heirlooms

Those who love it, like the Cockney Modern Festival organisers, say it is an artisan food with recipes handed down throughout generations "like precious family heirlooms".

Matt Fustini, who lives in the town of Largo, has never evacuated before, but this time is prepared to leave with the bare essentials: cash, fuel, insulin for his diabetic mother and irreplaceable family heirlooms.

Mr Blades became one of the best-known faces on British TV after The Repair Shop launched in 2017, with members of the public bringing their treasured possessions and heirlooms to be fixed.

It’s the sentimental items — family photos, her music collection, VHS tapes of her late parents, family heirlooms — that are hardest to think about.

Worse, he said, they burned down his "sanctuary" - a small two-room outbuilding which contained all of his books, his own poetry, his late mother's possessions and his family's identity documents, records, heirlooms and photographs.