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Black top hat in leather hat box. Minor wear to underside of hat brim. Hat box exterior cracked and marked. Black top hat manufactured by C.A. Dunn & Co., with black felt band and cream lining. Lockable leather hat box, marked with initials G.C., with red satin lining. Green brush.

Black mortarboard.Board and tassles intact, with rigid structure to cap. Minor wear to fabric and minor marks/stains.

Navy wool caps embroidered with a pink 'C'. Conserved by students at the Centre for Textile Conservation at the University of Glasgow in 2015.

Pink wool cap with 'W.S.B.C.' [Westminster School Boat Club] and crossed blades embroidered. Conserved by students at the Centre for Textile Conservation at the University of Glasgow in 2015.

Navy wool caps embroidered with a pink 'C'. Top of cap is composed of 8 blue triangle and small button on the top. The interior of the hat contains a twill woven black liner fabricated utilizing a circle centre component and rectangular section creating the dome shape. Label inside states “M. Broadhurst - AHH” Conserved by students at the Centre for Textile Conservation at the University of Glasgow in 2015.

During the renovation of Liddell’s, 19 Dean’s Yard, this pair of shoes was discovered beneath floor boards close to a fireplace on the second floor. They have recently returned from conservation at the Museum of London. The Curator suggests that they are late nineteenth century, fashionable shoes, probably bought in the second hand market and then repaired on the sole, with iron horseshoe heel reinforcements fitted.

Northampton Museum coordinates the survey of ‘concealed shoes’ and their index of finds lists well over a thousand examples. Of course there are a number of shoe superstitions: they are symbols of authority (Old Testament); they are linked with fertility (tied on the back of wedding cars); they are associated with good luck (witness holiday souvenirs in the shape of a shoe). Statistically the finds in buildings are often associated with chimneys or fireplaces. They cannot have been a casual dumping: shoes were an expensive item of clothing. Stories suggest that removal of shoes from a house brings bad luck. There appears to be some association with the devil. Some earlier types of shoes were so narrow and pointed (some were actually called the Devil’s Horns) that it would be easy to believe that the devil was pinching you, a suggestion today’s women may well understand. This may reinforce the idea that the devil can be lured into a boot/shoe. There was a fourteenth century belief that Sir John Schorne, rector of North Marston, Buckinghamshire, conjured the devil into a boot. His shrine was a place of pilgrimage until the Reformation, and several pubs in the area commemorate him. The superstition may well have grown that the evil in a house is collected and contained in the shoe, and if it is removed evil and chaos can roam abroad...

Black pre-tied bow tie with pink stripes. 100% silk, lined. 21st century. Unworn and unmarked. In original packaging.

Navy necktie with repeated pink Westminster School crest motif. Manufactured by P.L. Sells. Lined, polyester.

Purple, pink and black striped necktie. Manufactured by Mrs White [A.J. White (Hatters) Ltd. 8, Burlington Gardens LONDON W.1]. Unlined.