Bradford Football Club Annual Ball 1885 1955 Keep your Eye upon the

Keep your Eye upon the Doughnut And not upon the Hole

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

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inviting people to dine and dance at Muff's Club

Bradford Football Club Annual Ball 1885 1955 Keep your Eye upon 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