James Middlemass & Co. — Boys’ Outfitters — found under the floorboards

n <a href="https://duncanstephen.net/getting-a-kitchen-and-study-renovation-done-during-lockdown/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">my post about our kitchen renovation</a>, I mentioned that we’d found something interesting under the floorboards. It was this booklet, a “Boys’ Outfitters” catalogue for James Middlemass & Co. <img alt="James Middlemass & Co Boys' Outfitters - catalogue cover" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/0*KTLpflN_Q5CgVyIF.jpg" style="height:888px; width:700px" /> It’s not entirely clear, but we reckon this catalogue might date from the 1880s. Since our tenement building was built in the 1880s, it was probably either left there accidentally during construction, or dropped through a crack in the floorboards by an early resident. <a href="https://duncanstephen.medium.com/james-middlemass-co-boys-outfitters-found-under-the-floorboards-48c40520e45f">Learn More</a>