From Ships To Pubs: A London Story About Storage Chests
I still think about when the circus came to town once a year. Posters glued to walls promised elephants, fire breathers, acrobats — and always clowns. Looking at the trunk feels like it was there backstage, stuffed with costumes and props, best storage trunk waiting for the show to begin. When I first stumbled across the circus clown trunk, I stopped in my tracks. The painted face staring upside down across the front felt like more than decoration. It felt like a memory of a lost world — an old fairground life.
Chests aren’t just containers. They’re time capsules. Before cheap mass storage appeared, trunks were the way people travelled. Built solid, heavy duty, antique chest - check here, sometimes decorated with brass corners or painted lettering.