From Barrie Bertram.
WRONG postcode and, thus, no heritage questionnaire on my doormat.

Still, that won’t prevent me commenting, not least because the reader may need reminding that Jersey’s heritage is also ‘shared’ with the expatriate Islander community, in the event that this fact has become forgotten.

Bearing in mind the lack of an available questionnaire, your summary of the thousand or so responses, ‘A mirror on ourselves’ (JEP, 10 July), seemed to indicate that respondents were focused on the physical assets of the Island’s rich heritage; the castles and forts, Hamptonne, the museums, the scenery and so forth.

These are indeed important elements and worthy of funding. But, has the set of responses resulted from the way in which individual questions were framed, or whether individual respondents simply saw the Maritime Museum, for example, as a nice place to take the kids on a wet Sunday afternoon? One would, therefore, question whether the human aspect of our heritage has been adequately considered in the process to date.

For example, nowhere in the summary was mention made of, possibly, the most important intellectual heritage asset in Jersey, the Archive, and yet its value is demonstrable as shown in your item, ‘Our famous ancestor’ (JEP, 16 July), on Zeno Swietoslawski. It also requires funds.

Fortunately, Philip Le Brocq, in his letter on Jersey Heritage (JEP, 17 July) chooses to roar and not squeak, and again reminds the reader of ‘the men and women who made Jersey’s maritime and agricultural history’.

I would add that there are numerous other aspects that should be squeezed into that statement between ‘Jersey’s maritime’ and ‘agricultural history’, not least ‘military’, but then I am, of course, biased.

It is vital that the physical assets are preserved and properly funded, but it also requires that the endeavours and deeds of Jersey-folk down the ages, whether undertaken at home or beyond the Island’s coastline, are properly recognised. The former has little value without the latter.