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|London became home after a long ship from Jamaica. Those early years still echo in my bones. One fact I learned the rough way: those old trunks are memory made solid.

On the voyage that bent time in half, that battered storage trunk held our world. Belgium steel rolled strong and stubborn. The lid smelled of oil and salt.

Modern eyes skim the surface, those trunks earned their weight. Every mark told you where the past had slept. Look at the queues of families with their lives in boxes.

I made a small home in Brixton, and it held fast like a parish bell. A toy car that squeaked: the trunk turned clutter into story.

Then another chapter found me. Once a year the tents rose overnight and changed the air, metal storage trunk and the posters glued to walls advertised elephants, acrobats, jugglers, and those painted clowns. You could feel it before you saw it. Wagons rattled the kerbs, and the smell of sawdust hung in the air. It was a jumble of sound, light, and promise.

I found another trunk in those years, and I just stared. Across the front was a hand-drawn clown, upside down. It wasn’t decoration. It carried the hush of a different age. Not just timber and iron, but a fragment of the travelling circus.

The old workshop where I keep it still hums. I see it tucked beside a pole, stuffed with costumes and props, waiting for the show to begin. Each bruise and nick suggest roads and rain and rough travel. You can almost smell powder and brass.

And then a pixel waved to grain. A digital print crossed my path, and the image mirrored my clown chest. It felt like a new stitch pulling old cloth. The skew of the grin, the way colour sank into wood matched line for line. For a moment I wondered if the artist had seen mine. Light to fibre, eye to hand: the ghost was the same joker.

People now call trunks storage, yet once they moved whole families. They were built heavy and honest. Solid frames, steel corners, brass hardware. Some wore brass corners or painted letters. Inside is more than capacity, you meet a journey. Close it again and it keeps the secret.

These days I see trunks in Shoreditch windows. Turn them into a TV stand. Some call it cheap vintage trunk, but I call it honest. A trunk doesn’t stop. If you pass a market and the lid winks, don’t turn your nose at the scar. Take home the box that understands time, and let it carry you too.

Sometimes I set the Windrush trunk beside the circus trunk. One knew fog horns. I oil the hinges and listen. They don’t even sit in the same time, but together they make a chord. That’s how story learns to stand: in weight.

You can say I kept a career of remembering. Sometimes I think it infects a room until every shadow hums. When I speak on trunks, I’m not selling romance. Windrush to ringmaster, the seam holds and flexes.

So I leave them where I can see them, and I feel the room answer. Metal warms. And every time I pass, the upside-down clown catches my eye, as if asking when the tents go up again. And when I can smell rain in old mortar, I think I hear a dock call and a trumpet answer, and I remember the only lesson worth the weight: a trunk is never empty.

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