Bradford Football Club Annual Ball 1885 Jazz and the privileges of the

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The Trocadero

menus and table-toppers were all used as marketing tools for restaurants and bars

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Bradford Football Club Annual Ball 1885 Jazz and the privileges of theThis 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