Down The Pub: A Cockney Tale Of Old Storage Trunks
Chests aren’t just wooden storage trunk (Recommended Web site) boxes. They’re time capsules. Before cheap mass storage appeared, trunks were the way people travelled. Built solid, heavy duty, sometimes decorated with brass corners or painted lettering. I remember 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, vintage trunk stuffed with costumes and props, waiting for the show to begin.
When I first saw the circus clown trunk, vintage trunk I just stared. The painted face staring upside down across the front felt like more than decoration. It felt like a fragment of a lost world — an old fairground life.