From Ships To Pubs: A London Story About Storage Chests

I still think about when the circus came to town once a year. Posters glued to walls promised elephants, fire breathers, acrobats — and always clowns. Looking at the trunk feels like it was there backstage, stuffed with costumes and best storage trunk props, waiting for best storage trunk the show to begin. Chests aren’t just wooden boxes. They’re keepers of journeys. Before cheap mass storage appeared, durable vintage trunks with storage were the way people travelled. Built solid, heavy duty, sometimes decorated with brass corners or painted lettering.

When I first saw the circus clown trunk, I just stared. The painted face staring upside down across the front felt like more than decoration. It felt like a memory of a lost world — an old fairground life.