At that time Blackfriars Road was dotted with booths, the sort of booths one finds at a fair - Fattest Women in the World, Women with Two Heads, Pig-Faced Women and so on. We had not the money to go in, but we could stand outside and listen to the showman's patter, and look at the raucous pictures.

Grant Richards, Memories of a Misspent Youth, 1932