ABSTRACT
This chapter is an experimental account of a walk with a single individual around sites of affective and historical significance to him. It is a purposeful re-centring of heritage away from monuments and official meanings, towards the lifeworld of a single individual. Using extensive transcripts and commentaries, the chapter shows how autobiographical, family, and historical memory interconnect to or flow through one another in his stories, and the profoundly emplaced, embodied, and sensory dimensions of heritage. ‘Minor’ and ‘major’ heritages flow through one another in the participant’s stories and reflections as we walk together. Change, for example to the urban environment, and loss are important themes within the chapter, but they are held in dialectical relation to continuities between past and present in the lifeworld of a person.
