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Save the City: a conservation study of the City of London (1979). David Lloyd, Jennifer
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The future of the past: Attitudes to conservation, 1174-1974 (1976). Edited by Jane
Fawcett. Thames and Hudson
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Village in History (1988). Jane Fawcett, Nigel Nicolson, Graham Nicholson. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd
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to preserve historic railway stations, and was instrumental in the 1967 preservation of
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