That granite facade and stoic gait makes them very forbidding although that's no doubt in part due to the use of local building materials and the weather. Definitely function over form and even this brutalist fanboy fails to see to very little that appeals to the eye.
Ahh the cards would be perfect keepsakes but the as our generation ages, the question of what to do with a digital legacy will become more of an issue I guess. At least it's easy to store.
Kippers and jellied eels for a little cultural integration :-)