BIOS Reporter – Volume 7, No.1 – January 1983

‘Leave well alone’ is a motto which (translated into a suitably ancient language) a conservation society might be expected to make its own with enthusiasm. As a motto, there is, indeed, something to be said for it: it underlines the principal concern of all conservers – that what is good should be left alone, and that we should not seek to ‘improve’ it. Enough has happened over the last 150 years for all who care for fine organs to sympathise thoroughly with the sentiment. But how does this work in practice ? Can we turn a motto into a policy ?…