Bradford Football Club Annual Ball 1885 1955 This 1940s menu from the

This 1940s menu from the hotel’s Canary Room restaurant shows a cowboy-booted chef lassoeing canaries

Among the dishes – steak with anchovy butter

There was another outpost in Hollywood

inviting people to dine and dance at Muff's Club

Boston in the 19th century was a thriving city filled with taverns

Bradford Football Club Annual Ball 1885 1955 This 1940s menu from 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