Bradford Football Club Annual Ball 1885 1955 Among the dishes – steak

Among the dishes – steak with anchovy butter

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

McCoy Tyner

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

Bradford Football Club Annual Ball 1885 1955 Among the dishes – steakThis 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