Bradford Football Club Annual Ball 1885 1955 There was another outpost in

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Among the dishes – steak with anchovy butter

We have not yet been able to identify exactly where this menu came from – there were several Mayflower restaurants during this era

inviting people to dine and dance at Muff's Club

Keep your Eye upon the Doughnut And not upon the Hole

Bradford Football Club Annual Ball 1885 1955 There was another outpost inThis 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