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, best storage trunk stuffed with costumes and props, waiting for the show to begin. Old buy storage trunk - my company - boxes aren’t just places to keep things. They’re keepers of journeys. Before suitcases rolled through airports, trunks were the way people travelled.

Built solid, heavy duty, sometimes decorated with brass corners or painted lettering. When I first laid eyes on the circus clown trunk, I just stared. The red-nosed clown staring upside down across the front felt like more than decoration. It felt like a memory of a lost world — an old fairground life.