Crowd gathers to watch a clown in a bathtub pulled by 4 geese. What happened next wiped the smiles right off their faces

Crowd gathers to watch a clown in a bathtub pulled by 4 geese. What happened next wiped the smiles right off their faces

Clowns may not be everyone’s cup of tea but for people in Victorian Britain, the prospect of seeing one sail up river in a bathtub pulled by four geese was too alluring to resist. In Great Yarmouth, a crowd had gathered on a suspension bridge stretching across the river Bure to watch the ridiculous spectacle, but their joy and laughter would soon turn into pain and anguish. In 1845 a large crowd had gathered on the Yarmouth suspension bridge to …