The Heirloom Project by Joakim Blockstrom - in pictures

Mayumi Hirata’s camera, which belonged to her grandfather in Osaka, Japan Photograph: Joakim Blockstrom

Alexis Turner’s stuffed crocodile, a gift from his grandfather that inspired an interest in taxidermy Photograph: Joakim Blockstrom

Ian Pendleton’s diver’s watch, a gift from his parents after saving his sister from drowning
Photograph: Joakim Blockstrom

Suzanne Stankus's doll, Cassie – her mother's first doll Photograph: Joakim Blockstrom

Owen Gale’s Rotring pens remind him of his father, who died when he was a boy Photograph: Joakim Blockstrom

Elise Dumontet played with her grandmother's pin cushion as a child and later inherited it Photograph: Joakim Blockstrom

Rosie Nicholls has her grandfather's Roberts radio, which reminds her of happy afternoons spent in his sunroom Photograph: Joakim Blockstrom

John Wyatt-Clarke’s sermons, written by his father who was a born-again fundamentalist preacher Photograph: Joakim Blockstrom

Gary Cook’s toolbox was inherited from his craftsman father, Michael Stanley Cook, who died when he was 14 Photograph: Joakim Blockstrom

Stan Chick, 13, was given his grandfather's Leatherman sailing knife and uses it now that he is also a keen sailor Photograph: Joakim Blockstrom/Other