If you ask me, The Repair Shop has a lot to answer for. Here is just one example, taken from daily life at Dear Towers.
In our garden we have a bench. Nobody in the family can remember where it came from. We suspect it might have come with the house, in which case it is very old indeed.
It should probably come with a plaque: On this bench in 1672, King Charles II stopped for a rest, opened his packed lunch, and immediately ordered that his