Living: The Uffington White Horse. Created from

chalk during the Bronze Age, it was only obscured once,

during the Blitz. Now owned by the National Trust.

Living: Guy Fawkes, whose effigy is burnt atop

a bonfire to remember the gun powder plot of 1605.

He jumped from the gallows to avoid being hung,

drawn & quartered. And thence broke his neck.

In perpetua: Frederick Austerlitz.

Photograph by Martin Munkacsi.

Extinct: Really tiny windows, for retaining 

cool air in summer and heat in winter.

Living: Cash's woven labels. Identifying school 

uniforms for generations, Cash's began as a ribbon 

manufacturer in 1846. Now the last survivor 

of the Coventry silk weaving industry. 

Calgary, Canada, 1926.

Volendam, Holland, 1929.

Oppheim, Norway, 1910.

Bilbao, Spain, 1917.

Roscoff, Brittany, 1920.

Reims, France, 1917.

Dunkirk, France, 1917.

Ross, Ireland, 1913.

St Ives, Cornwall, England, 1913.

Ancient Industries will be Abroad for a

fortnight. Postcards will be dispatched daily.

All photographs by Albert Kahn.

Extinct in Europe: The VW Camper

(1950-1979), available only in Brazil.

Dad's grey socks available everywhere.

Via beyond, deux, and heather ross.

Living: Swiss Alps and red gingham.

Cooking apron available at Ancient Industries.

Photograph of Ava Nancy by Kendra Wilson.

Living: The Shrimp. 

Ancient Industries poster girl for autumn.

Photograph by Terence Donovan.

Living: Pet graves. A quirk of the Egyptians, 

the practice was revived by the Victorians. 

Photograph by Kendra Wilson.

Remembered: Irving Penn's portable studio,

easily assembled in Paris, London and New York

for photographing the small trades in 1950.

Extinct: Pure elegance. 

Irving Penn 1917-2009.

Living: A mystery jug. Dated 1780 yet

the style is more akin to Osbert Lancaster.

Displayed at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.

Killed off by dye: The carbro print. Created in 1868,

this carbon/bromide process used pigment, which made

the colour as stable as that of the frescoes of Pompeii.

Photographs by Nickolas Muray/George Eastman House.

Living: The Nerfertiti bust at the

Neues Museum. Made in Egypt c. 1330 BC.

Or, very possibly, Germany, 1912.

Living: 'I Know Where I'm Going was given its

name by Frankie, who was travelling with me on the

Number 9 bus to Piccadilly Circus. I told her Emeric's

story between Hyde Park Corner and Green Park.

"You ought to call it I Know Where I'm Going,"

she said, standing up to get off at Piccadilly.

"Why?"

"Because of the song," and standing there in the

swaying bus she sang it:

I know where I'm going

And I know who goes with me

I know whom I love

But the dear knows whom I'll marry.

We were opposite Fortnum and Mason.

I said, fascinated:

"Is there any more of it?"

She nodded.'

--From A Life in Movies by Michael Powell.

Living: Menorca. A Mediterranean neolithic 

civilization invaded by Romans, Vandals, Moors, 

Turks, British and French before becoming Spanish. 

Invaded again by the British in more recent years.

Timeless: Emmanuel Sougez, 1889-1972.

A modernist French photographer who captured

the beauty in traditional household objects.

Living: Coney Island. First named Land Without Shadows 

by the Lenape tribe, the Dutch called it Conyne Eylandt 

because of the abundance of good conyne* hunting.

Top photograph by Robert Benton.

*bunny

Endangered species: Grandparents. Vital in 

the family dynamic since primitive man, their 

active roles have been in decline since WWII. 

Photograph of 4 grandparents by Saul Libman.

Living: Thonet. Steamed bent wood and 

cane furniture created in Germany in 1830.

Photograph by Rowland Wilson.

Extinct: The window awning.

Energy-free cool, replaced by the air

conditioner, mid-20th century.

Extinct: Spats. Miniature blankets worn on

the outside of shoes. Mothballed after WWI.

Too rare: The syphon bottle. Created in 

France in 1829, this re-usable bottle, essential 

for ejecting fizzy seltzer water, became a flea 

market curiosity in the 1970s.

As good as: The parasol. Portable shade

depicted in the sculptures of Ninevah (1800 BC), 

largely discarded by the mid-20th century.

Extinct: The champagne coupe. Said to be 

inspired by the shape of Marie Antoinette's breast, 

it currently mimics the shape of a cow's udder.