories
dare go, according to the mastermind behind it, Graham Whitlobe.
"When I first got involved with the nostalgia industry, I was
merely restoring cottages, just to fit in with their old names. If
a cottage was called The Limes, I replanted some lime trees. If it
was called Well Cottage, I located the well and reopened it. If it
was called Station Cottage - well, it was a bit beyond me to get
railway lines reopened, but I could always install some old railway
relics.
"But all this wasn't enough for some ...