Name: Bradford Football Club Annual Ball 1885
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SKU: 8308206490
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Bradford Football Club Annual Ball 1885This 1885 menu illustrates how wealthy the northern English city of Bradford was at the end of the 19th century. Hence British playwright and poet T. S. Eliot's line from The Wasteland: "As one on whom assurance sits, as a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire." The rugby football club's annual ball was a real feast. Attendees were offered five different roasts, two pies, two boiled birds and the local Yorkshire ham. There was a choice of two great

The food offering was Chinese or American

Only non-alcoholic beverages could be ordered from the menu

which remains an historic landmark and luxury hotel

They did not order a single one of the 22 oyster dishes listed herein nor did they indicate trying the dry Chateau Yquem wine for only 15 cents a glass

Daniel Nichols

The hotel's dining room

in that era

and Clovis opening other Martin Bros

many foods were made to look human

There are also another 14 specials stapled to the front of this 1940s menu

It also notes that the orchestra plays from midnight to 6am - obviously a fun place to be back in the 1950s

Each vintage menu print is accompanied by a copy of the interior menu

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