- government-financed conservation organisation with enormous legislative power over what happens to both old and new buildings;

- so named because of the quasi-Edwardian dress and languid manner affected by certain members of English Heritage: possibly apocryphal;

- the Cream Suits much dislike people replacing original fenestration with inappropriate modern alternatives, particularly if the replacements involve plastic;

- the process of protecting a building deemed to be historically and architecturally important by "listing" it in one of three categories. English Heritage oversees this process.

- centre of Britain's ceramics industry (home of Wedgewood, Royal Doulton, Spode, etc) and once famous for coal-mining, steelmaking, etc;

- Titian-haired, loose-breasted, early 30s presenter of TV gardening programmes much loved by middle-aged , middle-class British men;

- serious, Scottish presenter of current affairs TV programmes and the conservation programme "One Foot in the Past". Not an object of nationwide male lust;

- independent British conservation organisation, 100 years old, famous for saving collapsing country houses and opening them to the public - but mostly ignoring cities and modernism;

- a.k.a the Prince of Wales, heir to the U.K. throne. Became involved in architecture in the mid 1980s, was critical of modernism, launched an architecture magazine (now closed) and an architecture school (now a research foundation). Has not spoken publicly on architecture for many years;

- Middle English word, much used especially in the north of England and Scotland, meaning "silly, weak-minded, insane" (Chambers);

- Arthur Scargill, leader of the coalminers' union and a bogeyman of the 1970s and early 1980s when a miners' strike could cripple the entire UK. The mining industry has now been privatised and shrunk to an insignificant fraction of its former size and power;