From Ships To Pubs: A London Story About Storage Chests

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Trunks aren’t just places to keep things. They’re time capsules. Before suitcases rolled through airports, 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 storage trunk feels like it was there backstage, stuffed with costumes and props, waiting for the show to begin.

When I first laid eyes on the circus clown trunk, metal storage trunk I froze for a moment. The hand-drawn clown staring upside down across the front felt like more than decoration. It felt like a piece of a lost world — an old fairground life.