Worth preserving

My wife and I went to the museum to see three exhibits full of things that would have been lost had someone not thought to keep them, even though it probably didn't seem all that important. Old toy catalogues, schematics for abandoned designs, misprinted packaging. Photographs of roadworks. Ticket stubs. When I went on a tour of the museum's stores it was amazing all the stuff. Obvious things, sure. Big things. Clearly 'historical' things. But in the Fifties when the city's public toilets were being torn down a curator decided this ought to be kept. Giving the museum one of the largest toilet archives in the country. There was a pavement stencil from the Covid social distancing campaigns. I'm so glad someone thought to keep it. At many stately houses they have centuries of records. I suppose they have the space. These families have shopping lists from the seventeenth century. They weren't kept for the historical value of a shopping list, they were kept for accounting. But they have…