Alan Middleton, collector of rents Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Benjamin Bloomfield and others sit

Benjamin Bloomfield and others sit around a table with glasses of whisky in their hands

Singer of the group Culture Club Boy George (right) celebrates after winning the Daily Mirror Readers' Award for the outstanding music personality with Alison Moyet of the pop duo Yazoo

Pentonville Hill

Monday 24th April 1972

In the 1860s the fashionable shape started to change

Alan Middleton, collector of rents Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Benjamin Bloomfield and others sitAlan Middleton, collector of rents, 15th century, (1910). Alan Middleton, a collector of rents for a monastery, wears bag sleeves, and has a penner and ink horn hanging from his girdle. Illustration from British Costume during 19 Centuries by Mrs Charles H Ashdown, (London, 1910).