In Floyer's door it was said, entire teams of athletes, pastry chefs and lap dogs could be concealed during the span of their years. Excessive publicity generated excess curiosity and sadly it became accepted that anything that moved in the crevices could be teased out with a sharpened pencil, much to the amusement of parties of travellers. How would you feel if you were milking, or dibbling, or creaming and you were winkled out? The lower row of images are from the 1893 Family Album. They are • a Chinese football team once highly succesful in the Isthmian Timber League • a Territorial Volunteer reading a magazine with pictures of naked breasts (female) while his Boot Black looks on. • A Scratch Band called "I haven't been Well..." after their catch phrase, carrying the extemporised instruments made from metal fragments discovered in the door.
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