Noo how sad to read that historical buildings and statues have been demolished. Isn't there any law that forbids doing that? Although in a few cases I could understand that it is in pursuit of progress but we would have to see the circumstances.
It is a beautiful thing that parents take pictures, I was lucky that my dad when he was younger had an analog camera and we have very beautiful family photos.
The magic of photos is that they manage to unlock memories that are in us but we just don't take them into account, just by looking at a photo we can remember what we were doing, who we were with or how we felt.